demeanour

• “She may sound highly strung, but her demeanour is admirably grounded.”

  The Guardian: Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'

• “From my observations, their natural demeanour is only to react to anything that polls badly or is in their own interests, so they must be sh! tting themselves.”

  Think Progress » Thursday 9PM: Another Photo-Op For Bush

• “Your demeanour is written down as is whom you are hanging around with.”

  The Para-Dice Riders Charter Case Against Police Roadblocks

• “LADY DAINAGON is very small and refined, white, beautiful, and round, though in demeanour very lofty.”

  Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

• “Akai Ringo is a short high school freshman girl with seemingly cute, angelic looks but a dark demeanour (her name is a Japanese wordplay on "apple" and "Red Riding Hood").”

  Anime Nano!

• “The clear advantage of Ming’s serious and sober demeanour is that, when he does do angry, you sure as hell know he means it.”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “Their snake-like necks, sloping backs and legs like sculpted bar stools give the animal an alien-like demeanour, which is enhanced by the pair of funny stumps between its ears.”

  Burkina Faso: Meningitis, Mask Dances and a Special Horse Festival

• “But the proximate cause of my jaundiced demeanour, which is now bubbling over into anger, was an interview on the programme with the vacuous Shane Richmond.”

  Death is a commodity

• “He has a dignity of demeanour, which is also very self-conscious.”

  The Happiness of Others

• “In the foregoing narrative, the mildest view has been adopted of his remorseless cruelty: of his gross and revolting indulgences, of his daily demeanour, which is said to have outraged everything that is seemly, everything that is holy, in private life, little has been written.”

  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.

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