Word: manner
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...would never attempt to prescribe what another institution ought to do,” Stone wrote, “especially in the superior manner that the partial quotes in this article appear to suggest...
Biden clearly knows a lot, rattling off practical liberal-policy solutions for all manner of domestic and international challenges, but he's just all wrong for 2007. He refers to himself in the third person, calls the Russians "Soviets," leans patronizingly into people's faces and brags about passing legislation by saying "I did it with my own little paw, folks." When a young girl from the Scholastic journalism program asks him when he'll bring the troops home, he gives her a three-minute-long answer that's not really an answer...
...play so fraught with emotion and violence requires delicacy and nuance, and at times the drama is overdone. Saturninus is convincingly lecherous, and he stuns with the loud, boisterous delivery of his first lines. But when he continues to speak in this manner through the rest of the over-two-hour-long play, he begins to seem more like a ranting bore than a volatile emperor...
HANKS Let me tell you, if there's a movie called Charlie Wilson's War, guess who I want to play? [Laughter.] If it was called Wee Willy Winky, I want to play Wee Willy Winky. I can't help it. I am selfish in this manner. What--Phil's going to play...
...intricacies of nuclear proliferation can get very complicated very quickly, but under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), nations have the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes but they must do it in a transparent manner, under international supervision. Iran was, and is, a matter of real concern to the IAEA because it had been caught hiding part of its enrichment program - and because it was widely believed that Iran had a secret bomb-building program (which indeed it had, as of 2003). Even after the new intelligence assessment, Iran's uranium-enrichment program remains troubling to the international...