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"mannered" Definitions
  1. (disapproving) (of behaviour, art, writing, etc.) trying to impress people by being formal and not natural synonym affected
  2. -mannered (in compounds) having the type of manners mentioned

876 Sentences With "mannered"

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"We're just boring, mild-mannered shrinks with boring, mild-mannered patients who talk about life's troubles," Dr. Sacco said.
Despite the weaponry and arson, it's a well mannered affair.
I was certainly raised to be polite and well mannered.
He's recorded an album so mannered it's cute and heartening.
"He's mild-mannered, he doesn't scream, he doesn't yell," she said.
And in fact, all of [the Kardashians] are very well mannered.
But Hall's Chubbuck is no quirky oddball or mannered, actor's exercise.
He is well mannered, well dressed, self deprecating, confident and aimless.
He was well mannered and believed in the importance of collaboration.
As usual, his characters speak in an overly mannered, forthright way.
Now the mild-mannered Mr. Merkley is having a breakout moment.
Mr. Hallberg, by contrast, has grown more conventional and more mannered.
He reminded me of a well-mannered guy from the South.
But the threat roused Mr. Northam, 57, a mild-mannered physician.
Yet so much of the choreography is trivial: preening, mannered, insubstantial.
Can Nathaniel Mary Quinn sustain such a highly mannered, identifiable style?
It's technically and formally dazzling, but it's also mannered and somewhat inaccessible.
"His kids were beautiful, sweet children — well-mannered, as well," Gonzalez said.
She is faithful, mild mannered, and a silent presence in most situations.
He is a mild-mannered politician and man, a stereotype of Canadians.
Councilman Diep goes about his day like any mild mannered civil servant.
The bespectacled imam, a mild-mannered family friend, speaks with uncharacteristic steel.
As much as his mild-mannered nature will allow him to, anyway.
Justin Bieber as a well-mannered superhero might just be our kryptonite.
TONY EVERS, Wisconsin's incoming governor, is a conciliatory and mild-mannered sort.
At the convention, the usually mild-mannered, retired Marine four-star Gen.
Their well-mannered outcry shows how attitudes towards Singapore's past are shifting.
This noble shepherd/Chow Chow mix is well-mannered and super smart.
Later in the evening, the station offered a very well-mannered apology.
Almost all of them have been well-behaved, well-mannered, good people.
The mild-mannered Pieters morphs into an animated character on the course.
Voters began to see her as an even-mannered and classy candidate.
This is as aggressive as the generally mild-mannered Dr. Soutphommasane gets.
Even the mild-mannered Bing Crosby was briefly persuaded to try one.
Würger's writing is mannered; it often has an otherworldly, fable-like quality.
Few expect that the mild-mannered Mr. Moreno can sustain his success.
Here came the Sunday school Cincinnatus: a mild-mannered dermatologist, Baptist deacon.
" Antonio Tajani, the normally mild-mannered president of the Parliament, interjected. "Mr.
He was cleanshaven and well mannered with a little rebel yell underneath.
Johnny (Eugene Levy) is the mild-mannered businessman patriarch of the family.
MARTíN VIZCARRA, Peru's mild-mannered president, knows how to spring a surprise.
"[They were] the most polite, well-mannered kids," Trahan wrote on Facebook.
An hour later, I was introducing him to my ill-mannered terrier.
But the mild mannered Norwegian seemed to say it was going pretty well.
You are a mild-mannered guy who cares about the rule of law.
Dearer oil is more an ill-mannered guest than a harbinger of doom.
But he shapes a compelling and credible portrait of a well-mannered hysteric.
They often demand that Black women be mild-mannered, sexually pure, and ladylike.
After "Mary Tyler Moore," Engel got more mileage from her mild-mannered persona.
And when he does, he doesn't abandon his shyness and mild-mannered demeanor.
Gareth Southgate, the English team's mild-mannered, magnanimous manager, has no such problem.
J: Tex was the mildest-mannered, most polite human being you've ever seen.
And he reminded him what an intelligent and well-mannered boy he was.
The David is a Plymouth sedan driven by a mild-mannered traveling salesman.
In addition to his mannered architectural shots, Kogonada likes to shoot into mirrors.
Today's show examines how a mild-mannered ophthalmologist became the ruler of Syria.
Wells is generally a well-mannered critic, if not an overly respectful one.
This time, it's mild-mannered Devin who takes issue with Luke's unflattering name-dropping.
That vigilante is later revealed to be the exceedingly well-mannered sorority sister Jules.
Things opened up for me, lyrically, and the songs felt less mannered to write.
Does the mild-mannered actor know his Hero for Hire from his Con Air?
It's time for these mild-mannered dorks to rise and take back our country.
But now, I can't stop listening to these calm, well-mannered people speak Japanese.
The mild-mannered lawyer from Wisconsin is caught in the middle of a firestorm.
She's incredibly sweet-mannered and docile and likes to sit coiled around my wrist.
But Tunnard's film is rawer and less mannered, more openly comic, and more agonized.
What do the cute, mild-mannered pets have to do with federal tax policy?
That call for tech support could get even the most mild-mannered person upset.
One day, a mild-mannered Welsh bartender decided she wanted to breed a racehorse.
They'd all be in, every one of them was so polite, so well-mannered.
And they tend to be mild-mannered folk who don't garotte too many dissidents.
We couldn't believe that such a well-mannered dog didn't have a real home.
These two mild-mannered lads were about to become Reigate's answer to Daft Punk.
In late March, however, the paddock hummed with mild-mannered hybrid and electric cars.
These two mild-mannered lads were about to become Reigate's answer to Daft Punk.
Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary, I am looking for New York's Truly Good-Mannered Man.
The mild-mannered Remigino was not expected to qualify for the six-man final.
Rihanna is no an ill-mannered theater-goer — she's just an exceptionally supportive one.
Mr. Turner is the rare male jazz singer with no time for mannered nostalgia.
Mohammad "was likable and mannered towards his family and the community," the uncle said.
She's very quiet, gets her makeup done, sits quietly, she's a very well-mannered girl.
By day, I was a mild-mannered employee, dutifully getting my assignments done as normal.
And although the 4S gives the impression that it's fail-safe, it's almost too mannered.
It is pleasant, trendy and staffed by well-mannered herb enthusiasts, known as "bud-tenders".
"In real life she's very mild mannered, easy to get along with, easygoing," Hayden says.
The overall effect is that you've just been naturally gifted with full, well-mannered brows.
What does a mild-mannered dad dream of conquering when he hits his late-fifties?
But relations between the blunt-mannered nationalist and the blue-blooded Mr Wickremesinghe soured quickly.
Many people in Hong Kong regard the three mild-mannered, bespectacled men as political prisoners.
"Good morning, sir," said an impeccably mannered gentleman in a neatly pressed British Airways uniform.
Meek and mild-mannered -- at times, even polite -- is how one Kalamazoo official described him.
Toward the end of the movie, Jane, a third, mild-mannered "alter," enters the mix.
Sarkozy's main rival, mild-mannered former prime minister Alain Juppe, calls Sarkozy's campaign strategy "suicidal".
He has five children and a mild-mannered demeanor, more soccer dad than psycho killer.
THE SOUND This covers collection is elegant and warm, exceedingly mannered but also keenly felt.
Apparently not all of Cornell's singing groups are as mild-mannered as Here Comes Treble.
Mr. Saccone, a mild-mannered Air Force intelligence veteran, aggressively linked himself to Mr. Trump.
But many of today's flamenco stars go beyond Nureyev in their magnificently mannered stage comportment.
They were well-mannered, much better than what had come before, and hard to remember.
The mild-mannered daughter of missionaries, Rea had devoted herself to her bright, inquisitive son.
The man, Cornell Lockhart, 67, was known to be mild-mannered and in declining health.
Mr. Colyer, more mainstream and mild-mannered, served seven years as Sam Brownback's lieutenant governor.
As ruthless as cicada killers are with cicadas, they are quite mild mannered around humans.
Amiably cool and mild-mannered, Mr. Fluevog, 70 and from Vancouver, British Columbia, doesn't disagree.
You didn't feel like he was putting on a show or that it was mannered.
You flourish with a partner who's considered charming and well-mannered, and has good taste!
FACES OF FEAR Two adjacent booths jolt this somewhat sedate fair with bad-mannered figuration.
And it is in the subtle turn toward viciousness, however mannered, that Colman really shines.
Mr. Rice, mild-mannered by nature, fought the deal and warned against such aggressive tactics.
He was quirky and well mannered and definitely made an impression on the women, she said.
Not satisfied with this mild-mannered approach, Audrey takes a hammer and bashes her head in.
"He was very mild-mannered and she is like a force of nature," the source said.
Sal, who his father described as mild mannered, was caught in the middle of the melee.
Even the smallest thing can set off mild-mannered complexions, like sleeping on a hotel pillowcase.
The campaigns of the two main parties were generally mild-mannered and at times painfully polite.
The bloc led by Iraq's mild-mannered prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, came second, with 51.
Still, adapting a mannered—and often bawdy—European art form to local tastes is a challenge.
What about your big-hearted but foul-mouthed friend, or a well-mannered but distant acquaintance?
What was most striking on "Today" was the way Clinton turned on the mild-mannered Melvin.
A late order or missing item will send the most mild-mannered customer into Cujo territory.
I didn't ask how much he's worth, and he's too well-mannered to bring it up.
" After their meeting, Putin described Trump as "a well-mannered person and comfortable to deal with.
Keep an eye on Carson himself -- a mild-mannered candidate who hasn't attacked in previous debates.
Crowley, who's widely seen as friendly and mild-mannered among Democrats, was not available for comment.
Politicians are well-mannered in front of voters and employ others to do their dirty work.
She didn't know how to walk in her heels, her voice seemed strained, her gestures mannered.
It was a well-mannered, unassuming sandwich of lightly breaded chicken, buttered bun, and two pickles.
Some of the potentially most offensive scenes turn up, uncensored, in the mild-mannered HBO film.
At the same time, her language often becomes so mannered as to verge on the comical.
Author Alison Roman shuns mild-mannered foods and favors crunchy, citrusy, smoky, and otherwise bold flavors.
His sexless marriage has left the otherwise mild-mannered Southern gentleman prone to fits of rage.
" After their meeting, Putin described Trump as "a well-mannered person and comfortable to deal with.
The fact that Mr. Castro had been typecast as mild-mannered has grated on his campaign.
They're a bit too enjoyable to be vanitases, but a bit too mannered to be enjoyable.
Carell is a charming, maddening enigma, mawkish and mannered but always, somehow, a magnet for empathy.
His physical prowess is a terrifying contrast to the mild-mannered, cerebral personality we've already seen.
The fact-checker, a presumably mild-mannered figure, suddenly took on the menace of an interrogator.
"The Daily" podcast explores how Mr. Assad went from mild-mannered ophthalmology student to brutal ruler.
The calm-mannered Valverde is known for an attacking style that should fit well with Barcelona.
"Behind this mild-mannered facade, they're a bunch of wild and crazy Presbyterians," she added, laughing.
I just think that generally Mike is mannered and serious and Donald is bombastic and emotional.
The 5-Star leader, Luigi Di Maio, called on parliament to impeach the mild-mannered Mattarella.
Danny Garcia is mild-mannered, determined, businesslike, and happy to let his results speak for themselves.
Among Brazilians who favored respectful, obedient, and good-mannered kids, four times as many chose Bolsonaro.
In a recent campaign ad, the mild-mannered lieutenant-governor described Mr Trump as a "narcissistic maniac".
Yet currently those traditions look mannered, tepid, inhibited, while much about the week's repertory looks crazily misguided.
As configured, you're getting a well-mannered and well-equipped SUV suitable for six adults for $46,690.
She's different, and she's gracious, and she's lovely, she's well-mannered, and she's thoughtful, and it's authentic.
Superman, or Superdiva, had turned back into her original identity, an engaging, mild-mannered piano-bar entertainer.
Yet their artistry isn't mannered or overly studied; it's cerebral — but casually so, lived-in and unshowy.
Or at least, a very nice and well-mannered Sean Paul clone (dibs on the screenplay idea!).
Finally, writers may be mild-mannered, but everyone likes to get fighting mad once in a while.
He is the mildest-mannered of the talkative group; he leaves tantalising, sometimes deferential, pauses in conversation.
And this is the point at which mild-mannered space junk experts improbably morph into techno-visionaries.
She's sophisticated but not mannered, and emotion, be it melancholy or delight, reads easily in her voice.
But by setting a calm and well-mannered example, you can prompt them to follow your lead.
Grace is a sensation, a celebrity even, in large part because she's a young, mild-mannered woman.
Honestly, inciting mostly mild mannered San Diego fans to egg your headquarters is itself quite an accomplishment.
Seyed Emami was a thoughtful, mild-mannered man, a sociologist and patriot with a love of nature.
It is the voice of a mild-mannered civil servant — cerebral, courtly, deferential and exquisitely self-conscious.
How did a mild-mannered ophthalmologist become a ruler who uses chemical weapons against his own people?
Nor does her singing ever feel mannered, although her bright lyric soprano is a superbly trained instrument.
Although he is more mild-mannered than his father, he has a trace of the family braggadocio.
What had brought me — a mild-mannered Mormon grandmother and a children's book writer — to this place?
"He was a kind, respectful, well-mannered man," said a woman who declined to give her name.
Our podcast "The Daily" explores how Mr. Assad went from mild-mannered ophthalmology student to brutal ruler.
Even the most likable and well-mannered among us can still look like jerks in an email.
Here and there, I struck up amiable conversations with well-mannered men from all over the country.
This is far from being a "mild-mannered reporter at a great metropolitan newspaper" like Clark Kent.
Unfortunately for Michael Bennet, it's 2020 and his mild-mannered personality and centrist platform haven't broken through.
The president's remark caused an unusual international incident between the United States and a mild-mannered ally.
It's been an eye-opening experience for Buttigieg, a mild-mannered candidate who seems allergic to bragging.
Cantor was a hard-line conservative, but mild-mannered in affect, and perceived as soft on immigration.
The sexual power of rock n roll was a riot to the more mannered big band generation.
Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) is the cryptic, cool-mannered mastermind behind the elaborate theme park of Westworld.
Gofman might be a mild-mannered voice of reason looking to work together, but his supporters are furious.
Or had times changed so that not even the most mild-mannered dissent could have stemmed the tide?
Accompanying them is Malcolm (Clark Carmichael), a mild-mannered novelist with whom Anna has forged a comfortable marriage.
Kaine, who it turns out, isn't just a mild-mannered nice guy, was a breath of fresh air.
Entertaining foreign journalists (a rare event) at his farm east of Kinshasa, the capital, he is mild-mannered.
But there is no heavy hitter to speak up for Remain beyond its mild-mannered chairman, Hilary Benn.
But the un-killable Hulk -- or at least his mild-mannered human analog -- has now been brought down.
The tone may be apt for a post-communist world caught in aspic; it can also feel mannered.
Yet even with a relatively small population of well-mannered, approved bots, conflict was constant, complex and variable.
