And it is -- we are told -- an eloquent, statesmanlike one.
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Kenneth Clarke, the Father of the House, was the most statesmanlike.
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This is hardly Churchillian language, but it conveyed uncharacteristic statesmanlike behavior.
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She blamed her underlings at the Home Office, which was hardly statesmanlike.
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The Marshall Plan, after all, is synonymous with statesmanlike vision and vigour.
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On one hand, the leader: statesmanlike (ahem), commanding, well-spoken, imbued with gravitas.
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In tone and style, he came across as more measured, poised and statesmanlike.
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Recognizing that he couldn't keep that promise by backing off was a statesmanlike act.
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On Baseball SAN DIEGO — Carlos Beltran is a statesmanlike figure among Puerto Rican ballplayers.
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"In the meeting with the Prime Minister, he was statesmanlike, very candid," he said.
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Set against all that Dorsey's decision to take a stance against political ads looks positively statesmanlike.
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Did this signal that Trump's long-awaited "pivot" to a more conciliatory, professional and statesmanlike style?
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He expressed a statesmanlike support of "the Olympic movement" and of decisions about who could compete.
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Pep Guardiola at Barcelona is the obvious one: statesmanlike club captain turned all-conquering, era-defining manager.
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Ms Cameron notes that Ms Sturgeon moves comfortably between cut-and-thrust debate, statesmanlike speech and warmth.
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I cannot be the only person who recognizes the maturity, honesty and statesmanlike nature of that remark.
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"I wanted her to be standing there not at all sexualized, but statesmanlike," Ms. Criado-Perez said.
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By coming across as warm, jovial and eminently reasonable, the capo has morphed into something respectable, even statesmanlike.
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Mr. Trump cast his visit as a statesmanlike effort to reach out to a country he had alienated.
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Raoul Ruparel, co-director of Open Europe, a think-tank, said Cameron wanted to project a solemn, statesmanlike image.
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A statesmanlike image cultivated at the summit might encourage Mr Abe to take advantage of the opposition's present disarray.
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But on election night he was prudent and statesmanlike, saying he would wait to hear from the prime minister.
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Bob Corker makes statesmanlike speeches on the Senate floor—David against President Goliath—and then votes against his principles.
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For Mr. Massey, the task will be to appear statesmanlike and charismatic enough to win over skeptical party leaders.
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Paul Melly of Chatham House, a British think-tank, says other African leaders regard Mr Gnassingbé as "rational and statesmanlike".
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But instead of creating a split screen, Mr. Trump failed to produce the statesmanlike narrative his campaign had hoped for.
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The usually brash and outspoken Duterte appeared much more statesmanlike in China than he has on previous trips overseas, said Heydarian.
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Some political analysts believe the 40-year political veteran could be drawn to a statesmanlike-role to mentor political ingénue Ardern.
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After a statesmanlike address on Monday about national unity, President Trump preached division at a raucous rally Tuesday night in Phoenix.
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She said Booker got his statesmanlike disposition through his upbringing and continues to prove he has the temperament to be president.
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John Kerry's new memoir, like its author, is reserved and idealistic and reassuringly dull, for long stretches, in its statesmanlike carriage.
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Trump is looking to appear statesmanlike and focus ties on building a partnership for his top foreign policy priority of fighting terrorism.
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Israeli pundits think it will help Netanyahu's re-election chances, on the view that it makes him seem more capable and statesmanlike.
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After a couple of blocks, Mr. Burleigh broke left with statesmanlike authority, toward the staff entrance of the 555 East American Steakhouse.
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If he bothers me this much when he's trying to be statesmanlike, how am I going to make it through four years?
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But earlier presidents, with their statesmanlike approach, had failed utterly to achieve a goal that most Americans likely would have found desirable.
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But he adopted a studied everyman persona, which seems to have gone down better than Mr Shorten's equally studied efforts to look statesmanlike.
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But before we start lauding Romney for being a statesmanlike voice of reason and moderation, it's worth remembering a few things about him.
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Yet her public position on the Rohingya situation -- which UN Secretary-General António Guterres described as a catastrophic humanitarian crisis -- is not statesmanlike.
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His first speech after Lincoln's death was dignified, sober, statesmanlike — so much so that it worried white Southerners and heartened black community leaders.
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Sure, the Democrat contender has been producing statesmanlike readings from a teleprompter at home, but he's just not relevant to the crisis response.
