Word: mannerize
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Neil Rudenstine's taller shadow, Fineberg is even-keeled and unflappable where his boss is disarmingly guileless. Fineberg is nothing if not deliberate. One colleague dubs this physician's demeanor "bedside manner." To most central administrators, his controlled manner is admirable...
...some University officials, that manner, along with the loosely defined position of provost, renders him something of an enigma...
...snowy-haired and a shade under six feet, he is not unlike Fineberg in his manner of speaking. He comes across as deliberately conversational, smooth and well paced. He gestures widely. A sense of humor is apparent. He is polished and expressive...
...things fathers can do during the birth process that makes them feel even marginally useful. (When my daughters were born, I should say on my behalf, I also sang along with the Muzak in the labor room in what I thought was a rather entertaining manner and occasionally asked my wife to dance.) I suspect that it's quite common for a father to come across a picture of his newborn baby some months after the blessed event and feel appalled that he once shoved the bizarre image he sees before him into the face of everyone he met, like...
SACCHARIN A lot of rats died to study saccharin, but so far no humans have joined them. Not only were the saccharin doses that caused cancer in the animals extremely high, but the manner in which the chemical crystallized in rat bladders simply did not occur in humans. With the risk disproved, saccharin fell from the list...