As a pop move, Assume Form proves mainly that old habits die hard; it's oblique, fussy, reticent, mannered.
One row with Mervyn King left the mild-mannered Bank of England governor bashing the table in fury.
For all his volume on set, Esmail is "extraordinarily mild-mannered," Slater tells me over the phone later.
Salim is a polite, reserved guy – the kind of well-mannered young man mums always seem to like.
He is very quiet, very soft-spoken, very well-mannered and got a lot of grace in him.
Here are some of Mr. Trump's greatest hits against the mild-mannered brain surgeon who now supports him.
Felt, however mannered their music may seem on its surface, were masters of writing these sorts of songs.
Trump boasted about winning the former GOP candidate's backing during an unusually mild-mannered CNN debate in Miami.
There's an urban legend about an erudite, well-mannered man that does the rounds on various internet forums.
You can't control someone else's behavior but you don't want to be provoked by someone's ill-mannered attitude.
The playful chemistry between Thompson's well-mannered house dog, Lady, and Theroux's bad-boy street dog is infectious.
On his first foreign trip, Mr. Trump was mild-mannered in the Middle East and blunter in Europe.
" On several occasions, Stone's mild-mannered attorney, Robert Buschel, stepped in to urge his client to "calm down.
In Monday's interview, the mild-mannered Meadows said he is cordial with Ryan but not a close friend.
With his popularity ratings stuck behind Mr. Moon's, the usually mild-mannered Mr. Ban began bridling at criticism.
"Righteous women are gentle, mild-mannered, and meek particularly in the company of men of authority," Dushku writes.
It takes human form, sometimes as that nice, mild-mannered man behind the desk of a hotel lobby.
Even dating back to the shitty MIDI days of Bejar's work as Destroyer, there's always been hints of the lounge music's simple tranquility, as well as yacht rock, and the mannered 80s style known as sophisti-pop, the practitioners of which were themselves indebted to the mannered horn players before them.
So, how does this mild mannered and seemingly humble zookeeper feel about being in the limelight as of late?
Pence's solid experience, mild mannered demeanor and message discipline provide a balance that may reassure uneasy Republicans and donors.
Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, Indonesia's mild-mannered president, has said that he will "crush" groups that imperil pancasila.
The elder Sattar, now 58, was a seemingly mild-mannered postal-service worker raising his family in Staten Island.
He can still be a superstar, but he's got to be a mild-mannered superstar from here on out.
The kind of story a plucky filmmaker would love twenty years from now: mild mannered booksellers become pirate librarians!
As well mannered as she might like to appear to be, Joan "Mommie Dearest" Crawford is capable of darkness.
But for mild-mannered amphibian retailers who don't want to break the law, there's a very tangible economic impact.
Make America Great Again in this case would be Make Mild-Mannered Humiliated Conservatives Like Mike Pence Great Again.
Every inch of it has to have a function and every flick of the wrist, mannered or involuntary, counts.
"I'm a pretty understated, mild-mannered guy — she's over the top, she brings a lot of energy," he says.
The mild-mannered Republican, who did not seek reelection in November, was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
But those gains evaporated steadily in ensuing months as the mild-mannered Schulz failed to drum up voter enthusiasm.
A quintessentially Russian officer (imposing, loud and well mannered), he escorted the girl out and then turned to us.
In the play, a lector, well dressed and well mannered, reads to workers rolling cigars in nineteenth-century Tampa.
Mr. Pence, more formal and mild-mannered than his rival, seemed frustrated by the fusillade coming from Mr. Kaine.
The mild-mannered Northam defeated a more liberal challenger in his own primary — Tom Perriello, who had Sanders's backing.
BB-212, well-mannered, respectful astromech droid, knows the protocol of a royal greeting when such an occasion arises.
The women's thin, mannered frames, bulging with exaggerated bellies and bloated breasts, stand upright in a feat of strength.
We've been complaining about it since the beginning of time — Plato famously ranted about disrespectful and ill-mannered youths.
Ms. Saldon said she could feel herself falling in love with the soft-spoken and gentle-mannered Mr. Agha.
With nothing mannered about his brash performance, he managed Lear's stubbornness, madness and grief convincingly, without grand theatrical flourishes.
On these shores, those same qualities have often been greeted, with sneers or shrugs, as showy, shallow, mannered, pretentious.
He was mild-mannered and long married and had earned wide respect as a dermatologist in his hometown, Tuscaloosa.
He is fifty-seven, bespectacled, mild-mannered, and quick to blush, and he has an understated sense of humor.
Olivia is by nature, and probably due to my sister's parenting, a well-mannered, polite and charming little girl.
That's being well-mannered for the sake of a quiet life (and because we all want to be liked).
Tracy and her college dean hubby, Andy (Bill Pullman, looking every inch like a well-mannered college dean named Andy).
Unlike many vice presidential running mates, the mild-mannered Pence was not tapped as the attack dog in the Nov.
" Obi Henderson, who knew Means from a nonprofit he founded to help young people, described the teenager as "mild-mannered.
Sam could have been captured by Baron Von Triumph (mild mannered Matthew Broderick), the motorcycle-driving cannibal terrorizing Daybreak's teens.
Successive Thai governments have long fostered public adulation of the monarchy—an easier task under the king's mild-mannered father.
It's the image of Canada as a tolerant, progressive, kind and humanitarian nation, populated by mild-mannered and polite people.
Clark's righteous, aggressive personality is offset by Christopher Darden's (Sterling K. Brown) mild-mannered exhaustion with the broken legal system.
In February King Muhammad sent the mild-mannered prime minister, Saad Eddine El Othmani, on a conciliatory tour of Jerada.
Allies say Najib is a mild-mannered gentleman with a wry sense of humor who loves golf and his cats.
When it comes to President Barack Obama's undeclared war against ISIS, the normally mild-mannered senator can sound borderline uncollegial.
Oh, say can you see Dr. Drew Pinsky -- mild-mannered radio and TV doctor -- singing like Boccelli, Domingo or Pavarotti??
In just a few years, well-mannered self-driving robotaxis will share the roads with reckless, law-breaking human drivers.
The way she says "daddy" is so mannered it almost comes across as a parody of what the Blossoms represent.
Charges that Pepper is too superficial and too mannered, implying a standard of authenticity for rock, barely deserve public redress.
"Laverne & Shirley" also starred Cindy Williams as Shirley, indelicate tomboy Laverne's more well-mannered apartment roommate and brewery co-worker.
What struck us — other than how adorable it is — is just how well-mannered this lovely creature proves to be.
As a baby, he was "mild-mannered," never having tasted a cookie; things changed after his mother baked a batch.
They're mild-mannered and courteous in public, so someone else has to do the dirty work of winning for them.
Instead he issued a mild-mannered tweet shrugging off the defeat: "A win is a win," he wrote Tuesday evening.
When not in speed-demon mode, the Camry returns to its normal state as a comfortable, well-mannered family hauler.
" Architects succeed, he said, when they "take a well-mannered approach, honor the urban framework and adapt the architecture accordingly.
What you don't see from Judge Polster's mild-mannered order is the fierce fight for public opinion that prompted it.
"There is room for everyone," said Mr. Pauliac — calm, polite and mild-mannered — adding that he hopes for an agreement.
Conason did a screen test but was never asked back; eventually, the job went to the mild-mannered Alan Colmes.
The mild-mannered Bryce Dessner is not the first composer I would have thought of to set them to music.
"One of the bad-mannered things we were allowed to do was to read at table," she told The Herald.
More than a dozen former business associates, family members, and acquaintances describe Takeda as mild-mannered and lacking business savvy.
"As a client, Frank was smart, mild-mannered and low key," his lawyer at the time, Harlan J. Protass, said.
For starters, he's a mild-mannered 2000-year-old middle class student from a loving family in England's west country.
The mild-mannered leader of the Republican People's Party stepped aside to allow his feistier colleague, Mr. Ince, to run.
I stole a glance, taking in some names and numbers under the glare of my well-mannered boyfriend's judgmental eye.
A mannered quality I often dislike in performances by Ms. Miller's own troupe was absent from Ballet Hispánico's unaffected dancing.
It's well-mannered, faithful to its music, beautifully constructed and emotionally subdued: a quiet statement of old-fashioned artistic values.
I stole a glance, taking in some names and numbers under the glare of my well-mannered boyfriend's judgmental eye.
As Kansas' state treasurer, the mild-mannered Mr. Estes, an engineer by trade, has twice been on a statewide ballot.
The meeting in Pecs was spirited and generally well mannered, even as a few audience members expressed anti-Western sentiments.
Barack Obama was a celebrity, but by contemporary media standards, just too well mannered and predictable to grab huge attention.
"He seemed real personable, very mild-mannered," Rael recalled over a smothered burrito lunch on a recent weekday in Questa.
Like many soft-spoken, mild-mannered people, I've spent a great deal of time trying to present myself this way.
The Confederate monument (erected in 1908) towering over the town square has caused some well-mannered chagrin among the locals.
Not quite on the same level as Brad Stevens, but cut from a similar cloth: young, mild-mannered, and adaptable.
After seeing this scenario play out over and over, the mild-mannered Indian-American physician came up with a scheme.
Clinton came on, a mild-mannered Belgian couple sat patiently in the back, hoping to catch a glimpse of the candidate.
Sometimes by being angrier and more insistent you get what you want, and being cooperative and mild-mannered you get ignored.
I know quite a few people who don't like Adams, who strikes them as mannered at best and histrionic at worst.
GENERAL practitioners, pillars of British communities and the first points of contact for primary care, are mostly a mild-mannered bunch.
When she flew Wellington bombers, glorious aircraft, so reliable and well-mannered, some ground crews were flabbergasted she was the pilot.
The baby is played by Robert Downey Jr. Drug PrincipalTrent Vickman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a mild-mannered high school principal... NOT.
" She said Mishcon was a "very special person" and called Stevens "one of the sweetest, mild-mannered men you'd ever meet.
LIM JAE-SUNG is a mild-mannered lawyer in his thirties with a fondness for monogrammed shirts and human-rights cases.
Within a few years, she had gone from being a "gentle, mild-mannered" daughter to an "Energizer Bunny missionary," she writes.
AUGUSTO SANTOS SILVA, the foreign minister of Portugal's three-month-old Socialist government, is a mild-mannered sociologist, not a firebrand.
" Andersen describes Mishcon as a "very special person" and called Stevens "one of the sweetest, mild-mannered men you'd ever meet.
If you took a $43,000 Black Edition Ridgeline out for a ride, you'd find it drives like a well-mannered crossover.
The video shows a calm, mild-mannered 18-year-old wearing nondescript clothes -- a white t-shirt, baseball cap and headphones.
Our first-generation Irish matriarch defined her brood as intelligent, solidly built, healthy, handsome, polite, well-mannered, politically engaged and Catholic.
Zorn discovers to his horror that his "little bone crusher" son is now a mild-mannered vegetarian who enjoys kale juice.
If you watched Ossoff on the campaign trail or in the debates versus Handel, you saw a well-mannered, intelligent individual.
Widely perceived as a matchup between two relatively mild-mannered politicians, Tuesday's debate between Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia and Gov.
A mild-mannered lawyer, he initially seemed no match for the gruff General Pinochet, who remained the army commander in chief.
Some people call him an "impresario," but he comes across more like a mild-mannered cardiologist than like P. T. Barnum.
And, somewhat surprisingly, the usually mild-mannered filmmaker had a lot to say about that during Loving's official Cannes press conference.
Several of the early pictures at the Met Breuer — of well-dressed shoppers and window displays — are mild-mannered and ordinary.
Mr. Frost is a mild-mannered eccentric who dabbles in several pursuits, all while caring for his ailing (and charming) mother.
Kessler is a dapper, mild-mannered guy who says he's "pretty even-keeled," even as Trump messes hourly with his head.
Although the concept has never caught on in this country, the VAT has been a powerful, well-mannered weapon for progress.
" Frost is a mild-mannered guy, 5'10" with black-rimmed glasses, a former Division-III hockey player who is still fit.
The fiancee protested, saying Legend was well-mannered and well-behaved and asked the judge why the child had to leave.
But the mild-mannered engineer — described, like many of CEO Sundar Pichai's deputies, as lacking a big ego — is no novice.
The "Finnish Nightmares" comic series documents the social challenges faced by Matti, a mild-mannered stick figure who abhors small talk.
Reporting on his death in 1881, The New York Times described Billy the Kid as slim, good-looking and mild-mannered.
In Houston, some 22017,22017 miles from the world championships, a mild-mannered cross-country coach named Steve Magness absorbed the news.
There's something occasionally mannered and artificial about his dialogue, which tends toward the screwball or the Socratic, depending on the moment.
His mannered intellectualism marks him as an outsider, queer in several senses, as much as any suspicions of criminal guilt do.
Turkey's marchers, led by the C.H.P.'s mild-mannered leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, are demonstrating against a more Turkish form of injustice.
For years, we mild-mannered lexicographers have been posting online about the most common lookup of the moment on our website.
Mr. Hopkinson said they had been surprised by how friendly, well mannered and courteous the local people they encountered had been.
She prefers less mannered, more classic dress, like the tangerine V-neck sweater she was wearing with tailored pants and sneakers.
Such a system would see Davutoglu, a more mild-mannered academic and former diplomat lacking Erdogan's natural appeal to crowds, sidelined.
Both daters are mild-mannered, and the encounter stays pleasantly afloat—that is, until the mention of "holographic cameras" comes up.
"It was very humble, very simple, and he was always attentive and well-mannered to people who work for him," Quijano recalled.
The R-rated comedy, from the writing team behind Neighbors, tracks the duo's transformation from mild-mannered parents into reprobate Mob bosses.
On the show, the mild-mannered dad worked from home so his wife could return to her demanding job as a reporter.
"Casey in the presence of the jury was very calm, very easygoing, mild-mannered, in a very sympathetic-appearing person," he said.
Oh, Netflix is premiering a series about a mild-mannered brunette father and husband who's actually caught up in the drug trade?
The director Nicolas Roeg "has chosen the garish, translucent, androgynous-mannered rock star, David Bowie, for his space visitor," Richard Eder wrote.
Lois Lane was a friend of Superman and a colleague of Clark Kent, the mild-mannered reporter who was Superman's alter ego.
Its candidate is Joseph Boakai, Ms Sirleaf's mild-mannered vice-president, who is seen by many as a safe (and uncorrupt) choice.
They needed several decades of finishing school before being deemed well-mannered enough to join the band indoors in the 18th century.
Specifically, individuals who believed that raising kids to be well-behaved, obedient, respectful of elders and well-mannered were likely Trump voters.
In so many Marvel movies, science and technology have been used to retaliate, punish, or turn mild-mannered men into the Hulk.
Mr. Church is mild-mannered, kind, circumspect, a voracious reader, an impeccable cook, and before long, a devoted member of the household.
Jackson, you're otherwise known by your mild-mannered alter ego, artist Tom Bagley, and your work has decorated every release and flyer.
For now, they can be found online -- and in the emboldened minds of 15 mild-mannered kids with the hearts of superheroes.
