Word: manner
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...leader, definer, advocate, etc., Gingrich developed a series of ideas as large as his ambitions. His thinking was thoroughly schematic--in the manner, for example, of self-help books like Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, in which the banalities are broken down and presented as "steps" and "affirmations" and hence made easily digestible to the hungry hordes. Such books, in fact, seemed to be Gingrich's main source of inspiration as a thinker. He was mad for lists and jargon. In speeches and seminars he spoke of the triangle of American progress, the nine zones...
Conrad John Schuck and Kay Story make a delightful pair as Daddy Warbucks and Grace, Warbuck's secretary, in the second half of the first act. Shuck's deep voice and stiff manner are a perfect compliment to Story's soft femininity, and although the set design for the Warbucks mansion is a bit much--The Nike of Samothrace looms in one corner, while Picassos, Mattises, Rembrants and the Mona Lisa also make appearances--it does produce a few chuckles from older members of the audience. Rooster Hannigan, played by Laurent Giroux, and his accomplice Lily St. Regent ("like...
...Crimson should be ready for the Hartford attack. Throughout the season the Crimson has played defense in its usual stifling manner, not giving up more than two goals in any one contest...
...genuinely funny interchanges as Tommy (innocent and sincere to the point of incredulity) gets knocked around by McCormack and her teenage son, both of whom run in faster lanes than he. When the son (Ryan Reynolds ) walks in on a steamy moment, Tommy tries to apologize in a fatherly manner, but finds that the son (a worn veteran of libido) takes good-hearted revenge by describing past sexual exploits that leave Tommy speechless...
...called upon once again to serve their country. One only needs to read one of the other inscriptions on Anderson Bridge to recall that peace is never easily won and must always be treasured: "On either side of the river there was a tree of life which bore twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations...