Word: manneredness
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As Rose's mild-mannered suitor, Short delivers his lines with an endearing relish, and his vain, half-hearted attempts to appear dastardly and evil at Ruddigore Castle are subtly humorous in contrast to the dastardly quality of Despard. Though Short has a pleasant singing voice, he suffers by close...
Nevertheless, the stubborn nationalist seemed to be holding his own last week in a tense confrontation with Gorbachev over Lithuania's effort to break away from the Soviet Union. Day after day the two fought a battle of communiques. The struggle reaffirmed a fact that has become increasingly clear since...
While Harrison Ford and the multi-million dollar Indiana Jones saga have glorified archaeology as a pursuit of mild-mannered archaeologists say their jobs are often fairly pedestrian.
"And at the same time, there was this shy Harvard student--I knew he was a Harvard student by the fact that he was so well-groomed, so well-mannered. He didn't interact at all, but you could tell he was listening, taking everything in. At the cash register...
Lord's quest to learn how a whole generation could have "thought it glorious to humiliate their elders . . . to report on family and friends; to storm strangers' homes; to hurt fellow Chinese without consideration of sex or age; to maim and kill" netted her two interviews with former members of...