This response echoes Bush's reaction to other accusations, which his camp has framed as unintended responses to good-mannered joking, not harassment.
By all accounts he was mild-mannered and dutiful, always hanging just to the side of things, always polite and well-spoken.
" Tim Kaine, the typically mild-mannered Virginia senator who was Clinton's VP candidate, told CNN, "We are now beyond obstruction of justice.
The story later appeared in "Knight's Gambit," a mystery collection by Faulkner featuring a mild-mannered yet shrewd country lawyer from Mississippi.
"The language of this government will be mild-mannered," he added, in a clear swipe at the League's outspoken leader, Matteo Salvini.
The unexpected triumph of the mild-mannered, bookish, Occident-curious Mohammad Khatami in the 1997 presidential election fueled the possibility of change.
He's a soft-spoken, well-mannered man, so for what the president should be doing, he's the best one to do it.
Musica Sacra eventually began to grow a little mannered and stale in the later years of Mr. Westenburg, who died in 2008.
The story later appeared in "Knight's Gambit," a mystery collection from Faulkner featuring a mild-mannered yet shrewd country lawyer from Mississippi.
Ms. Weaver's character was ultimately too, well, well mannered to detonate the metaphorical bomb that might have brought down the Bush administration.
Mr. Dubke, a mild-mannered veteran of national politics, was among the aides who struggled to impose discipline on an undisciplined president.
The 1993 film Rudy offers the saccharine story of underdog Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, a mild-mannered kid from a blue collar family.
" On the Senate floor Thursday, the usually mild-mannered Gardner was outraged, calling the decision "a trampling of Colorado's rights, its voters.
We followed her rise from the well-mannered daughter of a Baltimore mayor to the highest-ranking woman in American political history.
In 249, a mild-mannered musician named Bruce Haack appeared on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and explained how his homemade electronic instruments worked.
The usually mild-mannered Rodgers did not intend to single out his teammates, but he said he was frustrated with the scout team.
Two are his adopted nephews: the violent-tempered John, better known as "Ace" (Paul Sparks), and Ace's mild-mannered brother Chris (Matthew Alan).
He clapped back at Instagram user zak_hanzal for posting a bad-mannered comment about the "When You Look Me In The Eyes" performer.
That's the premise of the comedy Fist Fight, which pits mild-mannered English teacher Andy (Charlie Day) against his colleague Ron (Ice Cube).
Mr Trebek, its mild-mannered host, was recently diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer and is likely to hand over the reins soon.
"Sorry, we have to sell that so we've got to keep it hygienic," he said, his face a mix of well-mannered disgust.
If this streaming isn't enough, there's always a video of the cutest and most well-mannered baby bat yawning and covering its mouth.
And the mild-mannered headline "Ahead of Vote, Promised Treasury Analysis of Tax Bill Proves Elusive" doesn't come close to doing it justice.
The softening of the ranchera was also signalled by his visible homosexuality, with his tight white trousers, sequinned shirts, makeup and mannered gestures.
Speaking of revolutionaries, when you wrote about Caravaggio's anti-Mannerist paintings, did you also intend for your writing to oppose conventional, mannered fiction?
The previous persona of US presidents in the minds of people in my region was that they were more studied or well-mannered.
Daniel Portman — who plays the mild-mannered Pod in the show and also retweeted McGreggor's original post — made his views pretty clear, too.
Abdullah the Butcher was part of it, as was Baron Von Raschke, a mild-mannered Minnesotan cosplaying as a Nazi in a cape.
"We think people associate us with the absence" of the Islamic State in Khorasan, said Captain J., a mild-mannered 31-year-old.
Will the guests you are welcoming into your property be clean, well-mannered, and quiet or sloppy, rude, and leave the place trashed?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He could also be a pragmatic strategist and, though generally shy and mild-mannered, a sometimes strident advocate.
His "Landscape with Anteater" in the show is a mild-mannered thing; block out the coconut palms and you're in Claude Lorrain's Italy.
Even a mild mannered person without the kind of coarse personal history Bannon owns is likely to lash out after essentially getting fired.
Consider the case of Canada, a small, mild-mannered neighbor that could be badly hurt by a trade war with its giant neighbor.
The normally reserved and mild-mannered Roberts, 64, will have the largely symbolic role of presiding officer, with senators casting the crucial votes.
Like many Americans, I long for the days when uncouth plagues of locusts were confined to the margins of our well-mannered skies.
Now the company feels menacing, ready to turn on Peter, whose plight is enhanced by his resemblance to a beleaguered, mild-mannered psychotherapist.
Blake, it seems, is revered with the utmost admiration, like some mild-mannered well of British talent that everyone wants a swig from.
Quartet (1981) is one such criminally underseen Merchant-Ivory that breaks with the company's penchant for the mannered Edwardian-era high society drama.
I'm grateful that our neighbor's child is the same age is T., and they are both sweet, well-mannered kids who play great together!
The normally mild-mannered Gomez entered the game after Chicago, trailing 3-1, loaded the bases with nobody out against his predecessor, Hector Neris.
Krauthammer delivered his views in a mild-mannered, steady and almost philosophical style, befitting his background in psychiatry and detailed analysis of human behavior.
Josh and Hazel have known each other since college, and they've always been opposites — Hazel, spontaneous and action-seeking; Josh, responsible and mild-mannered.
China's tourist authority keeps a no-fly list for ill-mannered travellers, who can be banned from going abroad for up to ten years.
Whether you're hanging with a nature-loving nephew, a mild-mannered mom, or a cranky teen cousin, we've got just the thing for you.
The performance was a breath of fresh air in a very mild-mannered awards show completely brushing over the country's current state of chaos.
"When people compliment me on him, on how well mannered, how charming, funny and well-behaved he is, it makes all the sacrifices worthwhile."
With mannered formality, he placed a pair of tidy, whiskery pecks on each side of my face, leaving behind an unfamiliar citrusy aftershave scent.
Mild-mannered Juppe, who was prime minister in 1995-97, triggering national strikes with a welfare reform program, is very popular among undecided voters.
Reagan is best when he has learned his lines, although his delivery is still mannered, with a B-movie actor's overemphasis on certain words.
There's nothing specifically wrong with Mike, except that Claire could certainly do better, and his mild-mannered gameness isn't enough to explain her interest.
In the second strand, which visualises the story in the novel, a mild-mannered man (Jake Gyllenhaal) is terrorised by hoodlums in West Texas.
The mild-mannered Massachusetts Democrat, who has served in Congress since 1989, is expected to proceed carefully to ensure he's complying with the law.
Some might consider Simon's pursuit of alternative energy a visionary notion for its time, but for the quiet-mannered glassmaker, it just made sense.
Victor is an engineer who fits many of the American stereotypes of Asians: He's financially successful, well-educated, shy at first, and mild-mannered.
These attacks essentially branded Northam, a mild-mannered pediatrician who served in the Army, as some unhinged leftie eager to give guns to pedophiles.
At Auburn, Tuberville established a reputation as a mild-mannered coach and charming recruiter who led the Tigers to an undefeated record in 2600.
In the film, Clark's stage alter ego is a sharp-edged, take-no-prisoners performance artist, while offstage she's mild-mannered and pretty boring.
Never one to upstage the boss, be it the president or secretary of state, Mr. Biegun is mild-mannered and deferential, the anti-Pompeo.
Don't say a word during a kick because it's ill-mannered, but sing over the Haka all you like and boast about it afterwards.
But it is in his day job on the Supreme Court that the mild-mannered jurist could have a bigger impact on Trump's presidency.
He's mild mannered, he's more Clark Kent, and Jack's the Superman," said Duncan Clark, the author of "Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built.
But I gave the chicken a bit of heat, unpacking the Korean condiment gochujang with sake, ginger, garlic and some well-mannered poblano chiles.
Word of the Day : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance _________ The word boorish has appeared in 52 articles on nytimes.
Similarly, a piece following her around for BBC4 shows a mild-mannered, contemplative Poly gently navigating the London streets and getting ready for shows.
If you are the kind of person who finds the above scenario twee or unbearably mannered, Forrest Leo's The Gentleman is not for you.
Barking is rarely encouraged in or asked of well-mannered pooches, but The Times recently took portraits and recorded the barks of various show dogs.
Wisconsin has a long history of electing soft-spoken, mild-mannered politicians from both sides of the aisle, while shunning big talkers and carnival barkers.
And when you make a mistake (which you will), a well-mannered attitude can afford you a second chance — even if you don't deserve one.
Others — the "creepy" and "ill-mannered," Press calls them — are still trying today to uncover his identity through means like the Freedom of Information Act.
Chandra is mild-mannered, soft-spoken, and cautiously thoughtful in person, but as an author he writes sex scenes that steam and action that pounds.
Rose was also a youth volunteer for Duquesne Mayor Nickole Nesby, who described him as well-mannered and very smart teenager who liked playing basketball.
Were Trump a more circumspect and well-mannered man, who never bragged about how rich he is, his wealth would be less of an issue.
Mild-mannered nice guy Frank, who couldn't bring himself to shoot a man in season one, joins the rebels in increasingly bloody and anarchic missions.
Superman – otherwise known as mild-mannered Clark Kent – is one of the most iconic characters in comic book history and a mainstay of Hollywood blockbusters.
His best movie in this period, 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, is about a guy who feigns bravado but is actually a mild-mannered quisling.
"Republicans are too well-mannered and actually try to follow the rules," Horowitz said, also bashing the attorneys general under Obama, Lynch and Eric Holder.
The 2001 terrorist attacks on America also helped persuade the West that the democratically elected, mild-mannered and pro-business AK party was worth supporting.
Abe demanded that the U.S. prevent similar crimes in a fiery statement to reporters that many saw as uncharacteristic for the well-mannered Japanese leader.
In stark contrast to his very intimidating appearance — he is covered in tattoos, the word "Skinhead" inked across his knuckles — Mr. Flanagan is mild-mannered.
Mike Pence of Indiana came to his vice-presidential audition here on Tuesday night as prepared as a mild-mannered, socially conservative governor could be.
Eddie is investigating Riz Ahmed's equally mild-mannered but definitely evil scientist, Dr. Carlton Drake, while flirting hard with Drake's lawyer Anne Weying (Michelle Williams).
A Needed Cold Shower: Even Style himself disowned his P.U.A. legacy, morphing back to Neil Strauss, a now mild-mannered husband, father and life counselor.
The odd thing is that once you get used to it, the single outstretched hand from friends does start to feel a bit ill-mannered.
Mr. Price, an intense sort, came chest to chest with the mild-mannered Mr. Anderson as he shrieked in triumph over a particularly good turn.
That coherence, and the contrast between Robbie's spooky, mannered performance and Ronan's spirited openness, make the movie consistently interesting even if it's not always convincing.
If you're creating the atmosphere of a hardboiled noir, that world is different from a lyrical, delicate, mannered prose, which is different from experimental prose.
Though mannered and elliptical throughout, it's more readable than those qualities usually herald, and in the end there's something hypnotic about its stately, confessional prose.
"If there is a well-mannered atmosphere in stadiums, we have no objection to (the admission of women)," Vaezi told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
As Mr. Nordstrom told the story, he described the older gentleman as sweet and mild mannered and having to breathe with an portable oxygen tank.
In fact, one might meet Baby, the dog shared by Mr. King, Ms. Radziwill and Mr. Swanhaus, and find her slightly ill mannered at times.
Yankees Manager Aaron Boone's theatrical run-ins with umpires this summer might have surprised more than a few observers, given his otherwise mild-mannered demeanor.
When we meet him, he's been retired for the past nine years, spending his days as a mild-mannered high-school principal raising two daughters.
In presentation and speech, Mr. Trump, a bombastic Republican, and Mr. Trudeau, a more mild-mannered Liberal who is 25 years younger, are poles apart.
Some grouse that Haddad, a mild-mannered political science professor at the elite University of Sao Paulo, is not tough enough to take on Bolsonaro.
Even insurance companies are experimenting with apps and dongles that record braking, acceleration and speed with the lure of lower rates for well-mannered drivers.
He is pale and lanky, discreetly tattooed, caustically funny and so well mannered that he would rather miss his train than cut into a line.
Despite his mild-mannered persona, there are a good number of people who seem genuinely convinced that Fred Rogers was anything but a gentle man.
I can tell you Paul Ryan is very a mannered person and interpersonally is respectful to people who he encounters, whether they're Democrats or Republicans.
"She's beautiful, just like Gloria, a well-mannered child," Hiers told CNN Saturday, standing outside the detention center to deliver a message of support to Williams.
A seemingly mild-mannered retiree and a proud mother from Oklahoma, she generally confined her social media content to tweets about TV and local Tulsa news.
Click here to view original GIFEven the most mild-mannered among us can't spend an afternoon inside a sprawling IKEA warehouse without leaving full of rage.
"They have a good mix of students and wealthy homeowners, which provides the perfect combination of bad parking behaviour and good-mannered, righteous indignation," he said.
Mr Modi presents himself as a very different sort of statesman from Mr Singh, who was cerebral, bureaucratic and mild-mannered to the point of diffidence.
So I met with Lopez Obrador in 85033 and found him to be mild-mannered and funny, far different from the firebrand image I had formed.
Blankenship, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered candidate who little resembles President Donald Trump's personality, has cast himself as the "Trumpier than Trump" candidate in the race.
As she left, he warned her not to tell anyone, claiming he had merely been testing her to see whether she was "a well-mannered student".
But outside groups on both sides are increasingly tracking the mild-mannered Democrat as a swing vote as the battle over Gorsuch kicks into high gear.
In an era when rock music—and to use a term that Cox tells me he abhors—"indie" were mannered and polite, Deerhunter were outsized outliers.
He was a pious, mild-mannered introvert, with no apparent real-world jihadi connections, yet online he wrote as if he were plotting a suicide attack.
The actors still carry scripts, though that is no bar to Mr. Mac's dangerous enthusiasm or Ms. Blackwell's mild-mannered insanity or Ms. Celik's infectious disdain.
Puvis's somewhat mannered three-quarters view of a woman's head (in pencil, 1898) conjures John Graham's paintings of wild-eyed enchantresses from the 1920s and '30s.
He plays Howard Silk, a mild-mannered office drone for a United Nations-like organization, his job so arcane even he isn't sure what he does.
Much of the first movie is built around the lessons that superspy Harry Hart (Colin Firth) teaches to his young, ill-mannered protégé Eggsy (Taron Egerton).
Of course, by that point, ill-mannered 12-year-olds yelling sexist, racist, and homophobic threats at rivals during online play had already attained meme status.
Mild-mannered off the ice — equally happy discussing musical interests, favorite cars or latest fashion trends — Lundqvist morphs into a caldron of intensity on the ice.
When Mr. Eyre's "Werther" staging had its premiere in 2014, with Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch as the star-crossed couple, it felt mannered and detached.
There was no shrieking or ripping coming from the heavens — and very little coming from the stage, where "The Thirteenth Child" made a mild-mannered impression.
His choice for ambassador to Moscow was his uncle Azizullah, a mild-mannered man well into his 70s who had been living in the United States.
