Word: mannered
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...letters of that type. There are people who occasionally ask me about it in a manner that suggests that they might be making the moralistic fallacy of thinking that an analysis of the situation is in any way prescripted. So I’ve been fairly careful, I think, in the way I talk and the way I write to point out that that is not the case. I personally think that the less defined that gender roles are the better, because it gives people the freedom to do what they want to do. I enjoy the fact that...
...more melodramatic moments, “it’s a tribe of wild cannibals. We eat everything we can.” The arrival of Walter—a young German tutor who embodies the tormented intellectual that Clive aspires to be and the cultivated manner Louise values so highly—urges the familial culture war to new heights...
Business-school professors agree. "When a woman acts in a stereotypical way, people then evaluate her in a stereotypical way," says Ashleigh Rosette of the Duke Business School. "So, unfortunately, when a book advises a woman to be careful of the manner in which she displays her emotions, it probably is sound advice." In other words, the workplace remains a low-emotion, no-cry zone, even though more...
Zuma lashed out at his critics this week, telling South Africa's Star newspaper that the British were acting in the superior manner of a colonial master. "When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way," he said. "Bear in mind that I'm a freedom fighter and I fought to free myself, also for my culture to be respected." The African National Congress Youth League, part of South Africa's governing coalition, went even further, claiming the treatment of Zuma was fueled by racism. "These British racists...
...film a purposeful attempt to portray cancer in a less serious manner...