Word: mannerize
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...often justice must be served in a slow and deliberate, not swift and sure, manner. When society makes the grim decision to put an individual to death, when it terminates its end of the social contract with a human being who has broken his side of the deal, society must proceed as deliberately and as scrupulously as possible. The value of capital punishment lies not in easing the pain of the victims' loved ones but in providing society with a tool that it can use, in exceptional situations, to destroy the absolutely irredeemable...
Goodman says that he chooses to ask for help in a selective manner. To an observer, then, RSI may appear to be a selective problem, he says. They may think injured people decide when they are hurt and when they need help. This situation, Goodman says, unfortunately breeds a distrust for people with...
...that what I wrote (Commentary, Nov. 13) was so inflammatory. But as the issues he raises are very important, I will try to respond in brief. I will not deal as thoroughly with the "facts" he puts forward--they are partial truths at best--but rather will discuss the manner in which he characterizes our efforts...
Bode's clients are also contesting the manner in which the NSF and NSI are planning to spend the registration and renewal fees already collected...
...course, it's all awful and criminal, what was going on, but apart from the barking-at-the-gate-in-Macbethness of the scene, it is breathtakingly hilarious. If Nixon had understood that the key to his historical resuscitation lay in the hilarity of his corruptedness--his voice, manner, language, his crooked sincerity--he wouldn't have wasted all that time writing books. The advantage in having a funny presidency is that people will always think of it fondly, no matter what they were laughing at. The mere act of laughter is heartwarming, and eventually they recall only that...