Word: manneredness
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"Obviously," the soft-spoken, mild-mannered Berndt says, "we were ahead of schedule."
The easy-going, mild-mannered coach--who all Penn officials credit for the historic turnaround--points out that when the Quakers first won the league crown in 1982, the seniors and juniors on that team were recruited and admitted in the pre-Berndt-Hackney era.
The only problem for Robert is that Antonio has been writing letters in Robert's name to his ex-girlfriend for the past forty years. These letters paint an incredibly heroic portrait of the mild-mannered American, a portrait that not only grossly exceeds his present stature, but mocks his...
As well mannered as she is, Baldrige remains an articulate critic of misplaced pretension. Wine, she notes, is one subject that often seems to inspire such affectation. When drinking a restaurant's simple house wine, Baldrige advises, "don't discuss its pedigree or lack of one; just drink it and...
The real peculiarity of his figurative style is that it manages to be both precise and ungraspable, for its distortions of face and limb bear little relationship to anything that painters have done to the human body since Cezanne. Forms are governed by slippage: they smear sideways, rotating, not like...