Word: mannered
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...coconut palms, weeping figs and streams, the Sarojin, www.sarojin.com, could just as easily be a private tropical estate as a resort - and that's perfectly appropriate, given its namesake. A figure from Thai folklore, Lady Sarojin was the eldest daughter of a nobleman and renowned for the exemplary manner in which she ran her father's household. There's certainly a familial intimacy about the resort, which consists of just 56 suites, sequestered amid national parkland an hour's drive from Phuket Airport. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...
...major label would decide that this was a happening song, but that they wanted Pat Boone to do it instead!” As a practitioner and a professor of music, Monson embodies a certain working philosophy: study music in all its implications and glory, in as ethical a manner as possible from her given social position. Or, as Monson puts it, her goal is “to teach how music links to larger social issues—and why all these crazy people have been so passionate about jazz...
Ultimately, though, Summers’ brusque manner, honed during his years in Washington, ran afoul of faculty members and administrators who found his style too blunt and autocratic...
...Ultimately, too many of today’s entrenched interests felt threatened—justified or not—by Summers’ vision, or by the manner in which he sought to bring his vision to fruition. That was his ultimate undoing...
...house of Society Zeta Alpha, one of Wellesley’s four literary and theatrical societies. The first half hour feels distinctly like a thirteenth birthday dance. While boys are present, they are outnumbered almost three to one. As the girls danced and let loose in a manner fitting for a slumber party, the boys lingered on the wings, hands in pockets...