He's old (39), he's a classically immobile pocket-passer, and he's a mild-mannered, overall dad-looking guy whose own father was an NFL quarterback, too.
Pichai is a mild-mannered political type who has held the respect of engineers and nontechnical workers — a former engineer with calm, technical expertise and charisma.
Out of the mists of Stonehenge emerges the rather odd-mannered young wizard Merlin (Angus Imrie), who enrolls himself at school under the name of Mertin.
"It's so completely woven into the mannered, surreal aesthetic of the film," says superfan Jeremy Schmidt, who composes synthesizer music under the moniker of Sinoia Caves.
They will not be allowed to "flay the skin and suck the blood" of retail investors, he added, belying his earlier reputation as a mild-mannered bureaucrat.
Instead we met was an extremely sweet, extremely excited teenager who was about as well-mannered, gracious, and nice to be around as any musician out there.
Krystal's behavior has been been getting progressively more outrageous all season, and she's almost giddy when she finds out she's going up against quirky, mild-mannered Kendall.
Proving that Harley Quinn is not the squad's only kick-ass female, Delevingne's mild-mannered Moone transforms into the ghastly Enchantress while government bigwigs watch in horror.
Between all of the mild-mannered studenting and Avenger-style world saving (not to mention what transpired during Infinity War), Peter Parker could clearly use a break.
People who have worked with Carney describe him as a mild-mannered, soft-spoken leader with a calm demeanor who's often sipping on a cup of coffee.
"Far from the 'madman' the media portrays, Trump came across as perfectly normal, smart, and well-mannered," read one of the more than 1,200 posts on Naver.com.
LONDON — Libraries may have a reputation for being a quiet, well-mannered bunch, but the ones in Scotland don't mind a bit of banter on social media.
" But he also read constantly—James Baldwin, Malcolm X, American history, poetry—and had the mild-mannered, upbeat personality of someone "blessed with good looks and charm.
"The attitude of the new minister is extremely nonprofessional and ill-mannered," Mr. Gul wrote in a letter that went viral on social media at the time.
And since Anik is about the most mild-mannered, uncontroversial guy you could have behind the microphone, he padded his prediction in praise for the Diaz brothers.
But the conceits that work on the page — like Louis' breathless, stream-of-consciousness narration, or his deep-voiced imaginary friend — are jarring and mannered on-screen.
Parker Posey, who keeps popping up randomly as a family friend, is breathy and mannered in a way that suggests a much wackier, broader, more forceful film.
The editor of the paper, the mild-mannered, urbane Frank Giles, took the fall and was fired, bringing a distinguished career to an abrupt and ignominious end.
Since the attack, people who had encountered Mr. Adan have tried to reconcile the quiet, mild-mannered youth they saw with the bloody accounts of his actions.
A sweet, well-mannered blank, he gets re-branded by the day, from "cute" to "woke" to "bad boy," as his hashtags are monitored like volatile stocks.
He's lived outside the boundaries of respectable society his entire life, making the moneyed and mannered uncomfortable whether as a teenage miscreant or a senior citizen dirtbag.
Dr. Bolte, a mild-mannered U.C.S.C. professor with a soothing lilt to his voice, became one of the most visible promoters of the project in community meetings.
"It was an unbelievable performance from both of us and it's really unfortunate for Rafa," the mild-mannered Cilic told Jim Courier during his post-match interview.
It seems to me that the internal conversation we witness in her paintings is between unbridled desire and well-mannered structure, with neither quite dominating the other.
Increasingly, in innumerable landscapes created at a furious clip in the south of France, van Gogh's picture planes imitate the flat, mannered elegance of certain Japanese paintings.
Though mild-mannered in person, Haggerty is unafraid to make bold moves (if this one fails, his bid for re-election in 2019 certainly will suffer, too).
Mr. Okerlund, who was nicknamed Mean Gene by the wrestler (and future governor of Minnesota) Jesse Ventura, was a mild-mannered figure, especially by pro-wrestling standards.
Wesley Snipes is a hoot as director D'Urville Martin, so twitchy and mannered he seems to have beamed down to the Dolemite set from another planet entirely.
In Orwell's novel, Winston is the unlikeliest of heroes, a mild-mannered middle-aged cog in the immense, soulless machine that makes his country, called Oceania, run.
Mr. Kuhn would then get angry and call the cautious prosecutor stupid for opting for a mild-mannered life as a civil servant over accepting a bribe.
A mild-mannered physician and Army veteran, Mr. Northam, 57, fended off Tom Perriello, a former congressman whose insurgent candidacy gave the state's Democratic establishment a scare.
For a decade, Nielsen, a mild-mannered center from Denmark, went about his job for the Islanders, through many trying years and a few moments of exultation.
The Party's leader, Bernd Lucke, was a mild-mannered free-market economist, whose agenda was based on a conviction that the euro was unsustainable as a currency.
"The Louis XV period of style," he wrote, "was noted for very well-mannered dignity, symmetry and functional practicality," features that appealed to his sense of order.
Russia has in the past often managed to punch above its weight because it has been able to assume that West will be moderate and well-mannered.
Among the earliest pieces in the show are two highly mannered depictions of a train racing in our direction, both called "Train at Night in the Desert" (1916).
As depicted in Gentleman Jack, Lister's presentation – from her all-black clothing to her close "friendships" with women — became the subject of fervent gossip among the mannered class.
He is trying to turn back the clock, to a time when a pragmatic, mild-mannered Democrat could win statewide office (Bredesen was the last, 12 years ago).
Tony Evers, a mild-mannered former teacher also succeeded, by the thinnest of whiskers, in stopping Scott Walker from getting a third term as Republican governor in Wisconsin.
"Most of the time people pull us aside and tell us how well mannered the group is or you're doing an excellent job!" says Christina with a laugh.
Watching "Darkest Hour", it was hard not to think that Winston Churchill, with his drinking, smoking, tempers and mannered speech, would never survive the 24-hour news cycle.
In Clinton, he found a perfect opponent -- someone as cautious as he was risky, someone as insider as he was outsider, someone as mannered as he was unruly.
Hemingway's became a style so mannered that it could be parodied endlessly, to the point that Hemingway parodies are nearly as rich a literary form as Hemingway stories.
He was best known for his role as Moses Hightower, the mild-mannered florist-turned-lawman in the film comedy "Police Academy" (1984) and many of its sequels.
The gentle-mannered Khatami appealed equally to people who had grown wary of radicalism, and a leadership looking for a way to recast its image in the West.
The incredible surge enjoyed by Nvidia has been well-chronicled, but more mild-mannered fellow semiconductor stock Broadcom has managed to fly a bit more under the radar.
In an uncharacteristic move for the usually mild mannered senator, Booker had a confrontation with reporter Byron Tau, who asked if his Spartacus moment was a political stunt.
When William Brennan, a liberal icon and one of the Warren Court's last survivors, stepped down in 1990, Bush nominated the mild-mannered David Souter to replace him.
Bronson and his squad of sauntering, mild-mannered colleagues—most often, his collaborator Big Body Bes; the cherubic, winsome rapper Meyhem Lauren; and the lanky producer and d.j.
At the age of 27 Fillon was elected mayor of Sable, and worked his way up the political ladder to become Sarkozy's mild mannered prime minster in 2007.
In contrast, Faso, a more mild-mannered Republican, has eschewed some of Trumpism, voting against his tax plan and dismissing the President's role in his re-election bid.
A normally mild-mannered lawmaker, Schiff had worked hard in recent days to maintain a veneer of bipartisanship when it came to Nunes and the Trump wiretapping probe.
He was a golden retriever (mild mannered and well behaved), but certainly the pit bulls in his shop would get the goods on the president and First Lady.
His assistant was on vacation, he explained, and he had observed me in town and judged me to be an enterprising young man, mild-mannered, reliable, and obedient.
That has something to do with the subjects, who are generally well mannered and thoughtful and don't appear to do much drinking (except for the one who does).
Mactaggart and his team were scheduled to meet Ed Chau, a mild-mannered lawmaker from outside Los Angeles who leads the Assembly's committee on privacy and consumer protection.
In "Ultra Violet Visionary Transformation No.2" (2014–20163), the mannered curvatures of the syringe-applied paint strands sit awkwardly with the slapdash texture of their enclosed surfaces.
And Britons generally warmed to a mild-mannered vegetarian who makes his own jam and did not seem as menacing as he had been portrayed by the tabloids.
What started off as a well-mannered—albeit slurred—conversation on his behalf, became a set of accidental insults about which Star Trek convention was the best party.
Here again, I'd think, was writing that stemmed from outrage, and often shame, but remained impeccably well-mannered and sure of itself, almost legalistic in structure and presentation.
" He added, "There is nothing precious about Chloë's performance — nothing mannered, no weird Locust Valley lockjaw — and yet she makes a very strong woman believable for the period.
A wild multiple-player fight that included the normally mild-mannered Chris Paul and Brandon Ingram stole the spotlight shining on James's official landing on the West Coast.
You sort of root for his character, a Wall Street hotshot named Lockhart, but you also kind of hope he suffers, since he's a selfish, ill-mannered jerk.
At Adsum, where the placard outside the store reads "For athletes and aesthetes," the clothes are mannered and concise, a range of well-executed basics with appealing twists.
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But a mean cat catcher interrupts his plans by making him spend a week with the Biddle family, to learn how to be a well-mannered house cat.
François Ozon's first English-language film is "simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
The mild-mannered Mr. Brewer emphasized that he would be a full-time governor and not spend time running for president, as his opponent was expected to do.
State Representative Joe Straus, the speaker of the Texas House, has long employed a mild-mannered, commerce-focused brand of Republican politics in the mold of former Gov.
"We're just mild-mannered Canadians, we're not claiming we're superior, but we wanted to make a better and more efficient way," said McKinney, who worked on the project.
Like so many Coen brothers films, it's mannered and absurd, with telling period trappings and memorably quirky details, as well as a handful of genuinely breathtaking set-piece sequences.
Manatees, which are three separate but closely related species of mild-mannered aquatic mammals that graze on sea grass and other plants, are basically nature's good boys and girls.
An all-girl rock trio touring through the desert gets a flat tire and hitches a ride with an odd-mannered couple, who invite them to spend the night.
"He basically thinks we can't lose, that we go out on the water and win," the more mild-mannered Bond said of his team mate after their Rio triumph.
Adeniyi-Jones has discovered the benefits of unique stylization: objects and figures can be made in such a mannered way that they become visual metaphors, flexible in their vagueness.
Roberts, 65, is a reserved and mild-mannered jurist who held posts in the administrations of two Republican presidents before becoming a solid conservative vote on the Supreme Court.
I'm usually a mild-mannered guy, but I got a little testy in asking him how Wells Fargo not only made the DiversityInc list but moved up this year.
Rouhani, known for decades as a mild-mannered member of the establishment, campaigned as an ardent reformist to stir up the passions of young, urban voters yearning for change.
The couple's Mesquite real estate agent, meanwhile, finds it almost impossible to square the mild-mannered man to whom she sold a home with the now-notorious mass murderer.
In last week's episode of Outlander, when Jamie was trying to rouse his volunteer army, he talked about how silly the British army seemed with their well-mannered rituals.
The one time I met him, in 1997, this seemingly mild-mannered man was rubbing his chin because a "friend" had punched him in the jaw the night before.
In my inbox, he bore little resemblance to the mild-mannered candidate hoping to break out from the back of the pack that I had seen in real life.
These days, when not guesting on shows like Nashville, Mendler reflects on lost love and ill-mannered men with a matured emotional depth and resilience stripped of self-pity.
MOST HEARTBREAKING COMEDY For the last four seasons, "Nathan for You" has essentially been an inspired prank show with a mild-mannered consultant giving terrible advice to small businesses.
I took in a blackmouth cur this summer as a refugee from Hurricane Harvey and she's a lovely, coltish girl with big brown eyes, very refined and well-mannered.
While Mr. Colyer was viewed as a mild-mannered moderate, Mr. Kobach, endorsed by President Trump, was known widely for his strident views on illegal immigration and voter fraud.
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair I've not always gotten along with Phoenix's mannered, muscle-strained approach to his craft, but here he makes a compelling case for going full-tilt.
Look up old videos of Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler, and you'll see how an approach like this can go wrong: Bernstein looks mannered, overemotional, performatively in search of transcendence.
Jon Osterman, the normal-skinned guy who would become the blue raspberry-skinned Dr. Manhattan, was just a normal, mild-mannered nuclear physicist and son of, yes, a watchmaker.
Davis Love III chuckled at the memory of his normally mild-mannered father exploding in anger because another player in his sectional group had repeatedly shown poor course etiquette.
And after Mr. Trump was battered by divisive partisan confirmations of his appointees, the mild-mannered defender of government health care was confirmed by the Senate, 100 to zero.
In 28503, a mild-mannered U.S. senator from South Dakota named George McGovern, who started with 22019 percent in the polls, became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
More than anything, aides came to regret the interview because it was largely ineffective, particularly after Kavanaugh disproved the mild-mannered image in his highly-charged testimony days later.
The figure skater told USA Today that he was open to the "possibility" of meeting Pence after competing, adding that the vice president seems "more mild-mannered" than Trump.
Mr. Coats, a mild-mannered conservative who served on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, would be stepping into a position that some in Washington believe is superfluous.
There was strong reaction to his portrayal of Hitler (including a slew of angry-führer internet memes), but Mr. Ganz always insisted he was the mildest-mannered of introverts.
Could this mild-mannered star, which is around 50 percent bigger than our Sun and is located some 1,200 light years from Earth, be home to an extraterrestrial civilization?
After the vote, Kroenke, a clunky-mannered real estate magnate with a charm quotient to rival the Rams' meager win totals of recent years, joined Goodell for a news conference.
HILLSBORO, Ohio — Senator Rob Portman, a mild-mannered Republican seeking re-election in the era of Donald J. Trump, has long pitched himself as a voice of reason in Washington.
As for how the members of the posh set feel about rubbing elbows with non-aristocrats, Meier says that most people won't mind, provided everyone is polite and well-mannered.
Mike Pence of Indiana, the reliably conservative and mild-mannered counterbalance to the brash billionaire, top Republican officials are pressing Trump to tap Priebus for the top White House post.
Chun, a mild-mannered man with high cheekbones and wavy gray hair, is one of a band of Korean pastors who specialize in helping North Korean women escape from China.
Humala, a mild-mannered former military officer who governed Peru from 2011 to 2016, turned himself in with Heredia, the co-founder of his nationalist party, immediately after the ruling.
"For now, we are trying to resolve this through diplomacy," says Mr Tshisekedi, a mild-mannered man of 53 who affects his father's somewhat incongruous flat cap for public appearances.
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones has discovered the benefits of unique stylization: objects and figures can be made in such a mannered way that they become visual metaphors, flexible in their vagueness.
I remember, many years ago, sitting on my parents' bed as my father — a mild-mannered engineer — dug through their closet, pulling out blade after blade from his knife collection.
The normally mild-mannered cleric is trying to hold on to office by firing up reformist voters who want less confrontation abroad and more social and economic freedom at home.
