Word: manneredness
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Master of Ceremonies Christopher Reeve, the mild-mannered actor who donned tights for three "Superman" films, auctioned off items donated by businesses and celebrities to about 450 black-tied and bejeweled bidders at the posh Charles Hotel in Harvard Square.
What had long worked for the Globe's 400 editors and reporters was the style of Thomas Winship, a gregarious charmer who ran the paper like an Irish pol for two decades before stepping down last year. Janeway, by contrast, was introspective, a cerebral, tautly mannered journalist who had worked...
When not at the zoo, we return to the boarding house in which Snow lives to watch a variety of odd and lonely people attempt to interact with each other. Tension in these scenes centers on Snow's impatience with a fellow boarder who fails to clean the various messes...
To rebuild the battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post...
Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture...