Word: demeanor
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...single and video "We Are the World" sold 7.5 million copies in the U.S. and raised more than $60 million for famine relief in Africa. He wowed 'em at the Super Bowl and with spectacular concert tours whose special effects never overwhelmed the slender dude with the gentle demeanor, dervish footwork and nonpareil showmanship. If you were a star in the '80s, you'd want to be Michael Jackson...
...unusual sort of dictator. He has a down-to-earth image and calm demeanor that sit uneasily with the praise he often heaps upon Iran's militants. His austere lifestyle stands in jarring contrast to the corruption and ostentatious wealth of many other Iranian leaders." - On Khamenei's disposition. (Washington Post...
...didn't touch any of the cookies that had been served with tea: "He was a diabetic and couldn't eat anything with sugar in it." At their next meeting, the Americans brought him some sugar-free cookies, a gesture that took the edge off Abu Jandal's angry demeanor. "We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him," Soufan recalls. "So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures...
...currently, her actions as Dean reflect what her colleagues describe as a “shy and confident” demeanor...
...It’s a demeanor reflected in Smith’s former life as co-founder of the software company Liquid Machines, where co-founder Arny Epstein says Smith approached challenges in a measured, methodical way. At the last Faculty meeting, Smith compared the problem of closing the FAS deficit to “what I see when I’m designing an engineering problem...