Both he and Marc try to recruit their mild-mannered friend Yvan (Sean Dugan) to their cause, though his nature makes him a buffer, and occasional victim, in the battle.
Cam Edwards, a mild-mannered Oklahoman who hosts a three-hour talk show on weekdays, interviews writers from the Daily Caller, columnists from Town Hall, and owners of shooting ranges.
"Swimming Pool," François Ozon's first English-language film, "is simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
Mild mannered racing fan The 62 year old lawyer-turned-politician grew up in a strict Catholic household in Sarthe, western France, to a notary father and history teacher mother.
Hickenlooper expected to end presidential bid on Thursday MORE (Colo.): The typically mild-mannered Colorado Democrat kicked off his time on the dais on a light-hearted note, thanking Rep.
Mr. Pence and Mr. Kaine are both relatively mild-mannered candidates who are not overly combative and their showdown lacked the fanfare that the top of the ticket has received.
But a few minutes into his mild-mannered spiel with me, Gerrard switched gears and started tearing into the importance of safety and privacy for the online black dating community.
Long before the rise of Mr. Trump — for more than half a century — social scientists have tried to figure out why some seemingly mild-mannered people gravitate toward a strongman.
In the disembodied world of social media, food is appreciated as an almost exclusively visual medium, enshrined in hyper-processed, highly mannered photos without true corollaries in the physical world.
Mr. van Dantzig's choreography, imbued with oddities here and there, was repetitive and frequently unmusical; it seemed to unfold in slow motion, and the cast responded with hesitant, mannered dancing.
As the dancers take turns sharing memories about their mentor — their voices are heard on recordings as they gaze into the camera for video portraits — they seem mannered, self-conscious.
The sexual aspect of "Venus" was less evident when it was staged in New York at the Public Theater in 1996, in a distractingly mannered production directed by Richard Foreman.
The election of the mild-mannered Mr. Van der Bellen ends a bitter yearlong campaign, which had pitted him against Norbert Hofer, a leader of the far-right Freedom Party.
The first time Alderson hired a manager, at Oakland in 1983, he replaced the fiery Billy Martin with Steve Boros, a mild-mannered former infielder who hoped to teach literature.
It's not just that, in the state-run Saudi Press Agency's preposterous telling, a mild-mannered 59-year-old somehow got himself into a fatal fistfight with multiple Saudi officials.
In the film (as, presumably, in real life), Clark's stage alter ego is a sharp-edged, take-no-prisoners performance artist, while off-stage she's mild-mannered and pretty boring.
But his big moment — a mea culpa for a racially charged policing incident in South Bend — felt like another well-mannered white guy desperate to put his wokeness on display.
She is either a beautiful symbol of a hoped-for pan-racial harmony or a treacherous, ill-mannered black woman who somehow tricked a blameless white man into marrying her.
Ted Cruz with a passionate speech that saw the usually mild-mannered senator raising his voice to accuse Cruz of crying "crocodile tears" for lamenting a tactic Cruz once used himself.
Their lives all intersect with that of Vernon, a mild-mannered former record shop owner who finds himself living on the street after the mysterious death of his rock star friend.
Fadell is still undeniably intense, but here, speaking easy French to the waitstaff, he was smack in the overlap of a Venn diagram showing Mannered Parisian Elite and Brash Tech Titan.
The hiring has been led by Schmuhl, the mild-mannered South Bend native helming Buttigieg's campaign, while the media strategy has been crafted by Lis Smith, Buttigieg's 36-year-old spokeswoman.
But in January 1993, the 23-year-old Akebono won his second straight tournament, and the Yokozuna Promotion Council couldn't deny that the mild-mannered, serious sportsman had earned the rank.
For two weeks the kingdom insisted that Mr Khashoggi had left the consulate safely—until October 0003th, when it claimed that the mild-mannered journalist was accidentally killed in a brawl.
Whatever the real nature of his job, mild-mannered Haruto-san, with his black-rimmed glasses and a habit of nodding diligently, looked more like a professor than a government agent.
The retired neurosurgeon used that time to talk about his mild-mannered demeanor and argue that -- despite GOP concerns -- it would help him confront a Democratic opponent in the general election.
Kennedy, mild-mannered and professorial, sometimes joined the liberal justices on key rulings, earning a reputation as the court's "swing" vote who heartened conservatives and liberals alike, depending on the issue.
Mr Touadera, a mild-mannered former maths professor, is seen as an independent outsider, despite working under Mr Bozizé for four years until the Séléka takeover in 2013, says Mr Fielding.
As a result, Bélier-Garcia's attempt to impose a tone similar to Vyrypaev's leads to performances that look mannered, and a little too cerebral for what is ultimately a harmless farce.
" Roosevelt returned the volley charging that the mild-mannered Wilson was "a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic pre-possessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
A charismatic minimalist from the start, he has lately — in the haunting "All is Lost" and the mild-mannered "Our Souls at Night" — offered a series of master classes in understatement.
A charismatic minimalist from the start, he has lately — in the haunting 'All is Lost' and the mild-mannered 'Our Souls at Night' — offered a series of master classes in understatement.
He is known as affable, mild-mannered, even a little shy, and if this race were purely a choice between him and Mr. Modi, opinion polls show he would be trounced.
Such stalwart defenders of a certain brand of "common sense" capitalism have watched in horror as ill-mannered upstarts — on both the right and the left — build power at the fringes.
In a twenty-three-year career as a mild-mannered and well-liked family doctor, he injected at least two hundred and fifteen of his patients with lethal doses of opiates.
But this deceptively mannered "picture novel" isn't an excuse for nostalgia; rather, it shows the furies that drive the mismatched Matchcard brothers, who have inherited their father's business, into lifelong enmity.
Alongside Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Susan Strasberg, Mr. Fonda starred as a mild-mannered television commercial director who uses LSD for the first time and makes the most of it.
Their foyer prominently displays photos of the couple's time in Washington, though this being the South, Ms. Laszlo said, most people are too well-mannered to ask many pointed political questions.
As for flavor, you're not getting a Champagne, of course, but a little yeastiness gives the otherwise fruity and mild-mannered wine a little something extra in the way of body.
Whatever the reason, such was the appeal of this adventure that Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), a mild-mannered engineer and indifferent sailor, was willing to risk everything to take to sea.
Alongside Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Susan Strasberg, Mr. Fonda starred as a mild-mannered television commercial director who uses LSD for the first time and makes the most of it.
The new cheese, called Lady Prue, is aged six months and clothbound, for a pale, mild-mannered and buttery slab, with a light, herbaceous tang and a sweet hint of caramel.
But in the past week, the mild-mannered official has been caught up in a political storm that has threatened to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government months before a general election.
The typically mild-mannered Meadows could be seen repeating 'it doesn't matter' as Ryan spoke to him, and he walked away from Ryan at one point only to return and continue arguing.
Instead Matteo Renzi, the prime minister, resigned (though he is plotting his return) and Paolo Gentiloni, the mild-mannered foreign minister, glided into place at the head of a largely unchanged cabinet.
One thing we've learned from the Superman myth is that the Man of Steel has a mild-mannered alter ego, Clark Kent, who few suspect has any connection to that heroic crusader.
In Riley Stearns' new movie The Art of Self-Defense, a lonely, mild-mannered office drone has an experience that forces him to reevaluate his lowly place in a supposedly civilized society.
And granted, the ill-mannered Wood Man barges into the house uninvited at all hours of the day to use your fireplace without asking, but at least he brings his own wood.
She just made partner at a top law firm, she has a loving partner and she's raising well-mannered, bright children, all while looking fresh faced and ready to conquer the world.
Mr McConnell backed Mr Strange, a mild-mannered ex-lobbyist who served as Alabama's attorney-general until Robert Bentley, then governor, gave him an interim appointment to Mr Sessions's seat in February.
The most important official, apart from the president himself, will be Liu He, a mild-mannered policymaker who has risen from relative obscurity to become Mr Xi's trusted adviser on the economy.
This could lead to a painfully mannered performance, but Radcliffe plays this sweet simpleton with such unfussy conviction that his primitive speech and zombie-like eyes are both funny and oddly poignant.
Jim Henson's mild-mannered muppet is nearly as versatile a meme as Spongebob, whether he's sipping Liptons and calling you on your bullshit, or giving voice to the evil in your head.
And last week, when Shaun Livingston, an otherwise mild-mannered point guard, was ejected from Game 4 against the Trail Blazers for screaming at an official, Green sounded like a doting parent.
A trifle mannered at first, the performances similarly grow on you, capturing the bonds these men shared -- forged through loss, pain and guilt -- even if they can't always give voice to them.
The two young men attended the same church, and Mr. Williams recalled Mr. Johnson as a "well-mannered" youth who was active in church events and the typical pursuits of a teenager.
Machotaildrop's roster of skaters is styled in precisely the way you'd think a well-mannered man named The Baron would dress them—in striped sailor shirts, elaborate sweaters, and smart dress pants.
While Mr. Finkelpearl was a mild-mannered leader who eschewed the back-channeling, brass-knuckled negotiating of municipal politics, Mr. Casals is widely described as an activist, comfortable stepping into the fray.
"People who are Catalans are very Catalan here," said Mr. Colom, a mild-mannered father of two, as he steered his tractor onto a dirt-covered square already full of giant machines.
In them the laws of our familiar world are broken: Mild-mannered students become godlike creatures, mutants walk among us and untold power is, in an instant, granted to the most downtrodden.
Conversations that could have sparked with the wit and archness of a 1940s romantic comedy are edited in such a way as to make them feel slow and mannered, and it's distracting.
Tory lawmakers narrowed the choice today to Boris Johnson, the bombastic longtime Brexit advocate, and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, a mild-mannered ex-businessman who initially opposed Brexit, but now supports it.
Into this nest of mild-mannered entitlement — most of the action takes place in Jules and Pam's sleek Brooklyn apartment — comes Henry, a transgender man whom Ezra knew in childhood as Helen.
Too mannered for realism and too thin for fable, it spins its wheels in a social and intellectual void filled only by Wakefield's voice-over musings and the shadow of Doctorow's virtuosity.
A folk musician who accompanies himself on guitar while singing his verbose streams of consciousness, Mr. Phillips's stage alter ego is a mild-mannered Everyman whose nice-guy persona invites cruel heckling.
Trump told Mason, who has a reputation as a generally mild-mannered correspondent and was recently president of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), not to be "rude" in a scolding tone.
But some members privately raised concerns about whether the mild-mannered congresswoman had the fighting instinct necessary to chair a committee that will be in the national spotlight in the coming months.
"When the dog was here at BARC, where he lived with us for just under a month before he was adopted, he was mild mannered and very well behaved," the statement said.
The roadworthy-spacecraft vibe that we first experienced with the Model X — and have now witnessed in a heavily mannered way with the Cybertruck — was massively scaled up for the Tesla Semi.
"Swimming Pool," François Ozon's first English-language film, "is simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
It's self-conscious about its relationship with its source material and about all the different ways there are to play on the concept of "clasp;" it is just a little bit mannered.
The contentious affair threatens to put Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, under political pressure from all sides, a role court watchers say the mild-mannered jurist will assume with great reluctance.
A lot of people just see me as I am now, like, the mild mannered light-skinned dude from Atlanta, but I didn't have any access to do anything that I wanted.
"After I count to 10, I'll be a mild-mannered employee," Retsuko tells herself, and we see her force her emotions down once again, swallowing her rage to get through another day.
But to his surprise, the sasquatch he meets (whom he dubs Mr. Link, voiced by Zach Galifianakis) is a well-mannered, lonely creature that wants to meet with his probable family, the yeti.
They will need trips to the dog park to let out big bursts of speed, but once they are home again, these dogs are quiet, well-mannered and eager to make you happy.
Maybe it's time to let the old ways die, and accept that Inner Sanctum Mystery's specific register of mannered, corn-adjacent horror lives on solely as a novelty in a modern radio landscape.
" Years later, Vogue underlined just how "innately poised and well-mannered" she was from the start: "As rough-and-tumble as she gets onstage, Stefani leaves that attitude behind when the concert's over.
When we meet Sierra, she's a well-mannered girl who has a good relationship with her parents (Back to the Future's Lea Thompson and Ferris Bueller's Alan Ruck, a real dose of nostalgia).
Written by Ed Solomon and directed by (and the brainchild of) Steven Soderbergh, some of the performances were mannered, and the long takes seemed show-offy to me, rather than seamless and natural.
In Metropolis, Superman (who goes around town as mild-mannered Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent) is now dating Lois Lane (Amy Adams), but he recognizes that some on Earth distrust his altruistic motives.
Elmo proves victorious in all of Grump's challenges, but is obviously too helpful and well-mannered to work with Grump, so he winds up yanking Grump's wig off in a very touching ending.
But if it can't stop the trolls from blatantly abusing the rest of the community or projecting hate, it will have failed society and more mild-mannered users will move to cleaner pastures.
Unfortunately, I'd wager that the Elvis impersonator is no longer with us, but his mild-mannered pisstaking in the face of low-level juvenile delinquency will live on forever in this blog post.
Six months ago, during Virginia's gubernatorial Democratic primary, many—myself very much included—worried that Northam, the state's mild-mannered, moderate lieutenant governor, was out of step in a fevered post-Trump climate.
Instead, Salsedo, like many other families, had placed his trust in local volunteers -- primarily young, well-mannered residents who had helped to comb the site in search of life, and comfort families affected.
The mild-mannered young Crusoe (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal) is marooned on an island inhabited by a collaborative bunch of talking animals, including a pangolin, a tapir, a chameleon and a billy goat.
Then again, the N.F.L. already staged its own smackdown between Goodell and Robert Kraft, the Patriots' owner, whose mild-mannered demeanor went out the window a week before the Super Bowl last year.
The consistent message of his campaign was an appeal—Espy is too mild-mannered to call it a "challenge"—to white voters to opt, at long last, for sanity and a brighter future.
WASHINGTON — Mild-mannered, lawyerly and with a genius for trivia, Richard Cordray is not the sort of guy you picture at the center of Washington's bitter partisan wars over regulation and consumer safeguards.
Serafinowiczalso played a character in Dark Souls II, Mild-Mannered Pate, and that's him providing the grunts as your character dodges many swords, flaming arrows, and man-eating chests in the 2014 title.
Our choice is between a mild-mannered, business-friendly centrist and a Tea Party Republican who has voted with the president 91 percent of the time, who favors the repeal of Roe v.
On the left stands Democrat Doug Jones, a mild-mannered former U.S. attorney, who has a real chance of winning a state that Donald Trump won by 28 points just 13 months ago.
Nearby, in a Trump+20193 county, volunteers knocked on 15,700 doors in an effort to replace the state legislature's most notorious homophobe with a mild-mannered local business leader married to his husband.
Mr. Mnuchin, a mild-mannered former Goldman Sachs banker, attempted to move on from the flurry of controversies he faced this summer, trying to stay focused on crafting the Trump administration's tax policy.
While it's possible that the director and cinematographer Chris Moukarbel is good at withholding unflattering material, Gaga comes off well, and credibly so: intelligent, an accomplished craftswoman, a well-mannered collaborator and boss.