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The remarks, made by Powell in private to friends and colleagues, contrast with the statesmanlike image cultivated over a long military and political career.
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The promise to jail one's political opponent cannot simultaneously be a lighthearted joke and the subject of a statesmanlike, aspirational black-and-white meme.
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Clinton's leadership and a statesmanlike lecture on her approach to issues evolved into an angrier recitation of grievances against Mr. Sanders and his fervent supporters.
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They intend to demonstrate their statesmanlike credentials with the time-honoured ritual of politicians from North Korea to New Hampshire: lots and lots of photocalls.
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His team may have dreamed up the invitation as a way of making him seem more statesmanlike through the gracious extension of an olive branch.
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He's confronting a critical moment -- which would daunt the most experienced, popular and statesmanlike President -- with little to no political juice to achieve his aims.
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What some enshrine as an age of "statesmanlike civility and bipartisan compromise" often involved dark bargains and "dirty hands" collusions, and was not especially democratic.
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For in repeated interviews and on rally stages, Mr Trump has scoffed at those asking him to change, and to become more scripted and statesmanlike.
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Our president, as you know, has ever-changing personas, ranging from statesmanlike Reader-of-Speeches to Nearly Unhinged Trump, a version frequently seen on Twitter.
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For many, Chirac's statesmanlike but jocular air encapsulated both France's rural roots and its central role in diplomatic affairs envisaged by President Charles de Gaulle.
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Blanketed by television networks, it was also a do-over, as Trump cut a somber and statesmanlike figure after a chaotic, acrimonious start to his administration.
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"Trump is clearly trying to reach out and be a little more statesmanlike," said Cruz backer Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.
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The visit was an apparent attempt to portray Trump in a statesmanlike light and to counter Clinton's claims that he is temperamentally unfit to be President.
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But to portray Roe as the statesmanlike "settlement" of a divisive issue, a jurisprudential Peace of Westphalia that is worth preserving, is nothing less than Orwellian.
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"Without mentioning Angela Merkel, and while maintaining very polite, statesmanlike language, he essentially told her, 'This has got to stop,' " Mr. Joffe said in a telephone interview.
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As Republicans see it, Trump's speech from the White House is a statesmanlike effort to meet Democrats halfway in a bid to end the partial government shutdown.
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North Korea's initial response to the cancellation was calm and conciliatory, presumably because Kim wants the summit and because he wishes to appear more statesmanlike than Trump.
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He added: "I hope that he was sort of fronting a little bit to win the election and that he will actually govern in a more statesmanlike manner."
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His hands underline his words, and then always return to their basic position: opposite to one another, the fingertips pressed against each other in an almost statesmanlike fashion.
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At this point the wise and statesmanlike thing is to suggest that there is no need to posit a false choice between identity-based grievances and economic ones.
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But Democrats have made clear they plan to pursue their investigations into the Trump administration and there is little to indicate Trump will adopt a more statesmanlike mien.
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The president remarked last week that Mr. Trump's comments and behavior had been more statesmanlike since the election, saying that he had been "encouraged" by the change in tone.
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Trump put on a statesmanlike display during his victory speech and his first visit to Washington following the election, respectfully interacting with Obama and vowing to bring the country together.
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Despite Biden's name recognition and statesmanlike status, he has yet to prove that he can move a significant portion of even the Democratic Party, not to mention the broader electorate.
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On that occasion, Trump won good reviews for his demeanor and unexpectedly statesmanlike approach, and appeared to cut a more conventionally "presidential" figure than he has at any time since.
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To the dramatic, almost musical intonations of the nation's most famous newscaster, the program depicted Kim as statesmanlike beyond his years, confident and polite, quick to smile and firmly in control.
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According to National Review's Eliana Johnson and Tim Alberta, Cruz later claimed he hoped his convention speech would be interpreted as a defense of conservative principles, albeit delivered with statesmanlike neutrality.
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For a long time in this primary, Democrats seemed to be deciding between the progressive sizzle in Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren, or the statesmanlike security blanket in Mr. Biden.
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Hollande was widely credited with a dignified and statesmanlike response to Islamist militant attacks that killed 17 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015.
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As I wrote way back in 2007, proclaiming a Social Security crisis requiring cuts was seen as a "badge of seriousness," a way of showing how statesmanlike and tough-minded you were.
