Word: demeanor
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...Three other boys stood out. Neil had irrepressible high spirits and a budding wanderlust. If he couldn't be an astronaut, he said, "I'm going to take people to the country, and sometimes to the seaside." Bruce, an angelic blond boy with a solemn demeanor, came from a well-to-do family but, having been exiled to a boarding school in Surrey, radiated loneliness and idealism. "My heart's desire," he said soulfully, "is to see my daddy." His father was in Rhodesia, which may have had something to do with his stated ambition to go to Africa...
...evinces a similar level of emotional rawness, reduced to screams and rantings that grow crazier with each blow. The couple’s admission of love comes two scenes later, when Vesper tends to the recovering 007. She tries to express her newfound feelings in spite of her harsh demeanor: “If all that was left of you was your smile and your little finger, you’d still be more of a man than anyone I’ve ever...
...they’ve missed in coming to Harvard in the 21st century, when there are more banks in Cambridge than bookstores. If Harvard is not to be merely a meaningful experience but a special place, do business with those handful of remaining establishments who furnish the goods and demeanor that have so long given the Square its character...
...eliciting doubtful laughs from his opposition. “Iraq was a model for stability...before the first U.S. war,” countered Rajaraman. Republican Club Member-at-Large Meghan E. Grizzle ’07 said she was “very disappointed” with the demeanor and quality of the team supporting U.S. withdrawal. But the evening’s moderator, Tim R. Hwang ’08, said the debate “went really well.” “Especially with an issue as contentious as the terms of withdrawal from Iraq...
...parrying of press questions bringing him a peculiar kind of Washington fame in those scary weeks following 9/11. Yet it was the pair of wars launched in the wake of those terror strikes that, over time, highlighted on a far bigger stage his short-sighted and subordinate-ruffling demeanor. The cracks in his management acumen began showing as the insurgency surged in Iraq in late 2003, and widened when the heinous photographs of the abuse at Abu Ghraib exploded in the spring...