Well-mannered soul that you are, you have nodded and smiled and tried to pay attention through various tangents and emendations as your friend leads you through a thousand pages worth of plot.
The normally mild-mannered Oscar de la Hoya left the ring swearing in every direction and, though there were calls for a rematch, this was the only occasion these two fought each other.
The Rockets led by as many as 11 in a first half that saw the Celtics guilty of 19 personal and three technical fouls, one of them to the normally mild-mannered Stevens.
"Olivia de Havilland has made efforts, spent time and money, protecting her well-defined public image as one who does not engage in gossip and other unkind, ill-mannered behavior," the lawsuit reads.
Once, when Goldwater left a Dallas hotel by car ahead of schedule without the regular retinue of reporters, Mr. Gold frantically sought out his mild-mannered boss, Paul F. Wagner, to inform him.
But a display of late collages by Krasner, in the Paul Kasmin Gallery, here at the Art Show, is dreary; by the '80s, her mélanges of shapes and stains had grown decidedly mannered.
Many aides in the West Wing described themselves as shocked at the allegations, which they said are not in character with the mild-mannered lawyer they have worked alongside over the past year.
Mr. Trump has certainly been aggressive if not very policy-oriented, and he has proved that you can run an atavistic, substance-free campaign and still win — even in the mild-mannered Midwest.
The latest film from Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos, it's less stylistically off-putting than some of his grimmer, more mannered fare — like The Lobster or Dogtooth, both of which netted him Oscar nominations.
If so, it's because he has given younger painters a way out of their own race with art criticism, academic theory, shopworn irony, heartless formalism, and mannered diffidence as if painting had no future.
By day at least, he was still that neat well-mannered boy from the Mary Ellen McCormack housing project who would sort out local bullies with threats, or lightning fists, to help the weak.
While Cohn and Mnuchin differ stylistically — Cohn is brash and physically imposing while Mnuchin is mild-mannered — sources who've been meeting with them say they share the same philosophy: Go big or go home.
What I don't understand is why there is that gap and how he can turn from a mild-mannered taxi driver taking young vulnerable women home, and on other occasions turn into a killer.
Cipollone, a former corporate lawyer and law clerk, is known for his mild-mannered demeanor and has mostly kept a low profile since assuming the position of White House counsel in October of 2018.
This was part of a generally dull concert by the festival orchestra under the direction of Matthew Halls that included a dispirited Mendelssohn Overture and a mild-mannered rendition of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8.
A mild-mannered California native who rarely allowed himself to be quoted in the media, Hofeller may be more responsible for the Republican majority in Congress than any other single person in modern politics.
And Doug Funnie, the show's main character, was a mild-mannered 11-year-old navigating through this world in a fictional town called Bluffington and documented each day's happenings in his journal before bed.
PEBBLE BEACH, CA. (Reuters) - Mild-mannered Louis Oosthuizen is not prone to getting too excited on the golf course, but he made an exception for an early eagle at the U.S. Open on Thursday.
And then there is Republican Roy Moore, the not-so-mild-mannered former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who is accused of child molestation and trying to date teenagers half his age.
" Conte, a law professor with no political affiliation, added: "The language of this government will be mild-mannered because we understand that our actions will not be judged by the arrogance of our words.
Mr. Sessions is in many ways Mr. Trump's antithesis: reedy-voiced, diminutive and mild-mannered, a devout Methodist and an Eagle Scout who will soon celebrate a golden wedding anniversary with his college sweetheart.
The mild-mannered world number 20 was not too keen to get involved in the hype over United States player Patrick Reed's widely-condemned rule violation at the Hero World Challenge over the weekend.
I'm sorry that I will not accept an accusation of being sexist for being put off when any ill-mannered person, male or female, puts his or her dirty shoes on the president's couch.
The image above began its now-wild internet life as a mild-mannered stock photo, one of a series by photographer Antonio Guillem that's available to license through the popular stock photo website Shutterstock.
According to Science Daily, however, the researchers note that the age discrepancy could be because women have a different subtype of ADHD which results in more mild-mannered behavior than seen in boys with ADHD.
She just wants to know what led a mild-mannered dad like Mr. Raymond to amass enough explosives to be labeled a terrorist and later commit suicide before a murderous ninja could kill him herself.
This is when the fifth Beatle steps in, carefully working with the sensitive young composer to score a string quartet that perfectly captures the pathos of the melody and lyric without sounding mannered and slick.
They'd use the same mannered, lumpy humorlessness as a stand-in for depth, unaware that the key appeal of fast-living Ron Woodruff was how he reminded us a bit of the man playing him.
Kennedy left an indelible mark on American society in his three decades as a mild-mannered and professorial justice on the Supreme Court, in areas as varied as abortion, the death penalty and political spending.
With the deal now on shaky ground after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out, the 20033-year-old mild-mannered cleric faces the prospect of serving out his second term as a lame duck leader.
Terezakis, who's been in the business of effects since 1987, is a friendly, mild-mannered Canadian — not exactly the sort of person you'd suspect would be behind some of The X-Files' most ghastly creatures.
Yet the Sunday result revealed a country more evenly divided between the two candidates, with a slight advantage for Mr. Kuczynski, a mild-mannered former World Bank official who appealed to voters as a technocrat.
Here was sweet, congenial, insightful Steve Kerr—son of career diplomat, popular around the league, a mild-mannered California dude known for always saying and doing the right thing—losing control, and his temper, too.
It's as though this hapless, mild-mannered man, who had spent his life pushed to and fro by his domineering military friends, had had enough of constantly being at the beck and call of others.
Her career is always the subtext, and in a telling early entry she visits Robert Gottlieb, the editor in chief of Knopf, and finds him mannered with his own mythology ("Famous for Never Having Lunch").
"Stuber," which begins its international roll-out on Wednesday, revolves around a mild-mannered Uber driver who picks up a Los Angeles detective who turns out to be on the trail of a brutal killer.
More mild-mannered than Mr. Dimonda, Mr. Statella came to America from Italy the same year, 1961, and also started working in barbershops as a boy in impoverished postwar Southern Italy (Sicily in his case).
When Anne Trubek, the author of "The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting," started studying the resurgence of cursive about a decade ago, reasons for teaching it focused on developing a civilized, well-mannered population.
Before "Jimbo," tennis stars had been mild-mannered crooners such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe and Stan Smith, who with their wood rackets and white clothes personified the sport's longstanding culture of civility.
And as the president-elect spends his days lashing out on Twitter, it's a relief to retreat into the stuffy drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace, where being well mannered is part of everyone's job description.
In the hands of Bmuet(te), deconstruction techniques resulted in a mild-mannered collection that, for all its "Hunger Games" references and evident skill (that trouser-legged coat was pretty cool), felt somehow anatomically deficient.
The tyrannical auteur of the zombie movie (Takayuki Hamatsu) is revealed to be a mild-mannered hack — his motto is "fast, cheap, but average" — who channels years of frustration into one glorious explosion of creativity.
All this built upon the now days-long controversy engulfing Northam's administration after the mild-mannered Democrat admitted -- and later denied -- that he was in a racist photo that appeared in his medical school yearbook.
"Blanchett succeeds in a performance that is delightful and yet touching; mannered and tomboyish, delighting in saying exactly what she means, she shrewdly sizes up Hughes and is quick to be concerned about his eccentricities."
Some are pretentiously mannered, like a later photo of Thierry shrouded in a gauzy white sheet; a pants-free selfie in a bathroom mirror is barely more artful than the thousands sent daily on Grindr.
As such, the popular image of the survivalist is changing, from wild-eyed cave dweller in camouflage fatigues, hoarding canned goods, to the mild-mannered executive or lawyer or insurance salesman who lives next door.
That's a far cry from the mild-mannered student whom friends in Windsor, Ontario, recalled as possessing "no leadership qualities" and who was deemed "most likely to become a scholar" in his high school yearbook.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Olaf Scholz, the mild-mannered, pragmatic mayor of Hamburg who could become Germany's next finance minister, had a baptism of fire last summer during violent riots surrounding the G20 summit in his city.
Things decline on the album's second half, as the moist guitar licks, random sampled noises, and strange paucity of danceable rhythm tracks start to blur, congealing into mannered stylistic juxtapositions for the sake of eclecticism.
In the sweet, mannered, Austenian universe of Crazy Rich Asians, when Peik Lin says, "Bawk, bawk, bitch," or tiptoes through a lavish house party in designer pajamas, she's being about as unruly as anyone could manage.
The personal attack by Alain Juppe on frontrunner Francois Fillon, both known until now as mild-mannered former prime ministers, heralded a hard-fought final week of campaigning before the primary's runoff voting round on Sunday.
More recently, Lee has kept up Samsung's relationships with the likes of Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet CEO Larry Page, and he's generally considered to be a mild-mannered, friendly character.
The experience of Mr Mistry's last weeks, during which the mild-mannered Indian executive turned into something like an American-style corporate raider, might just be enough to persuade him to let the new chairman lead.
For five seasons, Vince Gilligan's "Breaking Bad" kept fans on the edges of their seats with the story of how Walter White (Bryan Cranston) went from a mild-mannered chemistry teacher to a vindictive drug lord.
Mr Hoult plays him with pained sensitivity, but he is so mild-mannered that his most reckless act of rebellion is to look on quietly as Edith throws a sugar cube onto a nearby lady's hat.
Donald Trump's first speech as the presumptive GOP nominee was conciliatory, mild-mannered, and as full of half-truths and unverifiable bluster as everything else he's said over the course of this increasingly weird primary campaign.
The normally mild-mannered Carson has been on the warpath against Cruz, ripping the Iowa caucus night claims from the Cruz campaign that Carson would be dropping out and that his backers should back Cruz instead.
For an hour and a half on Tuesday night, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee parried with Democrat Tim Kaine as if Trump were as mild mannered as Mitt Romney and as doctrinaire as Paul Ryan.
By Monday, he was back on a set, this time in a different century, surrounded by new people and ready to take on a character that couldn't be more different from mild-mannered footman Mr. Molesley.
Also, well mannered, perma-tanned from jaunts to the Caribbean and Ibiza, and close to their families, which usually reside in large gated houses with swimming pools and tennis courts less than an hour from London.
He's big, he's green, he's beefy as heck, but at the core of the strongest Avenger is a mild-mannered super genius who has been canonically incapable of having an orgasm for at least a decade.
All of these normal, mild-mannered people getting ready for a nice, old-fashioned Holocaust tour and me, a cynical asshole here to write about the whole spectacle and hopefully capture the ridiculousness of it all.
The idea of a dancer being in his or her prime is meaningless; sometimes the oldest dancer in the room is the most enthralling of them all — the lightest, the most precise and the least mannered.
The poinsettia is named for Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first American ambassador to Mexico (and mild-mannered botanist), who observed the shrub in the early 1800s and shipped a few north to his South Carolina greenhouses.
The entry of the mild-mannered Mr. Iger and his squeaky-clean company into the arena shows how President Trump has a way of drawing people and corporations once considered apolitical into the red-hot center.
For months he lagged in opinion polls behind Alain Juppe, a mild-mannered, more centrist former prime minister who is his main rival for the November primaries that will choose a conservative candidate for the election.
The more compelling story lines belong to Charlie Creed-Miles as George, a mild-mannered cabdriver who seems a magnet for bad luck, and Franz Drameh as Kingsley, a small-time drug dealer with literary aspirations.
Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, is a mild-mannered chemistry teacher who finds himself making meth in the Albuquerque drug scene in order to make money to support his family following his terminal cancer diagnosis.
" In it, he argued that Judge Gorsuch "may be all mild-mannered and cuddly, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't in a heartbeat deny your very existence under the Constitution if you happen to be queer.
Robert Eggers — whose last film, the wild 2015 horror movie The Witch, lit Sundance on fire when it premiered — has clearly established himself as a no-holds-barred auteur of dread, madness, and mannered period dialogue.
Meade, a mild-mannered technocrat with Cabinet positions in multiple PRI administrations, had struggled in vain to address the issue of corruption, which Lopez Obrador made the central issue of a campaign that resonated strongly with Mexicans.
It's an ambitious way of separating the two foils, by implying they literally inhabit different worlds, but it feels too conscious and mannered, and the transitions are as jarring as channel-surfing between two movies at once.
Richmond, with its red-brick, mock Georgian houses, ancient oak and magnolia, and often beautifully mannered residents, has a bitter history largely shaped by the civil war and its chief cause: the South's attempt to perpetuate slavery.
They eventually run into and team up with mild-mannered Mitch, who's trying to survive in the gig economy and Van, a dudebro who's become a viral star by live-streaming his hunts on the Huntr app.
The offer is a huge statement of intent from the mild-mannered media mogul Roberts, 58, who took over as head of the cable and entertainment conglomerate from his father, Ralph, who founded the company in 1963.
Hollywood loves to tip conventions on their head: The picture-perfect married travel agents who are Russian spies; the suburban mom who becomes a drug dealer; the mild-mannered police tech who doubles as a serial killer.
Jeb Bush as "low energy," and while the dig seems very mild compared to other nicknames Trump had for his opponents like "Crooked Hillary" and "Lyin' Ted," the insult stuck to the mild-mannered Bush like glue.
What could be more idiosyncratic than my fondness for the very aspects of the film that someone else could legitimately complain about: its naked, conventional wish fulfillment, its fetishization of self-sacrifice, and Davis's fiercely mannered performance?
Looking youthful in a navy blue windbreaker and running shoes, the mild-mannered Mr. Ruscha — who was ranked among the 10 most expensive living American artists by Artnet last year — discussed his career in carefully chosen words.
A Norwegian-born bassist with a big, dark tone and precision chops, Opsvik writes music with an irreverent intensity, adhering to no single style and showing little interest in the mannered formality of so much progressive jazz.
His own education in governing began in 2011 with a slight, when the military backed U Thein Sein, a mild-mannered bureaucrat with little battlefield experience, to become president, rather than the openly ambitious Mr. Shwe Mann.
LONDON — When Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain convened his new cabinet on Friday, it looked less like a conclave of powerful government officials than a well-mannered classroom on the day the headmaster came to visit.
Rouhani, long known as a cautious and mild-mannered establishment insider, reinvented himself as a bold champion of reform during the election campaign, which culminated on Friday in victory with more than 57 percent of the vote.
But in a piece like Bellini's "La Sonnambula," in which Mr. Camarena caused a sensation at the Met in 2014, he has few if any equals, guiding phrases with a poise that never feels artificial or mannered.
Mike Conaway -- a mild-mannered Republican who used to be friendly with Chairman Adam Schiff -- berated him as the first impeachment hearing closed because Schiff didn't want to entertain debate over issuing a subpoena to the whistleblower.
McQueen arranges his actors in a series of long-held, reluctantly pretty tableaux, as mannered as a landscape of the Hudson River School—as something, in other words, that Northup might have had the cultivation to appreciate.
Sport is a statistics-obsessed neat freak who makes the most outlandish production through meticulous tinkering and then there's Hak, a mild-mannered New England art student who only gave rapping a go because Wiki persuaded him to.
