Word: mannerize
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...women were exploring relationships andexploring one another in a very healthy manner,"he says, "but people weren't meeting one another,shaking hands and leaping into...
...apartment search, we did not have the luxury of concluding in such a manner. My roommates and I were told that if we didn't put money down on an apartment we liked today, it would be gone. Four other people were lined up to take it, the clock was ticking fast. "You are not going to find another one like this for the money. If you like it, you should take it now," the broker said. We were told we could not say, "Wait, we need more information...
...went to this amazing class where everybody sat around and the teacher didn't say anything, and then we all behaved in a particular manner. People would keep quiet for the first 50 minutes, and then in the last 10 minutes people would all start talking. And then there would be times when people would decide to all go and meet outside the classroom in one of the nearby country-side places. Later on, at the end of the class, we'd read a book which showed that everybody had behaved in the same way that we had, and that...
Easy for us Americans to say, of course. We already have power, indeed, the pre-eminent power in the world. And we've had it for a half-century. No wonder our elites are so bored with it, so enamored of treaties and conventions and all manner of devices that bind the world into a community of exemplary self-restraint, so contemptuous of mere striving for power and so shocked when that atavistic urge explodes in India, taking their cozy little illusions with...
...Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. Holbrooke already enjoyed a reputation for being overbearing and peremptory--qualities that were to prove indispensable at Dayton--and he is forthright about being no shrinking violet, engagingly quoting unflattering references to himself. "If I were to operate in a routine manner," he writes, "I might make fewer enemies... " His narrative provides a compelling account of a life-and-death negotiation--the personal dynamics, the theatrical gestures, the unexpected snags and exasperating misunderstandings, the leaks, the need to empathize with the very real concerns of the protagonists, and the grinding labor...