Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance, a friend of Carter's for more than 10 years, served as Georgia highway commissioner when Carter was Governor. His country-boy manner masks a shrewd, tough mind. Says New York Republican Barber Conable, ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee: "Bert does a lot of talking about being a country boy. You know that kind-when he shakes your hand, you had better count your fingers." Cabinet members who appealed to Carter to restore Lance's cuts in their budgets were rebuffed. Says Jordan, no pushover himself as a bureaucratic infighter...
...lacked the dazzle of his flamboyant predecessor, but his low-key, almost reticent manner and his quiet sense of competence impressed his hosts. By his very visit, so early in the new Carter Administration, he restored momentum to the long-stalled peacemaking process. At Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport he proclaimed that his would "not be an easy task nor one which is quickly achieved." But he arrived in the Middle East when hopes for peace were higher than at any time since...
...words, sometimes referred to as nouns, sometimes as adjectives or adverbs, which convey a kind of idea-in-sound and add emotion or vividness to the dimension of a description. They are often onomatopoeic, but convey aspects that are not necessarily associated with sounds, especially in English--such as manner, color, taste, smell, silence, action, condition, texture, gait, posture or intensity. To students of theoretical syntax, the serial verb construction found primarily in certain West African languages is of great interest. There exist many other interesting aspects of the languages of Africa, that are most instructive and worthwhile to philologists...
Fellini has kept the color-indeed, heightened it-but drained away the life. He seems to have fastened on the legend only to repudiate it. Seen through his hostile lens, Casanova is a chilly fop whose salon manner is alternately tongue-tied and bombastic. How such a creature manages to charm so many women into the bedroom remains a mystery. Nor, once he gets them there, is it easy to see how they can derive much fun from the groaning calisthenics he puts them through. This is a film that earns its R rating not by making sin enticing...
Fell argues elsewhere that Phoenician voyagers populated their American colonies with Iberian workers whose "rude manner of life" accounts for the lack of sophisticated material objects at the sites he says they occupied. Nevertheless, these hypothesized, uncultured people supposedly learned to read and write the Phoenician language. Fell says the inscriptions they left prove this...