Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threatens Americanism far more than any number of immigrants--legal or illegal--possibly could. By interpreting laws to suit its own interest and by acting in an arbitrary manner, the INS challenges the ideals of equal justice and due process...
...combines elements of traditional jazz but she presents the music in a personal manner with contemporary sound. She also has a great sense of humor in her music," he said...
...with a pragmatic one on international affairs. They are nearly all gone now, shunted aside by the more populist conservatism of the Age of Reagan. One of the last of that breed, the soft-spoken, easygoing Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, is leaving the Senate in exactly the manner in which he served there: with quiet detachment and dignity...
...Europeans believe that World War III would be inevitable if there were no strategic deterrent protecting them. The idea of relying exclusively on conventional weapons distresses them, especially those who remember World War II. These are matters that should be considered in detail, if negotiations resume in a realistic manner and are not based on a Star Wars fantasy...
...Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner" was not that of a neoexpressionist but of a virtuoso; his drawing lacks the tenacity of an Eakins, let alone a Cezanne, yet it was drawing of a high...