Standing in the lobby of Vienna's experimental theater Schauspielhaus Wien with 30 or so well-mannered Austrians, there's a nervous hush as we huddle around a rusty metal door, unsure of what to expect on the other side.
The other threat is that Trump's belligerence will encourage open revolt in Mexico—that, if the economy collapses, the mild-mannered protesters I saw on Reforma Avenue will give way to a new generation of post-Zapatista revolutionaries.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama accused Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison of insulting leaders of Pacific island nations during a regional summit earlier this week, and said Chinese officials were far more tactful and better mannered.
The families were chatting politely over coffee when Mr. Pence, a mild-mannered Midwesterner, delivered an uncharacteristically impassioned monologue, according to people with direct knowledge of his remarks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the meeting.
She had appeared on two episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" series as well, as a genie with a mild-mannered new master and as a glamorous single woman who unwittingly drinks an all-too-effective love potion.
Julia Albertsson is typical of the well-mannered, conscientious teenagers attending the school, and though she could never be described as cocky or arrogant, the 17-year-old is crystal clear about her burning ambition to emulate Kalla.
Where He Stands: Kasich has sought to appeal to moderates throughout the GOP nominating contest, positioning himself as a mild-mannered and statesmanly pragmatist in a race that's been marked by heated rhetoric and shifts to the right.
The bond market is the larger, mild-mannered cousin of the more theatrical stock market, and bonds don't move as sharply — the S&P 500 was up 4.6 percent on Monday, after skidding over 11 percent last week.
In Missouri, home to one of the nation's most competitive Senate races, Mr. Trump swooped in this month to headline a fund-raiser for Josh Hawley, the mild-mannered state attorney general challenging Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat.
Sitting as it does at the heart of London, the Two Cities district covers not only Buckingham Palace and Parliament but also the well-mannered homes of many senior lawmakers, making it a trophy scalp for the opposition.
SAN DIEGO — In what may be the first of several moves by the Mets to look to the future, the team dealt first baseman Lucas Duda, their mild-mannered power hitter, to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday.
It seems diabolical of the mild-mannered student, but let's not forget that she also dumped a Pop's milkshake on Veronica (Camila Mendes), and seemed to be cutting out letters for those threatening letters the production received before showtime.
Normally known as a mild-mannered pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer, Rouhani has tried to fire up the pro-reform camp with speeches that break taboos by making open references to human rights abuse by the authorities.
Unlike Trump, the mild-mannered, Midwestern governor is hardly a natural attack dog, and the former radio show host appears far more comfortable sitting at a Sunday show roundtable than revving up a large crowd at a campaign rally.
Just over a year ago, Meadows, a mild-mannered second term lawmaker who was worried Boehner wasn't taking a hard line in spending negotiations with the White House, threatened to force a no-confidence vote that might have succeeded.
The jury praised Bowles' brilliant and creative use of an exaggeratedly antiquated diction and syntax to craft a self-consciously ornate and mannered text that succeeds in capturing the comic archness of Kracht's prose style for English-language readers.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Known for years as a mild-mannered cleric, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has reinvented himself as a rabble-rousing political street fighter to shore up his chances in an unexpectedly tight race against a united conservative bloc.
Backed by establishment figures and pressure from the markets, the three mild-mannered men had tamed the anti-EU populists within the ruling League and 5-Star Movement, and had forced them to abandon their damaging fight with Brussels.
Women often told Ms. Neill that they had been inspired to go into journalism by seeing her character work as an equal alongside newspapermen, but Ms. Neill saw her Lois as mild-mannered, a reflection of the prefeminist 1950s.
" McElroy, a mild-mannered white man in his 217s with a genteel lilt to his speech, told me that "the ultimate success" for a Chapter 2130 filing is "to pay it out, get a discharge, get out of debt.
She is part of a generation of younger Mexican architects who have moved away from iconic, mannered work, said Miquel Adrià, an architect and director of the architectural magazine Arquine, and adopted a more inclusive approach based on dialogue.
His trademark as a filmmaker is a tight, stylized script delivered by actors whom he directs so well that the dialogue feels natural, which keeps him out of the sometimes overly mannered territory of a screenwriter like Aaron Sorkin.
The mild-mannered Ravic, an Alice Cooper fan, has a heavy-metal look that jars with the surroundings: long black hair, rings on eight fingers, a black leather jacket, and black cowboy boots studded with nails and tiny skulls.
Trump just picked a fight with our closest NATO allies, including Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who Trump's team said "stabbed us in the back" after Trudeau's mild-mannered defense of his own country's trade policy on dairy imports.
Roger Stone, the Trump adviser and former Nixon aide, who specializes in political provocation, tweeted that Kaine's performance revealed the mild-mannered senator to be an "obnoxious asshole," a declaration that, given the circumstances, was received as high praise.
Elizabeth Colomba, a Martinican painter of languorous black women in lush surroundings, had an intriguing show last year at the Long Gallery in Harlem, but the two examples here are airless and mannered, and too reliant on gold leaf.
" According to Ken Rea, one of Lewis's professors, he arrived at Guildhall "an articulate, well-mannered young man with a bit of a polite façade," and left with "the complete raw vulnerability that really grabs you as an audience.
Ceviches and tiraditos, a quinoa salad and a paella kept warm on a table burner are some of the specialties served in the well-mannered dining room: 41-16 Queens Boulevard (41st Street), Sunnyside, Queens, 718-583-6736, dayboatnyc.com.
After all, the descriptions are odd: "mild-mannered, very warm and sincere" sounds like an alien's approximation of a real human being and show how the very structure of the story form can distort and skew the characters being depicted.
It reminds me, to an extent, of a movie written by my father, Rafael Yglesias, Fearless, in which a mild-mannered architect survives a deadly plane crash and ends up convinced that he's invincible rather than the beneficiary of good luck.
In the case of The Boys, the cracks come in the form of two people: mild-mannered tech salesperson Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) and Starlight, aka Annie January (Erin Moriarty), the newest member of Vought's premiere superhero squad, The Seven.
Salvini is often accused by critics of being a bully or even a "fascist," but he himself was pummeled in parliament on Tuesday by his mild-mannered prime minister, who blamed him for putting personal ambition ahead of the country.
Salvini is often accused by critics of being a bully or even a "fascist," but he himself was pummelled in parliament on Tuesday by his mild-mannered prime minister, who blamed him for putting personal ambition ahead of the country.
At the starting gate: Clinton leads Trump by double-digits Moreover, as Clinton has struggled to excite the Democratic base, it's far from clear that Kaine -- a mild-mannered and affable 58-year-old -- would be able to do just that.
In his heyday, unlike those mild-mannered contemporary operatives, he was suspected of plotting murder, and accused by the news media of beating his wife, who died in a car crash in Palm Springs just before a planned divorce filing.
Gugu went to support groups as well, and we noticed that the person running the group was so extremely mild-mannered and kind of amazing, and I thought Steve would be perfect to bring that energy to the group sessions.
Image: NetflixDuring Episode 2, which debunks alternative medicine, Nye and science communicator Cara Santa Maria repeatedly gang up on another guest, the mild-mannered filmmaker Donald Schultz, when he suggests that some non-Western medicine practices might not be entirely bogus.
As congressional Republicans across the country grapple with the Trump effect on their home-state campaigns, the mild-mannered Portman, 60, may be pointing the way forward in his race, the nation's most expensive Senate contest so far this year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anthony Kennedy left an indelible mark on American society in his three decades as a mild-mannered and professorial justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in areas as varied as gay rights, abortion, the death penalty and political spending.
What was once a lovely place to spend a rainy afternoon is now a wallet-draining, ad-saturated hellhole starring overpriced, overly salty snacks, long bathroom lines, and bad-mannered kids who definitely aren't old enough to be in here.
His lack of development as an artist was suggested by his mannered performance of Beethoven's late Sonata No. 30 in E. Like his mentor, Mr. Lando had a penchant for pulling phrases out of shape with expressive tugs and twists.
Mr. Portman, a mild-mannered Washington insider who defied his party by embracing same-sex marriage in 2013 after learning that one of his sons was gay, sighed when asked if Mr. Trump had the right temperament to be president.
"Swimming Pool," François Ozon's first English-language film (with a bit of French thrown in for local color), "is simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
In the equally haunting "The Look of Silence," the director Joshua Oppenheimer follows a mild-mannered optometrist as he confronts his brother's killers from that era, some of whom are still in power today while others have become his patients.
I've had conversations with very polite and mild-mannered people who have followed the band for longer than I have, and I've spoken with 50-something-year-old first-timers who are very excited to hear a particular song or two.
The pedestrian mall in the middle of this post-industrial college town, where there are one-sixth as many orange Volunteers as ordinary citizens, is a polite mix of chain restaurants and revamped Dixieland cuisine, mild-mannered bars and quaint boutiques.
Jared Leto and Eddie Redmayne were lauded for their courage in portraying trans women on film ("Dallas Buyers Club" and "The Danish Girl") — but not so much by transgender women themselves, many of whom found the performances mannered, studied and implausible.
Hadfield said what made Rangers teams of that era unique was the players' closeness, exemplified by the mild-mannered yet intense Ratelle, whose 109 points in 1971-113 are second-most in franchise history (behind Jaromir Jagr's 123 in 2005-06).
Do a few jokey neon signs like "My Name as Though it were Written on the Surface of the Moon" (1968) excuse the mannered aggression of a drawing that asks us to meditate on the words "Shit and Die" (1985)?
Even more original and entertaining were the story lines involving the middle schoolers Kevin (Alex Hibbert), Papa (Shamon Brown Jr.) and Maisha (Genesis Denise Hale), whose hilariously passive-aggressive pursuit of the mild-mannered Kevin was the show's single best idea.
Ms. Stewart has named a French bulldog after him, as well as a leather tote, a shade of paint ("Sharkey Grey" was exclusively sold at Home Depot) and a cartoon character in a stiffly mannered children's animated web series she created.
The music video for Puth's latest catchy hit characterizes him as a teenage boy who is "a nice boy, so well-mannered" in front of his girlfriend's parents, but transforms into a rebellious teenager the moment they leave her house.
This summer, however, almost 150 years after Darwin published his sexual selection theory to mixed reception, Richard Prum, a mild-mannered ornithologist and museum curator from Yale, has published a book intended to win Darwin's sex theory a more climactic victory.
Nikos Konstandaras ATHENS — Many Greeks were surprised when a mild-mannered former prime minister who tried to use unity and consensus to lead the country out of an economic and political impasse was seriously injured by a parcel bomb last month.
In the speech, Bennet, a mild-mannered lawmaker who speaks with an air of pragmatic optimism, passionately talks about the government shutdown and raises his voice as he accuses Cruz of "crocodile tears" for lamenting a tactic he once used himself.
Flowers were piled knee-deep at the gates of the royal palaces; grown men wept openly in the streets; mild-mannered citizens inveighed against the usually blameless queen for what they believed was an inadequate response to a national crisis.
That same month, he was one of about 30 House Republicans who interrupted the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment investigation by storming the committee's secure offices; normally mild-mannered, he reportedly yelled in the face of Adam Schiff, the committee's chairman.
Alan Colmes, who for 12 years was a mild-mannered and moderately liberal sparring partner to the conservative firebrand Sean Hannity in Fox News Channel's most conspicuous effort to fulfill its "fair and balanced" credo, died on Thursday in Manhattan.
"I worry for the institution," said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, who broke with her colleagues last year in calling for a hearing and a vote on Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Barack Obama's own plainly qualified, mild-mannered nominee.
The straight-laced, well-mannered disposition has become a key part of his campaign aesthetic and appeal to his supporters, the slow, lilting cadence and measured matter-of-factness of his speech reminiscent of someone doing their best Obama impression.
The bitter yearlong campaign for the presidency pitted Norbert Hofer, a leader of the far-right Freedom Party, founded in the 1950s by former Nazis, against a mild-mannered 72-year-old former Green Party leader, Alexander Van der Bellen.
Conducting a criminal investigation of an executive isn't just risky; in addition to jeopardizing a future partnership at a prestigious law firm, perhaps most important, it incurs "social discomfort," especially for the well-mannered overachievers who now populate the Justice Department.
Recorded in collaboration with Brian Eno during Bowie's Berlin period, the 543's album's seeping mixture of vaporous synthesizer excursions and great serpentine structures were a far cry from the mannered orchestrations and fistfuls of glitter that launched the space-age icon's career.
The theme song alone should get you pretty pumped up to watch: One Punch Man, based on the manga of the same name, centers around Saitama, a mild-mannered man who decides one day that he wants to become a hero for fun.
It's the same trick that more recent fantasy books like The Magicians use to ground their magic in something ordinary and everyday — it's just that Harry Potter's British boarding school story is more old-fashioned and mannered than The Magicians' American college story.
The competition is stiff, but the front-runner appears to be Ajit Pai, the mild-mannered 44-year-old chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who has recently provoked the Twitter ire of famous faces like Cher, Alyssa Milano, and John Oliver.
After their mother died in a car crash, they were rescued and raised by a nearby commune of mild-mannered, vaguely dazed-looking people who make a living by brewing and selling beer and performing other odd jobs for the nearby community.
He is a mild-mannered Wisconsinite unrelated to the president who rose through Republican party ranks and urged Mr Trump to drop out of the presidential race after a tape surfaced in which the then-candidate boasted that he grabbed women's genitals.
Before the screening, international programmer Colin Geddes got up and talked about how great and well-mannered TIFF audiences were, and I thought he was just stroking our egos, but he was right — this was a fun group to watch a movie with.
The group's unofficial leader, Muzammil—a mild-mannered 23-year-old from Kashmir with a narrow, angular face and a sharp hook of a nose—said that it wasn't hard for him to find someone to help him organize passage to Brazil.
In fact, it irritated me so much that I am now using words, like "cross," that are mannered and fake — just like the grimaces, the searching looks and the stock images of bureaucrats blowing gaskets that assaulted our eyes and ears this week.
The White House had invited red state Democratic senators to the party -- twisting the knife since Trump's selection of the mild-mannered Kavanaugh may prove tough to oppose for those up for re-election in states where Trump won big in 2016.
By the time Vieira was tossed during the water break at the 30th minute, the usually mild-mannered coach had already gone to war with a few Red Bulls fans behind his bench, telling them to "shut up" while using an expletive.
For all the points that the heretofore mild-mannered Ingram won with teammates for standing up for himself and his teammates, playing short-handed for the rest of the month isn't going to help the new Lakers as they try to find themselves.
Boasting of his skill at winning concessions from Senator Mitch McConnell, the immovable Republican majority leader, Mr. Biden suddenly found himself under fire from Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, a mild-mannered moderate who depicted Mr. Biden's deal making as a fiasco.
As the Reverend John Hale, the young minister sent to cast the devil out of Salem, Mr. Strutzenberger is hypnotic in his smoldering mix of tension and craftiness; a deceptively mild-mannered outsider whose convictions lead him first to zealotry and then remorse.
This is as true of the singer-songwriter Mitski as it is of anyone, apart from the wrinkle that she already has a singing voice like a piece of prose: It's precise and mannered, moving methodically from note to note with total composure.
