Word: mannerized
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...members of their response teams through a cascading notification system that first tries office numbers, and then drops down to cell, home, and pager numbers to organize a team conference. If someone cannot be reached, there is a designated alternate that the system tries to contact in the same manner...
...followed her visit with greater interest, it seemed, than the still influential but greatly diminished John Smith. He wrote a letter to King James' wife, Queen Anne, urging her to receive Pocahontas in a manner befitting her status as Algonquian royalty. Uncomfortable months passed before Smith summoned the courage to call on Pocahontas. What followed was a heated, if not altogether tender, scene. Pocahontas turned her back on Smith, refusing for more than two hours to speak. When at last she did, she gave him a piece of her mind, telling Smith he had betrayed her people and upbraiding...
Daisey said the reaction came as a surprise and that despite the frequently contentious nature of his performances—his work touches on abortion and Scientology—no audience had ever protested his work in this manner...
...smell prevented me from resuming my nap, I half-heartedly picked up the romance novel I’d purchased on the way out, and pretended to read. When all manner of wiping and discarding had ceased, I thought I was home free, until, of course just my luck, “24D” decided he was going to make things up to me by engaging in conversation. Fuck...
...influential over those decisions than more pragmatic figures such as Larijani, who convenes the key foreign policy decision-making body, the National Security Council. In the end, though, there is a "decider" - the supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But Khamenei wields his authority carefully, and in a consultative manner, seeking to maintain the unity of the competing factions of Iran's political class. So, while he is said to pay greater heed to the counsel of more pragmatic advisers such as Larijani and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Supreme Leader is careful to accommodate the popularly elected President Ahmadinejad...