Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shultz, a mild-mannered and courteous man who nevertheless argued his free-market principles with surpassing stubbornness, came to that authority by his loyalty to the President and skill at tacking; he is the last member of the original Nixon Cabinet still in high office. Shultz was dean of the...
Bob Goodenow, captain of Harvard's hockey team, is ordinarily mild-mannered even after an important game. After Wednesday's victory over Dartmouth, however, the Crimson's star right-winger could not contain his feelings about the shabby treatment Harvard had received from the fans in Hanover.
Shrill Opponents. A mild-mannered ear, nose and throat specialist, Hopp, along with his board, was accused by the grand jury of amateurism and weakness in the face of attack by "small, shrill groups of opponents." The report pointedly suggested that "more than mere citizenship be considered as qualification for...
In a production that is stilted, mannered and ludicrously stylized, Director John Barton appears to have rummaged through Peter Brook's wastebasket for directorial inspiration while scanting Shakespeare's genius.
From The Ginger Man on, J.P. Donleavy's novels have been simultaneously cruel, sentimental, repetitive and sporadically funny. Donleavy heroes are ridiculous figures who wallow in self-pity behind their mannered fronts and anesthetize deep personal hurts with sex and alcohol. Like Cornelius Treacle Christian, the errant knight in...