The race between Mr. Kobach, also known nationally for dire warnings about illegal immigration, and Mr. Colyer, a comparatively mild-mannered plastic surgeon who has been governor less than seven months, had attracted national interest long before the razor-thin vote total.
Mr. Sallis's odyssey as Wallace, a mild-mannered inventor who lives in a house full of contraptions with his intelligent and expressive dog assistant, Gromit, began in 1983 when Nick Park asked him to read for the role in a student film.
At lunchtime I read a paper newspaper; I have a ridiculous, old-fashioned prejudice against newspapers online, but somehow it seems perfectly well mannered to read a newspaper at the lunch table where it would seem rude to read from a screen.
Hornacek remained calm after his Knicks fell behind by 22 points not quite midway through the second quarter of their game against the Phoenix Suns; he kept his cool when his mild-mannered rookie, Kristaps Porzingis, momentarily lost his in the third.
But while few modern religions seem to blend pragmatism and prophecy quite so seamlessly, the Mormon church's often mild-mannered and institutionally minded presidents rarely match the biblical image of prophets as wild-haired social critics who feed on locusts and honey.
The Chrismans say they don't have many friends, that their lifestyle sets them apart from the community around them; as a couple, they seem introverted and self-contained, mild-mannered people made more cautious by the attention they get whenever they go outside.
With an expletive name that's a satirical nod to the banal pleasantries that permeate daily conversation — and a sendup of the overly mannered world of fragrance — it is currently being reconfigured into a woody, spicy and slightly fruity perfume for release this fall.
But the Constitution is silent about the trial's actual mechanics, raising questions about whether the mild-mannered, 28500-year old jurist will play a mostly ceremonial role overseeing the trial or be dragged into the political fight and forced to make consequential decisions.
The Walking Dead returned Sunday night with the mid-season premiere of Season 9, picking up where we left off in November, with mild-mannered Negan finding his jail cell unlocked and the Whisperers — humans wearing zombie skins — making themselves a known threat.
With an expletive name that's a satirical nod to the banal pleasantries that permeate daily conversation — and a sendup of the overly mannered world of fragrance — it is currently being reconfigured into a woody, spicy and slightly fruity perfume for release this fall.
Instead, I did the next best thing and hopped a couple of United flights to Wyoming for a seven-hour Verbal Judo class, which I completed alongside 20 mild-mannered court clerks from around the state and one soft-spoken security officer.
But the real breakout star of Good Girls Revolt is Erin Darke as Cindy, a seemingly mild-mannered captions editor whose miserable marriage ends up empowering her to be so much bolder outside the confines of her cold apartment than she ever could've imagined.
Many in America believe, rightly or wrongly, that as crass as he is, as ill-mannered as he can be, and as untutored in the dark arts of the Beltway and international politics as he is, Mr Trump has a point and is their champion.
Instead, the finalists are Donald Trump, a joke candidate turned dominant front-runner; Ted Cruz, the "most hated man in the Senate"; and John Kasich, a mild-mannered Midwestern governor who looked doomed (and probably still is) to a Jon Huntsman-style also-ran finish.
It's true that Ossoff hasn't distinguished himself as a populist firebrand or leftist ideologue, but rather as a "mild-mannered, centrist candidate," in the words of Ed Kilgore, a New York magazine columnist and former policy director for the now-defunct centrist Democratic Leadership Council.
I imagine Bronwen Riley's travel companion, Julius Severus, to have been not unlike some upper-class English functionary on his way to a distant imperial posting a century ago — cool, confident, well educated, well mannered, sometimes arrogant and perhaps rather too pleased with himself.
Kirkman, mild-mannered but firm, evenhanded but paternalistic to the women and children in his life, is a perfect role for Mr. Sutherland, and tuning in to see him save the country each week may be one of the new TV season's prime guilty pleasures.
ISTANBUL — Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that a mild-mannered Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania was pulling the strings of a coup attempt last week that almost succeeded in taking over the state, and killing Mr. Erdogan himself.
Mike Riley watched his Oregon State teams drop seven straight "Civil War" games to Oregon before he bolted for Nebraska in December of 2014, so it should come as no surprise if the usually mild-mannered coach is a bit more amped up this week.
An accident jettisons an iron rod through the left frontal lobe of a mild-­mannered railroad foreman named Phineas Gage, transforming him into a full-bore hellion, thus allowing researchers to begin deducing the functions of those oversized saddlebags behind our forehead and eyes.
Needless to say, the pervasiveness of hardcore drinking in America is a source of concern for public health researchers who have been trying to shed light on the mechanism through which a mild-mannered individual can morph into a hot mess in mere hours.
Chase & Status' mannered sound might have seemed too bass-heavy for the Cariocas to get excited yet, but it was bumping enough for the athletes to be able to let go of all their pent-up tension from months of unrelenting training and competition.
Reading her menus—one included fennel taralli; burrata with fennel, roasted peppers, anchovies, and capers; spaghetti and shellfish al cartoccio; and ricotta ice cream with candied lemon and pistachios—was enough, recently, to compel a normally well-mannered person to angle for an invitation.
But when Yoko Shimomura—the one actually responsible for composing all the music we were there to hear that night—finally emerged onstage, she appeared as mild-mannered and modest as a high school piano teacher, even as fans welcomed her with rapturous applause.
According to the rumor mill, the mild-mannered Mr. Hunt was the candidate that Mr. Johnson most wanted to face in the runoff, and all day Thursday there was speculation in Parliament of tactical voting by his supporters to eliminate Michael Gove, the environment secretary.
But Fiver is right — the culprit is humans, who gas and excavate the colony to make way for a housing development — and the mild-mannered Hazel leads a small group on a postapocalyptic exodus to a distant hill, the promised land Fiver has envisioned.
The contenders so far include two of Mr. Trump's closest allies from the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, a Georgian well-liked by top House leaders and a mild-mannered elder statesman who played a key role in the last presidential impeachment two decades ago.
In Mr. Massini's understanding, trouble found its true engine when the last of the actual Lehmans ran Lehman Brothers and management was given over to the ambitious roughnecks in the trading division rather than the well-mannered investment bankers who had been in charge.
Floral colors dominate the palette, but for all its cheekiness, the painting is well mannered enough to keep its more aggressive visual contents fairly clear of its outside edge, concentrated within a margin consisting of an airbrushed haze in tints of marigold and tangerine.
Critics in the political center and right have struggled to respond to this swerve to the left, but one common response has been: This is not your father's (or grandfather's) D.S.A. — which is to say it is not well mannered, slightly tweedy, even academic.
The messages Mr. Encarnación received were identical to a series of texts sent to Alejandro Calvillo, a mild-mannered activist and founder of El Poder del Consumidor, yet another Mexico City organization that has been at the forefront of battling childhood obesity in the country.
Speaking at the Quirinal Palace on Monday night after a third, and apparently final, round of fruitless consultations with party leaders, the mild-mannered Mr. Mattarella seemed a bit vexed as he called the situation "anomalous" and admonished the politicians for their lack of progress.
The hypocrisy and injustice become all-consuming, and our mild-mannered reverend turns into something between a hero and a zealot, a clergy robe–wearing Travis Bickle for our time (makes sense, since the writer and director here is Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader).
Pudgy and mild-mannered, he is eager to please, quick to embrace, and, when he is offended or patronized—something I saw happen more than once in the halls and offices of the Knesset—he recedes, wincing slightly, as if experiencing an unpleasant digestive event.
The story of her rise, from the well-mannered daughter of a Baltimore mayor to a savvy legislator and prolific fund-raiser who is as much feared within her caucus as she is admired, is, in some ways, the story of the women's movement itself.
After fatalistically choking out middleweights before turning into a mediocre kickboxer, Maia has come full circle at 170 pounds: he's the mild-mannered, sound-bite-free embodiment of BJJ orthodoxy, where grappling is the solution to every problem in the street or in the cage.
But there are very good reasons the episode paints the seemingly mild-mannered genius programmer Bob (Jesse Plemons) as the very worst sort of human being, who literally desires to possess the people in his office, but especially his cute new coworker, Nanette (Cristin Milioti).
So the next time you get the urge to exercise free speech by unclogging that verbal diarrhea factory you call a mouth and spewing your partisan bullshit all over this studio, do us all a favor and shut the hell up, you ill-mannered, overprivileged, undereducated simpleton.
In The Monk of Mokha—a title that is perhaps meant to be ironic but comes across as patently ridiculous—the style lays bare the contradiction between the supposed focus on an individual and the mannered expression that barely allows that individual to rise above a type.
Loving loves trains — indeed, some years ago he wrote a book with a title professing just that — and he has a stiffly mannered ­approach to the delights of permanent-way passage, the kind that made E.M. Frimbo so beloved a character of the old New Yorker.
Buy it here >>The bone-chilling story of how Sidney Gottlieb — a club-footed, mild-mannered, peace-loving chemist who lived like a hippie long before the term was coined — became the fulcrum of the United States' panicked post-WWII bid for supremacy in germ warfare.
Using a playlist that moves from Adele to Pink to Royksopp and Robyn, Kelsea and her mild-mannered co-instructor, MJ (Amy Staats), lead a group that, as far as we can see, consists of two students — both of them audience members, onstage in workout clothes.
And yet he carried himself with a certain dignity, kept himself immaculately dressed and groomed, was well mannered and well spoken, and possessed an enviably large vocabulary, was almost always cheerful, and could unleash, at any moment, his one weapon of beauty, which was his smile.
That trend is both reflected and powered by the advocacy of people like Rick Steves, the mild-mannered travel writer and host of "Rick Steves' Europe," who campaigned for legalization in his home state of Washington in 2012 and now travels the country doing the same thing.
A mild-mannered academic who inherited his father's Chicagoland district, Lipinski was perhaps the most conservative Democrat in a safe seat — a personal and political opponent of abortion rights, a critic (for a while) of same-sex marriage, and an early opponent the Affordable Care Act.
Coogler played football in high school, and between his fitness and his humble listening poses — leaning forward, elbows propped on knees — he reminds me of what might happen if a mild-mannered athlete accidentally discovered a radioactive movie camera and was gifted with remarkable artistic vision.
" In June 1971, Richard Nixon sent a memo to Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman complaining that his good-natured appearance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner had been followed by a press conference in which "the reporters were considerably more bad-mannered and vicious than usual.
PARIS — The usually mild-mannered president of France pointedly reproached President Trump on Saturday after Mr. Trump commented on the dangers of terrorism in Paris, reminding the American leader of a cardinal rule in diplomacy: If you want to keep your friends, don't criticize them in public.
The admonition was aimed at Stephen K. Bannon, the tempestuous chief strategist, and Reince Priebus, the mild-mannered chief of staff, over a series of dust-ups with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, and the top economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn.
As author of "The Wind in the Willows," Grahame was the creator of the fictional Mole, a mild-mannered character beloved by children everywhere for messing about in boats, bumbling dimly into the Wild Wood and otherwise misadventuring with Ratty, Badger and Mr. Toad of Toad Hall.
Like "Sleep No More," it became a scene-y downtown hit, as audiences gorged on caviar in red banquettes and occasionally caused spectacles of their own, as when a National Review writer snatched a phone from a bad-mannered patron and hurled it across the room.
Yet Flake's sharp personal criticisms of Trump, his sponsorship of bipartisan immigration reform measures, and his relatively mild-mannered rhetoric and demeanor — which contrast dramatically with the perpetual expressions of outrage characteristic of ideologically aligned media — put him out of step with the current Republican zeitgeist.
When Hank says the line, "I don't know who you are, I don't even know who I'm talking to," he's coming to the realization that Walt, who Hank only knew as his mild mannered brother-in-law, is in fact a very powerful leader of a methamphetamine operation.
Tegan: Behind the scenes [of the video], she had all these dogs there with their owners and she'd picked dogs that were well mannered and able to perform for the video on cue.... Sara: When you're shooting a dog porn you have to know these kinds of things [laughs].
Harriet is such an interesting protagonist because she presents as very meek and mild-mannered, so for the first few chapters I kept expecting someone wilder like Perdita to take hold of the narrative, but instead Harriet just held on fast and kept revealing these hidden reserves of strength.
Jacobs—who seems pretty mild-mannered and sweet for a guy who once said he wanted to "exorcise his humanity"—also said he wants to roll back the government's influence on how Knox County is run, handing control over to the community leaders who live in the area.
With the help of a mild-mannered Bolshevik named Lev Kamenev, Stalin quickly wrested control of the Party mouthpiece, Pravda , from the younger, less experienced Vyacheslav Molotov, and proceeded to advance a moderate agenda: to remain in the war and even to seek rapprochement with the other socialist parties.
These include the mild-mannered Tcherny (André Benjamin), who misses his family back on Earth; young women named Boyse (Mia Goth), Mink (Claire Tran), and Nansen (Agata Buzek), each of them clearly troubled; Ettore (Ewan Mitchell), a pugnacious youth, best avoided; and the onboard medic, Dr. Dibs ( Juliette Binoche ).
Unlike any event featuring Donald Trump, who is often incapable of controlling what come out of his mouth, Tuesday's vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, between Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Indiana Governor Mike Pence—two controlled, mild-mannered politicians—promises to be a staid affair.
When closed simultaneously (each unit has its own controls), the matte metallic outer surface creates a neutral if mannered geometry that blends with the area's sober palette; when open, the panels extend from the individual 800- to 1,180-square-foot units to form balconies underfoot and canopies overhead.
And they had been digesting the incongruous image of Mr. Trump courting a North Korean dictator only hours after he had called their famously mild-mannered leader "very dishonest and weak" and a top Trump trade adviser had said "there's a special place in hell" for Mr. Trudeau.
Lou Barletta, a congressman from Luzerne County, who made a reputation on unflinching opposition to illegal immigrants and became an early supporter of Mr. Trump, won the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Bob Casey Jr., a mild-mannered politician who has become a relentless critic of Mr. Trump.
Characterizations don't so much develop as abruptly appear — like when mild-mannered weakling Jonah suddenly morphs into a code-reading, intel-gathering, stone-cold badass prodigy before our eyes or when characters start having moving heart-to-hearts that aren't moving at all because we've barely even met them.
This whole idea that there has to be a token and that the token has to be super perfect — I think that it stems from racism and this idea that you have to be a certain kind of cooperative, well-mannered, docile Black person or else, they'll replace you.
But it also speaks to the passions that Mr. Macron, a seemingly mild-mannered centrist, provokes in large parts of the French electorate, far left and far right, who share a view of the 39-year-old former investment banker as a fire-breathing incarnation of evil market culture.
By the time J. Dennis Hastert, a mild-mannered Republican, was chosen as speaker in early 1999, he was more interested in installing a new leadership team and policy agenda that could broaden the party's appeal than seeing through an impeachment case that Republicans saw as politically toxic.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of Manhattan, an ordinarily thoughtful and mild-mannered jurist, has just plain had it with the government, which he accused of repeatedly attempting "to halt the orderly progress of this litigation" most recently with tactics that "seem to cross" the line of sanctionable conduct.

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