Word: manneredness
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When, as a youngster, Hugh Jackman crossed the street on his way to school, he would doff his little blue woolen cap to the drivers who stopped for him. It's not that he is excessively well-mannered, although he is, or that he grew up in a particularly genteel...
A lacquered paper fan provides style and comfort to the subtle and well-mannered women who carry them. The paper is thin and delicate, just like you pretend to be as you attempt to trap a good man and lure him into marriage.
But it was Chirac doing most of the kissing up. After both receiving and relinquishing Mrs. Bush from his embraces, the French president landed a juicy European greeting on the First Lady’s hand. The New York Post, that bastion of journalistic integrity, characterized the affair with the...
One of five children born to devout Chinese Lutherans, Jimmy, as he was known at Jonathan Dayton High School in Springfield, N.J., was a champion wrestler, an ace student and "a low-maintenance guy," according to his coach. A high school teammate recalls his wiry, 100-lb. friend as "well...
Keillor described people in public life as "well-mannered and respectful." Well-mannered and respectful politicians? Hardly. Sarcasm and ridicule are the manners most often employed. In fact, Keillor's Essay is little more than disdain and hardly an example of civility and good breeding. There's nothing factual in...