Word: manneredness
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But there is always Venice itself; one can leave the Biennale, visit the Accademia or St. Zanipolo and find relief from the stale and mannered exhaustion of the New in the perpetual freshness and vigor of the Old.
III. Alpha Males--Another error of previous taxonomies has been to preserve the outmoded category of the "jock." The Alpha Male embodies most of the same characteristics: he is loud, blockheaded, ill-mannered, boorish, rude, undereducated and dipsomaniacal. Not all "jocks" (that is, recruited athletes) are Alpha Males, and though...
In the besieged Metropolis of network television, mild-mannered shows are too often expected to be Superman. Barry Levinson, the acclaimed director of the films Diner and Rain Man, was commissioned by NBC some time ago to develop a TV series based on David Simon's book Homicide: A Year...
Fonteyn spotted him quickly after his 1961 defection. His entry into the Royal Ballet is legendary. No one had ever seen anyone of his primitive, utterly uncompromising power, and they were awestruck. For Fonteyn it was an extension of a great career. For the well-mannered, well-schooled dancers it...
Is Thomas McLarty, Bill Clinton's kindergarten classmate, just too nice a guy to be White House chief of staff? At first that appears to be the case: the mild-mannered McLarty greets a visitor with an open, guileless smile, an almost whispered hello and a courtly bow more suited...