Word: demeanors
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Head coach John Kerr also recognized Akpan’s abilities, especially a composed demeanor that has helped him to goals against both Ivy League and international opponents...
...personality, and the attitude he takes," says Birand. Educated in the U.K., Gul has made a name for himself in recent years as a moderate politician, well-liked by diplomats, who is keenly in favor of Turkey's bid to join the E.U. As long as he maintains that demeanor, his election today could yet mark the decisive end of a turbulent chapter in Turkish politics, not the beginning...
...bemoans the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God - tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have...
...Even as McCain vowed to return to "the part of campaigning that I love the most"-reconnecting with voters face to face-his own face and demeanor showed the strain of trying to resurrect his campaign and his hopes. But he warmed noticeably as he engaged in a question and answer session with the crowd of 130 who attended the Chamber of Commerce lunch, stopping only when longtime aide and consigliere Mark Salter, standing at the back of the room, began gesturing at his wristwatch...
...aunt's sanguine demeanor is a lesson that I will carry in my mind from now on. Unpleasant events are out of human control, and it is necessary to accept the good along with the bad. As the protagonist of the unsuccessful existential comedy, “I Heart Huckabees,” remarks, "No manure, no magic...