Word: mannerize
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...also offended by the manner in which the charges were made. Why did neither Ms. Sahyoun nor Ms. Rabie even once attempt to speak with me before publicly airing their thinly-veiled charge of racism? Why did they make no effort to get my side of the story? Why, instead, did they rely wholly on hearsay in making their very serious, very wrong accusations...
...recognize that these comments have two very distinct benefits. First, the dialogue value is extremely high. We must not underestimate the value of discussion. Castigating controversial speakers is antithetical to the Harvard experience; furthermore, holding forums in which the issues are framed in what some would call an inappropriate manner galvanizes the issue at hand. Opponents of the Muhammed/Mansfield genre of "race-speech" cannot deny that with controversy comes discussion. I contend that with discussion comes an enhanced understanding of the issues...
...these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know...
...spite to which the world often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming manner, McEwan questions the forces that govern our lives. Can we really explain the twisted landscape of human history with the neat, scientific principles we have devised? Dare we do otherwise...
...political wheeler-dealer who was Bill Clinton's surprise choice to be U.S. Trade Representative, Kantor had little experience in the acronymic arcana of GATT and NAFTA and other trade agreements. Yet he has proved a remarkably quick study, in the manner of a crack litigator mastering a complex brief. He is, by training and nature, an aggressive lawyer and lobbyist. Kantor sees himself not as a peacemaker but as a warrior who, as he puts it, "hates to lose." (Those who beat him at tennis have learned to watch out for his flying racquet.) He has represented migrant farmworkers...