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To the dramatic, almost song-like intonations of the nation&aposs most famous newscaster, the program depicted Kim as statesmanlike beyond his years, confident and polite, quick to smile and firmly in control.
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I see Biden as the Democratic answer to George H.W. Bush — a statesmanlike presence who could work with the opposition without rancor and leave the office and country better than he found it.
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Trump derails his own gains by interrupting Hillary and making catty comments, and more tellingly, is not able to return to the more sober, statesmanlike demeanor people hope to see from a presidential candidate.
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But Mr. Khan has also won praise for his seemingly coolheaded and statesmanlike behavior during the recent crisis with India, which he helped de-escalate by releasing a captured Indian pilot and emphasizing peace.
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Mr. Gorbachev sounds high-minded and statesmanlike as he discusses the future, asking Mr. Bush to support Mr. Yeltsin and Russia's reforms, and to help the former Soviet republics achieve separation without disintegrating further.
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In the past week, the company has careened through controversies over misinformation, squabbles over election ads, and an oddly statesmanlike speech in DC that sought to put a fresh spin on the Facebook origin story.
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While Zuckerberg has charted a statesmanlike evolution over the years, he and the company he helms too often have a blind spot for the way the world will react to products it unleashes on them.
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Senate leader Emilio Gamboa stressed Peña Nieto's statesmanlike qualities in an interview on Radio Fórmula but he also went to great pains to stress that he was "very surprised" by the news of the meeting.
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The frontrunner in the Democratic primary, former Vice President Joe Biden, by contrast, modeled a statesmanlike approach in remarks on Thursday, when he offered his own plans for addressing the virus and its associated economic perils.
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Clinton, appearing on CNN Tuesday, sought to portray a statesmanlike image, saying that Europe needed to toughen its own anti-terrorism laws and warned that the attacks underscore the need for unflappable leadership in the White House.
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Mr. Trump's remarks offered a vivid illustration of the current state of his campaign: As he edges closer to the nomination, he is under pressure to curb his hard-edged language and exude a more statesmanlike demeanor.
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It will also provide Mr. Xi with the opportunity to profit from Mr. Trump's missteps, to appear statesmanlike when Mr. Trump appears bellicose, to bully Taiwan and to make China's repressive system of government seem more attractive.
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The President who disparaged diplomats, who slashed the State Department budget, who mocked his secretary of state, who threatened nuclear war and repeatedly broke the rules of diplomatic protocol, suddenly seemed to gain something closely resembling statesmanlike confidence.
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Trump briefly sought to strike a statesmanlike tone in his first public remarks after the loss, praising House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi for her hard work and envisioning "a beautiful, bipartisan type of situation" on infrastructure investments and healthcare.
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By turns ridiculing Mr. Gantz and appealing to his statesmanlike instincts, questioning his mental health and badgering him to prove his patriotism, Mr. Netanyahu appeared to have co-opted Mr. Gantz into delivering him a record fourth straight term.
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London (CNN)Donald Trump's two-day royal interregnum is over and the President is lashing out at his political foes as brewing trouble at home begins to erode the statesmanlike demeanor he has adopted on a smooth state visit to Britain.
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Overseas, China wishes to win allies in its war by appearing statesmanlike, an image that would be undermined by shrill rhetoric—or too many reminders, in the shape of "Made in China 2025", that it is bidding to overtake America.
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Instead of making Peña Nieto look statesmanlike, however, last Wednesday's meeting left the president looking servile and politically inept as he allowed Trump to dominate the subsequent press conference and even pat him on the back when it was over.
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His policies failed to make a dent in stubbornly high unemployment, and while his statesmanlike qualities came to the fore after the first of a series of Islamist militant attacks in early 2015, the effect faded fast as more came along.
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The two frontrunners left corn country to conduct a quick, statesmanlike campaign that showed Edwards had strength in the white South but that white Southerners were simply far too small a share of Democratic voters for him to prevail anywhere.
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Mr. Toussaint, who died last year at 77 after performing a concert in Madrid, was a soft-spoken yet statesmanlike eminence of New Orleans music: a pianist, singer-songwriter, producer and arranger whose influence ran deep through soul and rhythm and blues.
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On Monday The Washington Post reported that when Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, and David Perdue, a Georgia Republican, strenuously disputed the initial accounts that Trump said "shithole" in the Oval Office, it was not because his talk was actually statesmanlike.
