Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tired-looking man with a gentle, precise manner, Sakharov emphasized the significance of the campaign of democratization and the need for it to continue. The political situation in the Soviet Union is complicated, he noted, and there is certainly opposition to the reforms. But he told us that he considered Gorbachev an able politician whose chances of success in overcoming the opposition he considered good...
...moment of truth arrives. A runner leads another novice and me into a room with a booming echo, from which the whole building is likely to hear me. I try to act blase before the other actor and the director, who in a friendly manner explains what the play is about and what is happening in the scene we are to read from. He asks the dreaded question: "Which of you would like to go first...
...suspected that Kohlberg committed suicide after a severe parasitic infection he contracted 15 years ago while traveling in Central America recurred. LaMonica reported that the manner in which Kohlberg's car was found, as well as the items within the car, led him to "strongly suspect that Kohlberg took his own life...
Tracing the parable of the indelible personae, so to speak, of the quote unquote natural habitat, if you will, in which he indigenously resides, one may assume, in a manner of speaking (or, more specifically, in the manner in which I am speaking, ha ha), obstinate indifference at best, and ornamental pejorativity at worst, as it were...
...Margaret Tracey, 19, who joined the company only eight months ago, and her partner, Jeffrey Edwards, 22, a veteran of not quite two years. The world of Fragonard may never have existed, but these two created it in their performance, Tracey with her perfect placement and polished gaiety of manner, Edwards with his ardor and already superior partnering...