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  • Gail's life is the American Dream personified: a beautiful house, three great kids, a happy marriage, and a saintly demeanor.†   (source)
  • His demeanor shows that he's clearly the man in charge.†   (source)
  • He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease.†   (source)
  • The gray clothes, the plain hairstyle, and the unassuming demeanor of my faction are supposed to make it easier for me to forget myself, and easier for everyone else to forget me too.†   (source)
  • The cheerful bounce of Darnell's hair contrasted with his worried demeanor.†   (source)
  • Even Syed, who wore the grimly cheerful demeanor of someone who had shoehorned the most unlikely candidates into a job, was starting to sound a little weary.†   (source)
  • Silas sensed an uneasiness in Sister Sandrine's demeanor as she led him into the sanctuary.†   (source)
  • Thomas sat quietly in anticipation as Minho struggled to stand up, wincing with every move, his whole demeanor just screaming exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Us magazine ("The Scandal That Shook Savannah") described Williams as having a "von Billow-like demeanor."†   (source)
  • Ashley Brouillette's quiet, refined demeanor sets her apart immediately as a lady.†   (source)
  • He was listening, Nels knew; his tired demeanor shielded an active mind from view.†   (source)
  • And with that, he ceded the stage to Gus, who had the odd combination of preternaturally good looks and a timid, mouselike demeanor.†   (source)
  • Grim would be, I suppose, a sobriquet for your grandfather, based on his demeanor.†   (source)
  • The impenetrable face of a hopeful girl, dressed in the unrevealing uniform of the time; her demeanor was sturdily virtuous.†   (source)
  • Meredith Vieira stared gravely into the camera, having perfected the demeanor for a national tragedy.†   (source)
  • It wasn't that he was ugly—in fact, his tanned face was rather pleasant, but there was something nasty about his demeanor, about his obsidian eyes as they shifted and met her own.†   (source)
  • Here he goes again, inducing me into submission by a simple switch in demeanor.†   (source)
  • When we enter the woods again, Cal's demeanor changes, hardening to something serious.†   (source)
  • I found that spending time with Jamie sapped me of the energy to feel hurt by his demeanor.†   (source)
  • Even now, her demeanor is unflinching.†   (source)
  • They noticed, they said later, an immediate and friendly change in his demeanor.†   (source)
  • Cinder's heart stirred, watching as his royal demeanor slid off him.†   (source)
  • Estha watched as they walked along the railing, pushing through the crowds that moved aside, intimidated by Chacko's suit and sideways tie and his generally bursty demeanor.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he followed me into the kitchen, with an oddly supplicant demeanor.†   (source)
  • Yet when she is asked about migrants, she stops knitting a blue shawl and stiffens; her demeanor turns cold.†   (source)
  • ELLEN: So, Lance Nicholas Dunne—can you describe his demeanor for us, Shawna?†   (source)
  • Chastised, Eragon adopted a staid demeanor, but inside he still bubbled with energy.†   (source)
  • I recall my father with his wavy hair and clean-shaven face, his correct, upright and stubborn demeanor, in contrast to my mother who was heavy-set with Native features and thick straight hair, often laughing heartily, her eyes narrowed to slits, and sometimes crying from a deep tomb-like place with a sound like swallowing mud.†   (source)
  • While Mack stood there, angry and ready to explode, the woman remained calm and unchanging in her demeanor.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sherman, a tall, distinguished-looking man with a gruff but affable demeanor, confirmed that the fetus was dead.†   (source)
  • He struggled for a moment to recapture his calm demeanor.†   (source)
  • Instantly, Colton's demeanor changed.†   (source)
  • I was used to not seeing data from Lieutenant Skaaiat, but this disjunction between her demeanor and the seriousness of the situation—Lieutenant Awn's still-extreme distress, and, to be honest, my own discomfort at events—made her seem oddly flat and unreal to me.†   (source)
  • When Holmes left them, they appeared crestfallen, their demeanor suddenly brittle and snappish.†   (source)
  • And his demeanor didn't hurt.†   (source)
  • Early in the scrimmage he had a bull-like demeanor, but he hadn't done anything out of anger.†   (source)
  • The whole watch went about its work alertly but with the relaxed demeanor that came with years of training and experience.†   (source)
  • That the only time I saw the small simmering of temper behind his cool demeanor was when someone was late or not where they said they'd be.†   (source)
  • "AS your demeanor has been nonaggressive and you carry no visible weapons, we are not authorized to employ heroic measures to ensure your cooperation," the first MetaCop says.†   (source)
  • Despite his demeanor, he actually does care too much for Carlisle to stand with the Volturi.†   (source)
