Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incongruous in their neat, Eurotrash sweaters and sleek leather pants. In fact, as singer Nina Persson revealed during the performance, their native Sweden observes Halloween not as a night of costumed revelry, but as a solemn day of remembrance, putting flowers on the graves of ancestors. If the Cardigans' demeanor tended towards the sober, the music was never less than thrilling. Judging from Nina Persson's previously weightless vocals on such vintage pop songs as "Lovefool," I never expected her fiery onstage performance. Bristling with sexuality in her skin-tight leather pants, Persson sang with harnessed intensity and a flirtatious...
...Pinochet's statement defends his junta's human rights abuses on the grounds that he was at war with dangerous Marxists. But there are cracks in the general's once-stony demeanor. "I wish things could have been different," he says at one point. His claim that his arrest is "certainly not British justice" remains to be determined this week by the House of Lords -- but it won't be helped by the fact that none of the 3,000 people kidnapped and killed by his junta ever saw the inside of a courtroom. The British take a dim view...
...Something about Harshbarger just gets under my skin," agrees Sarah Hogan, another Central Square voter. "I voted Democratic everything else, but I didn't like his demeanor in the debates, and I like to go with...
...woman who's seen and experienced everything. She has endured so much hardship that very little, if anything, will rattle her. When she firsts meets Beloved, she isn't fazed at all by her odd demeanor or her creepy voice. If it were me personally, I would have said, "Get the hell out of my house!" But the real pain ofbeing a slave woman was leaving for the fieldseach day, and working hard, and not knowing ifyour children were going to be there when you gotback. That was the real hardship. True freedom isthe ability to wake up each morning...
...barriers because there was simply no surrender in him. He bore the abuse that was the price of his success with a majestic dignity that even his most vicious detractors could never crack. Although he never courted the press, and was often criticized by it for his stoic public demeanor, he was one of the ablest politicians I have ever known. He understood that the test of political genius lies in the hard work of building constituencies and forging them into sustainable electoral majorities--something he did quietly but with dazzling results. When many of us who were first elected...