Word: demeanors
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...style of liberalism grates in a way that Bill's doesn't. His liberalism seems practical, in keeping with his "can't we all get along?" bonhomie. Hillary's liberalism has a more admonitory edge, in keeping with her buttoned-up demeanor. In her memoir, Living History, she writes that she was tasked in grade school with keeping the "incorrigible boys" in line, a role that seems entirely in character. Conservatives bristle at the sense of being told what to do, and they detect a tone of moral superiority in her advocacy of children's programs and health care. When...
...that she is perpetually calculating, triangulating and cold, without core convictions. On the other hand, in several dozen interviews over a weekend in Iowa, I simply couldn't find anyone who had actually seen the debate - not even among the political junkies who attend her meetings. Clinton's public demeanor at these rallies suggested that she had taken the punch and moved on, even if her campaign briefly made the mistake of playing the gender-victim card in a clunky webcast called The Politics of Pile-On, which showed all the boys repeatedly attacking her. "Look...
...Dave MacDonald’s demeanor makes him the obvious choice for captain, Mike Taylor makes the same statement with his play. While Taylor is by no means short on advice for his teammates, his authority stems not from his words, but from his work—the smart play and grind-it-out effort he has put into every minute he’s spent on the ice in three years at Harvard...
...Seidel’s quiet demeanor belies his intense focus...
...been enthusiastic about inviting him to speak, but I was certainly dismayed at the comments” made by Bollinger.Leach’s concern for academic courtesy is characteristic, colleagues say, of a nature that displays more of the professor than the politician. “His academic demeanor made him stand out,” said Christopher Cox, current chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a 17-year Republican member of the House. “He always wore sweaters.”Leach, who accepted a one-year appointment at the IOP in September after...