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Only a couple of weeks ago, some Biden allies were talking quietly about how he could, at least, end his campaign with dignity: Hang on narrowly in South Carolina, hopefully, and bow out, statesmanlike, if Super Tuesday went sideways as many expected.
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During his two impromptu press conferences that day, Trump ignored his press secretary's "one more question" sign and forged ahead to: After spending the past couple days trading threats with North Korea, President Trump changed course Friday and attempted some measured, statesmanlike diplomacy.
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While George W. Bush did issue some statesmanlike words after 9/11 to calm the public and blunt anti-Muslim anger, it's also the case that the Bush administration manipulated the fear of terrorism to consolidate public support for policies like the Iraq war.
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Aiming to appear statesmanlike, he traveled to politically hostile territory to meet with a president who might have surprised him with a rebuke, and he also risked support from some conservatives who do not want him cozying up to Mexico or softening his immigration plans.
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Ultimately, abolition of the monstrosity of abducting and enslaving millions of Africans required something beyond moderation and compromise among slavery's opponents and "statesmanlike" defenders, such as Calhoun, and ambivalent apologists (including even Abraham Lincoln, who long prioritized saving the Union above emancipating the slaves).
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More from National Review: Trump's statesmanlike speech in Riyadh Michael Flynn's decision to plead the Fifth tells us nothing about his guilt The painful story of how U.S. special-operations forces grew up Congratulations, America: You have at last, after all these years, transformed yourself into Brazil.
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"He was particularly calm, and the reason seems clear: He is no longer looking for protest votes, but wants to govern and is reacting accordingly calm and statesmanlike," Peter Filzmaier, a professor of politics at Danube University Krems, told the broadcaster ORF after the debate on Thursday.
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But other than rejecting those polls, and insisting that he would accept the results even if the opposition wins again on Sunday, Mr. Erdogan seemed more interested in talking about foreign policy, and showing a statesmanlike manner before the G-20 meeting, than in discussing the election.
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It is just the sort of fight Mr. Biden has been spoiling for: a head-to-head contest with the incumbent on an issue that elevates Mr. Biden into a statesmanlike role, well above the Democratic primary fray and all the sniping candidates and liberal litmus tests therein.
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By then George Bush would be back in Texas, a one-term president done in by the right wing of his own party — a conservative cabal that rebelled against Mr. Bush's statesmanlike deal with Democrats to raise some taxes in exchange for spending controls to rein in the deficit.
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Just consider the plaudits that Mr Trump earned for turning up in Mexico City in late August and reading a prepared statement next to the Mexican president without making any cracks about rapists or actually inciting violence: a low-bar performance that had Republicans rushing on to the airwaves to call him "statesmanlike".
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"In recent weeks AMLO has moderated his public stance, reached out to local business leaders and acted in a statesmanlike manner while appearing presidential by openly supporting the Pena Nieto administration in its recent dealings with the Trump administration," Goldman Sachs said in a note this month after a recent visit by analysts to Mexico.
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The remarks on Thursday were not the first time Mr. Biden has sought to assume the mantle of a sober, statesmanlike leader through a highly produced speech: In January, he delivered a sharp rebuke of Mr. Trump's stewardship of tensions with Iran against a backdrop that appeared reminiscent of the White House briefing room.
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But the EU needs to change even more: it is easy to forget, given the passions that have been revealed by Brexit and the ministerial incompetence that has been revealed, that Brexit might never have happened (just as the recent Italian debacle need never have happened) if the European Union had taken a more statesmanlike approach to its business.
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The first European politician President-elect Trump met was Nigel Farage, interim leader of the U.K. Independence Party, the driving force behind the British departure from the EU. "If Trump now wanted to look statesmanlike to Europe, receiving Farage was probably the worst thing he could to," Carl Bildt, the former Swedish Prime Minister said on Twitter.
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It was the latest shift in what has become a nearly daily change of roles for this president: from the statesmanlike commander in chief who sought harmony on Monday evening by citing the example of America's soldiers to the political warrior who, just a day later, preached unapologetic division to his supporters here, eliciting louder cheers with every epithet.
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Of the two acts of indulgence — strolling statesmanlike with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Beijing's red carpet and watching fanlike a live performance of the rhythmic-and-bluesy hit single "Bad Boy" by Red Velvet (and meeting the singers afterward) — the latter will prove far more transformative in casting Kim Jong Un as a regular, well-intentioned guy finally coming out of his angry isolation and as a responsible steward of his nukes and gulags.
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