  • He had a very agreeable face, despite his severe, somber demeanor and his frequently sour expression.†   (source)
  • Alyah was a beautiful child with long, thin fingers, perfectly formed little lips, and for an infant, an improbably serene demeanor.†   (source)
  • His demeanor, his accent, his facial structure—I have met him before, just not in modern times.†   (source)
  • He has the demeanor of a psychoanalyst, watchful and impassive, and his ability to transform his face so easily and quickly was astonishing.†   (source)
  • The pastor's demeanor had turned solemn, almost icy.†   (source)
  • What had it cost her, Norah wondered, what did it cost her now, to maintain her appearance, her cheerful demeanor?†   (source)
  • The thought of her on Pilgrim, whose calmer demeanor he didn't quite trust, was downright scary.†   (source)
  • But Bree found his bedroom eyes'glacier blue'and brooding demeanor quite the turn on.†   (source)
  • These records documented Chief Harley's assessment that Adam's goofy, sometimes clumsy, laid-back demeanor belied his outstanding professional performance as a SEAL.†   (source)
  • His associates had learned not to read too much into Stone's demeanor, which a stranger might think was surly when in fact he was painfully shy.†   (source)
  • Although the eyes of the nation were not upon them, the demeanor of the event's main participants, from the court recorder to the judge himself, was markedly self-aware on the morning of the court's first convening.†   (source)
  • If at any time during the next twelve months you do not perform as called for, or if Mr. Hamilton does not approve of your attitude and demeanor, he will simply stop the process and cut you off from my ultimate gift to you.†   (source)
  • He is now a popular member of Ballou's mainstream, sporting his tough guy/clown demeanor and a new nickname he recently came up with, "Blunt," slang for a marijuana cigar.†   (source)
  • They listened with great attention as John Grady answered their questions and they nodded solemnly and they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.†   (source)
  • July soon returned to work, but his demeanor had not greatly improved.†   (source)
  • He notices the change in my demeanor and stops.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I say, my respectful and dignified demeanor threatening to crumble, "just a few necessities."†   (source)
  • You wouldn't notice him necessarily, he's not the sort of man one notices; everything about his clothes and his demeanor ask not to be picked out from a crowd.†   (source)
  • His demeanor was threatening enough to make me obey.†   (source)
  • She bats her lashes and adopts a sweet, shy demeanor.†   (source)
  • "By all means," said Prusias, resuming his pleasant demeanor.†   (source)
  • She looked more or less the same, perhaps due to her old chicken bone charms: long reddish curly hair, a faraway but quizzical expression, and a witchy, mystical demeanor.†   (source)
  • The second was her bright, confident demeanor.†   (source)
  • I knew, even then, that there was an inner hardness, often volatile anger beneath the outwardly amiable, thoughtful, carefully controlled demeanor of John Kennedy.†   (source)
  • The first John Adams, remembered as Deacon John, was a farmer and shoemaker, a man of "sturdy, unostentatious demeanor," who, like his father, "played the part of a solid citizen," as tithing man, constable, lieutenant in the militia, selectman, and ultimately church deacon, taking his place on the deacon's bench before the pulpit.†   (source)
  • His demeanor had a kind of melancholy which was perplexing.†   (source)
  • Despite his positive demeanor, after an hour with the Geographica even Charles had to admit he was at a loggerheads with it.†   (source)
  • And, she thought, with Hetta's quiet, old-fashioned, grandmotherly demeanor, the woman would probably get off.†   (source)
  • Finally she disappeared into a nearby classroom, and Henry shut his locker, his shoulders sagging, his jovial demeanor subdued.†   (source)
  • Noah balled up his napkin in his hand, his playful demeanor gone.†   (source)
  • But if his plan was having any effect, he noted no change in the demeanor of his guards.†   (source)
  • A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demeanor, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience and all that gives him sustenance and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows that he can never become white.†   (source)
  • The moment she was out the door her husband turned to the shopowner, his demeanor entirely different.†   (source)
  • With his gentle demeanor, Gandhi seemed the very personification of nonviolence, and he insisted that the campaign be run along identical lines to that of his father's in India.†   (source)
  • His demeanor suggested anything but cordiality.†   (source)
  • A perfect fit for her mother maybe, with his compelling, confident demeanor, but that didn't make him God's gift to all women.†   (source)
  • But in time, something in Seabiscuit's demeanor—perhaps a conspicuous lack of sweating in the workouts, perhaps a gleam in the horse's eye that hinted at devious intelligence—made Fitzsimmons question his assumptions.†   (source)
