Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three Days of the Condor. Always use the back door. You never know, you may slip out for lunch one minute and return the next, pastrami and mustard in hand to find all your office mates spread across their desks, covered with blood. Meek and mild-mannered Robert Redford, who...
An aide watching the normally mild-mannered Glenn said later: "His lips were blue they were so tight. If I know my man, that's just going to steel his determination to insist on his view of adequate verification." If so, Rosalynn Carter's rebuke may have been...
When he is not saving the world from the likes of Doctor Octopus or the Vulture, Spider-Man, for instance, worries about more humdrum problems-like his dandruff and allergy attacks and how he is going to get a date. Dr. David Bruce Banner, the mild-mannered physicist, agonizes over...
These inflections of form, historical allusion and context work well in small buildings; so far, their main testing ground has been houses for the rich. Can one see a similar shift in corporate buildings? Not yet. The "new" corporate look, however, is strongly mannered. It was developed by Johnson-Burgee...
The working-out of the crime has the mannered artificiality of an Agatha Christie thriller, which seems surprisingly like Nabokov's own mannered artificiality. The only blunder comes at the end. The police have surrounded the alpine chalet where Hermann is hiding. In the book, his mania produces the...