Word: manner
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...evening last week a few moments before curtain call, Mahdi and the other actors lounged backstage while an actress with platinum blonde hair and a heavy application of kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
Drew Gilpin Faust’s rise to the Harvard presidency has come under fire from the National Association of Scholars (NAS), which expressed concern this week over the Radcliffe dean’s “strong feminist bent” and the manner in which she would make personnel decisions. Stephen H. Balch, president and founder of the Washington-based group, said that he feared that Faust would push to use gender and perhaps racial criteria in hiring and tenure decisions. “The greatest worry”, Balch said in a statement...
...monks also played large drums held vertically by red handles, their mallets curved in the manner of bows. The use of instruments, beautiful in its own right, served to highlight the monks’ richly developed vocal ability, while the occasional chanting of mantras quickened the pace from that of the dominant seven-beat liturgical texts...
...vampire drains blood from its victim. That act has a predatory intimacy. The contact of fangs on neck is erotic - a deep, dirty first kiss, and the prelude to fatal sexual enslavement. Hannibal Rising isn't nearly that much fun. It doesn't, in the manner of its hero, take a bite out of you. The movie is more like a blood drive where you go to donate your pint and nobody takes the needle out and you're strapped to the gurney unable to do anything but watch your life drip away. It's that kind of movie: enervating...
...million in 2005. "It is not a humanitarian crisis," a senior Administration official said in a briefing last week. "There's a difficult economic situation in some places, even more acute than others. But overall, I think that the international community has been able to distribute assistance in the manner in which it said it would about a year ago." Still, some private aid groups question the complicated mechanism's effectiveness, claiming that it costs more money and takes more time to get the much-needed aid to the Territories...