  • The Batutsi were destined to rule; their mere demeanor lends them considerable prestige over the inferior races that surround them...There is nothing surprising about the fact that the less shrewd, simpler, more spontaneous, and more confiding Bahutu braves let themselves be enslaved.†   (source)
  • He was thin with a short haircut and a bookish demeanor.†   (source)
  • "Their demeanor and condition are extraordinary after such a battle," Alessandro said.†   (source)
  • Assuming that Snow Flower was using this honorific to soften Madame Wang's stern demeanor, and once again emboldened by my laotong's daring, I joined in.†   (source)
  • Kemp looked the part of rugged frontiersman: not too tall but barrel-chested, with gnarled and knotted arms, and a stern demeanor that frightened friend and foe alike.†   (source)
  • But because of her demeanor on the video, the police suspect drugs.†   (source)
  • There was nothing overtly hostile in his demeanor, and yet everything about him implied a clear threat.†   (source)
  • She's got her put-on, no-nonsense demeanor in full swing.†   (source)
  • Randy looked away and his confident demeanor faded.†   (source)
  • I should mention now that I am not a physician of any kind, and that I only ran a medical and surgical supply store in town, though for many patrons it came to be regarded as an informal drop-in clinic, the kind of place where people could freely ask questions of someone who was experienced and knowledgeable as well as open and friendly, a demeanor that quite a few doctors, unfortunately, no longer feature these days.†   (source)
  • I could almost see the wheels in his head turning, and every bit of his demeanor showed how conflicted he was about what he wanted to do.†   (source)
  • When Kyle picked me up for our afternoon at Amie's Arcade, he looked different from before—he wasn't dancing and singing or anything, but I thought I noticed some change in his demeanor, like letting go of his secret had lightened him up a hit.†   (source)
  • He watched over Natalie as a parent watches over an ailing child, looking for signs of distress, changes in mood and demeanor.†   (source)
  • On this overcast late afternoon, her face, in the green, leaf-filtered gauze of light, was both classic and frozen in its demeanor andrepose.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, he never lost sight of Albert — and when he had drifted to within fifty feet of the sleeping wolf his demeanor changed dramatically.†   (source)
  • His demeanor is unsympathetic as he escorts ha from the courtroom.†   (source)
  • Yet his demeanor was the same as in all the others; there was nothing in his attitude to suggest that he remembered the incident.†   (source)
  • Her calm demeanor belies the inner turmoil.
  • Even in her agitation, Phoebe could not help remarking the calmness of Holgrave's demeanor.   (source)
  • He assumed, then, the demeanor of one who knows that he is doomed alone to unwritten responsibilities.   (source)
  • I open my eyes, shocked at how quickly his demeanor changed.†   (source)
  • His hands loosen around me and I can feel his whole demeanor shift.†   (source)
  • His eyes dart back to the floor and the guilt in his demeanor is like a punch straight to my gut.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Collins's demeanor changed from friendly Labrador to pure business.†   (source)
  • His demeanor actually threw me for a second.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, his demeanor remained steady.†   (source)
  • They marveled at her easy, sociable demeanor.†   (source)
  • Except: He did not have the quiet demeanor of someone who grew up in Abnegation.†   (source)
  • "I'm spending the weekend with Johnny Depp," I say, attempting to appear oblivious to her demeanor.†   (source)
  • The brawny one, the one with the self-satisfied, scornful demeanor, was the leader.†   (source)
  • I expect all of us to maintain our professional demeanor and remember our purpose.†   (source)
  • "Because," he answered, his whole demeanor urgent, "you are denying me your love.†   (source)
  • He appeared to be still a teenager but carried an old soul and a frighteningly serious demeanor.†   (source)
  • His placid demeanor usually soothes me, but today it's nothing but frustrating.†   (source)
  • Daldoum continued to work, but his demeanor offered little solace to his children.†   (source)
  • His back was straight, his demeanor formal.†   (source)
  • It was that his whole demeanor was a tad abashed, even sub missive.†   (source)
  • Everything about his tone and demeanor was different.†   (source)
  • Sobriquet means 'nickname,' and demeanor means 'expression.'†   (source)
  • It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.†   (source)
  • Even Elessari let outrage burst through her pleasant demeanor.†   (source)
  • An official of the building found his demeanor troubling and told him he could not enter.†   (source)
  • As if his rank didn't threaten me enough, his demeanor did.†   (source)
  • She held her head high, with a queen's demeanor.†   (source)
