Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must congratulate you on the completely dispassionate, logical, objective and impersonal manner in which you presented the facts in the Chessman dilemma...
...above him, the little visitor made his way down a 150-yard red carpet, past the lines of severely correct Frenchmen in cutaways. Then, standing on a carpet that had originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox hat, her arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters...
...began to wave, and one morning he boldly cried "Buon giorno!" In time Nina found the courage to say "Buon giorno" too, and occasionally she and Salvatore would even hold a brief conversation. After two years of this, Nina began wearing her long hair tied severely back in the manner of the married women of the town. She and Salvatore, she decided, were engaged...
...stir up mass support for a new Opposition policy, Gaitskell closeted himself with his intellectual friends, and when he belatedly sallied out late last month, it was to set forth his views at a few university meetings in his most pursed-lipped "if-I-may-venture-to-say-so" manner...
...example." But five years ago, he looked again, changed his mind, and pronounced him grandfather of abstract impressionism (a phrase for the softer side of abstract expressionism). To honor grandfather, the Modern last week opened a stunning, 119-landscape show that began with postcard-like seascapes in the manner of Boudin and ended with the wide, conflated color vistas Monet drew from the depths of his private water garden 50 miles from Paris in the last years before his death...