Word: demeanor
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...said. “But in part that jived with the format that she set up, which was for us to talk to her rather than for her to talk to us.” Greenfield said he was impressed with the incoming president’s demeanor. “More than anything I was impressed by the time she spent with us and the earnestness with which she listened to what we had to say,” he said. Faust, whose daughter, Jessica M. Rosenberg, graduated from the College in 2004, said she was looking...
...about to drown in the Tigris now," says the carpenter, "I will not reach my hand out to save him." In Khadamiya, too, the narrative about Aug. 31 has changed. Karrar Hussein, 28, was crossing the bridge when the stampede began. Ask him about al-Obeidi, and his cheerful demeanor quickly turns sour. "That is a myth," hisses the cell-phone salesman. "That person never existed at all. He was invented by the Sunnis to make them look good." Rather than jumping in to help, he claims, the people of Adhamiya laughed and cheered as Shi'ites drowned...
Kirkland’s pleasant demeanor, however, may have ultimately led to his downfall. According to Gomes, Kirkland lost disciplinary control because he was “so nice.” In 1823, student riots and fights broke out over who was to give the commencement address. In a not-so-nice move, he expelled half of the senior class...
...comics are a sight gag in themselves. Waraday's meek demeanor is spiced up with wacky neckties. Aaron Freeman is an African-American Jewish convert who looks as though he just swung off the movie set of Pirates of the Caribbean. The third comedian is Yisrael Campbell, a former Irish-Italian Catholic who became an orthodox Jew. Campbell appears on stage much as he dresses every day around the Holy City - wearing a long black coat, a hat and a Moses-like beard. Black-suited Hanania has the broad-shoulders of a grizzled street tough, either in Chicago or Gaza...
...closed doors. The staff at the Radcliffe Institute, where Faust is currently dean, remained mum, though four staff members were seen milling in front of Faust’s office shortly before the workday ended. Standing in a group, rather than working at their desks, their demeanor suggested that something had happened during the day, but all refused to comment. Radcliffe’s official spokeswoman, Whitney Espich, said only that Faust was not in Cambridge that day. Faust’s whereabouts proved difficult to pin down: an evening call to her house on Brattle Street revealed that...