Word: manner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...research supports) that they have largely made up their minds about a candidate within the first five minutes of meeting him or her. Important "first impression" indicators? Arriving on time, a firm handshake, sustained eye contact, a warm smile, good posture, and introducing yourself in a relaxed and confident manner...
...certain sluggish weariness both physically (a little too prominent eye wrinkles) and in delivery. At times, she seems to be shouting her lines (even accounting for her character's abrasiveness) without much conviction. Like-wise, Sanders, while manifesting a certain irreverent charm, was more often smiling in cheerful, bovine manner than giving any punch lines...
...work was quite brief: it lasted from 1961 to 1965, after which he moved on to other subjects and themes. The motif caused considerable offense, to the point where LIFE magazine nominated him as the worst artist in the world. But it enabled him to play with all manner of saucy ironies and In jokes, and in any case he never copied anything; each image underwent fastidious tweaking, reshaping and restyling. "Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece!" a blond woman exclaims to a clean-cut young painter in Masterpiece, 1962. "My, soon you'll have...
Pitt's character, both in writing and in performance, is similarly underdeveloped at first. We get the image of an inexplicably angry young man, unsatisfied with his family and domestic associations. Pitt's gruff, distracted and distant demeanor, his clipped and uncompassionate manner, is convincing he is by no means likable. In fact, as the audience does not identify or sympathize with him on his pre-Tibet misadventures, the movie's first half seems aimless, and Annaud dangerously skirts the edge of alienating the audience by depriving them of something to latch onto...
...great so far," said Robert Bruce, a teaching fellow in the class. "I think the students have been able to tie together the textbook with section work in a more efficient manner than before...