Word: mannerize
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...entirely fun and games. While it attacks high learning, the army the aristocracy, government, casinos and law enforcement with clever sarcasm and wit, it also portrays slavery and prostitution with the same humor. It pokes fun at Catholic priests, Jews, New World Indians and others in a racially offensive manner. Some of the characters in particular, such as the Dutch shipmaker Vanderdendur, the New World governor and the Old Lady, rely on stereotypical accents and mannerisms as well. There is also rather graphic scene in which Cunegonde is nearly raped by a soldier. Certainly, there is a tradition...
Richard Wright says in How Bigger Was Born that "the environment supplies the instrumentalities through which the organism express itself, and if that environment is warped or tranquil, the mode and manner of behavior will be affected toward deadlocking tensions or orderly fulfillment and satisfaction...
...confused and a little lonely. Mary Elizabeth is a homemaker married to her childhood sweetheart, a construction worker. She has a son and a daughter. The show's strength lies in the way these two grownup women fight and play and envy each other's flawed lives in the manner that actual women...
Maxim, to its credit, will have none of that, or only a little. It is ironic about its dumbness in the manner of a show like South Park, which is to say that the irony is often barely discernible, white noise for a generation that likes to laugh unapologetically at poo and look at pictures of breasts without feeling that Patricia Ireland is peeking over anyone's shoulders. In its British form, like competitor FHM, Maxim is what is known as a "laddie" magazine, the periodical of choice for soccer hooligans. Its real secret is that virtually all the articles...
...days? I can envision a richly paneled and heavily chandeliered room in a grand building. French and English diplomats are glaring at one another from either end of a long mahogany table, their stony silence broken by an occasional aggressive sniff. Another diplomat enters. He has a conspicuously soothing manner. He's an American. You can tell because he's carrying a bottle of disinfectant...