Word: mannered
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...Manner v. Manor...
TIME, page 21, Sept. 5,' 1927, under "Death of Strachey," says, "Mr. Strachey was, to use an old English expression, 'to the manner born...
...When it comes to manner, alas, Miss Sontag can be as exasperatingly pretentious as anyone in the not overly humble world of cultural punditry. Her work abounds in self-contradictions. She is a girl almost without a sense of humor; yet she made her reputation with an article on the high frivolity of 'camp.' She is a part-time novelist [who writes] ... like a grim translation from the German: 'By literary genre,' she observes, 'I mean a body of work belonging to literature considered as an art and to which inherent standards of artistic excellence pertain.' She is the kind...
...first to use them. He won the Super-G and giant slalom - two speed events where the gates are spaced more widely apart than in ordinary slalom - by the unheard-of margin of more than 2 sec. each. Endowed with boyish good looks and an easygoing manner - he's known to enjoy a few beers after a race - Miller has a huge fan following, especially in ski-mad Europe. Top European skimakers like Atomic use his face to sell their products. A Swiss poll conducted last month even rated Miller the most popular skier of his generation among...
Zana Briski is soft-spoken and rather shy of manner. Willowy of frame, stout of spirit and compassionate of heart, she naturally possesses the qualities shared by the best photojournalists. But even by the standards of that difficult craft, the assignment she imposed on herself a few years ago was formidable. She would live in the brothels of Calcutta, India, and record the lives of their inhabitants, particularly the prostitutes' children...