  • She could certainly put on that demeanor for her daughter, too.†   (source)
  • In fact, there was a brightness in his whole demeanor.†   (source)
  • No discrepancy existed between their demeanors as they stood bathed in dawn's first rays.†   (source)
  • It was only a second before Maxon regained his cool demeanor.†   (source)
  • I try to capture the calm demeanor my mother assumes when handling particularly bad cases.†   (source)
  • The Fugees' demeanor reflected the unpleasant reality of where their season had gone.†   (source)
  • I ventured awkward sympathy that failed to ease or soften his demeanor.†   (source)
  • Where Dreiser saw an enticing woman of mystery, Maxwell saw a schoolmarm of drab demeanor.†   (source)
  • But his whole demeanor said those days were gone now, nothing.†   (source)
  • I can feel him nodding and I can sense his whole demeanor coming to a quiet calm.†   (source)
  • Instead, the butcher's demeanor became cold and flinty.†   (source)
  • Despite their different races and nationalities, they all shared a common calm demeanor.†   (source)
  • As I start toward them, he sees me, and his demeanor shifts from complacency to sheer panic.†   (source)
  • Like 'hick's, his voice was almost always soft, his demeanor calm.†   (source)
  • Something about Yousef's blasé demeanor rubbed off on Alan, and he stopped worrying.†   (source)
  • The cap, which she always believed looked goofy on grown men, somehow suited his carefree demeanor.†   (source)
  • His demeanor was friendly, almost jocular, as he approached.†   (source)
  • Nor was his demeanor when he'd checked in that of someone who'd come here to relax.†   (source)
  • The passive demeanor has me totally creeped out, but I am not fooled by it.†   (source)
  • His experience and calm demeanor under fire were second to none.†   (source)
  • His entire demeanor seemed to say: Who are you?†   (source)
  • There's an edge in his normally relaxed demeanor.†   (source)
  • He was a few years older than the others, more deliberative in movement, calmer in demeanor.†   (source)
  • Oromis drew a finger across his upper lip, his demeanor contemplative.†   (source)
  • If her mother's demeanor this morning was any indication, she was obviously displeased by that.†   (source)
  • MUCH HAD BEEN SAID of Washington's cheerful demeanor.†   (source)
  • Glancing at the waterlogged pen, Max saw that the sheep and goats had resumed their placid demeanor.†   (source)
  • As she talked, Dan noticed that her entire demeanor changed.†   (source)
  • He was beginning to exhibit sudden changes of demeanor once more.†   (source)
  • Something about his demeanor was vaguely familiar.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Mina, but the girl had resumed her quiet, unassuming demeanor.†   (source)
  • His demeanor toward me softened immediately, and he now turned his wrath upon his sister.†   (source)
  • His tense demeanor made it clear that this was no cover-your-backside statement.†   (source)
  • His manner was efficient; his demeanor pontifical.†   (source)
  • Her demeanor was tragically different from that of the energetic young woman who had visited him and Saphira in the dragonhold before the battle.†   (source)
  • Although she eventually came to respect his potent intellect, his icy demeanor always seemed inhuman, the exact antithesis of her father's warmth.†   (source)
  • One customer, a Southern belle in her sixties, had called Zeitoun Painting and had been happy to talk with Kathy, with her chatty demeanor and familiar accent.†   (source)
  • Surely he could see how furious I still was, but in the seconds that had passed, his demeanor had shifted completely.†   (source)
  • Ron responded by maintaining an unnaturally somber demeanor in her presence as an outward sign of continuing remorse.†   (source)
  • Teabing's demeanor turned frosty.†   (source)
  • She sat beside her sister, as unlike her in looks, with her dark hair and heavily lidded eyes, as she was in bearing and demeanor; where Narcissa sat rigid and impassive, Bellatrix leaned toward Voldemort, for mere words could not demonstrate her longing for closeness.†   (source)
  • Tori's demeanor changes.†   (source)
  • Aziza had turned into a calm, pensive little girl, with a demeanor that to Laila seemed beyond her six years.†   (source)
  • He was quiet, with a slightly nervous demeanor; when Kathy met him she'd thought he was a fragile sort of man.†   (source)
  • A pale-faced white man with a very high forehead-cum-bald Spot JUmpS out of the chopper, looking a lot more athletic than his face and general demeanor would lead you to expect, and jogs across the Parking lot directly toward Hiro.†   (source)
  • With time, the village's kids grew tired of tormenting him and left him alone, though Shuja's demeanor was still cautious, suspicious, as if he'd not forgotten their past unkindness toward him.†   (source)
  • He is clean-shaven, with closely set eyes and thick, prominent eyebrows, and although he is of medium build, he seems much larger: there is something stubborn and substantial in his demeanor.†   (source)
  • Narmonov's hands flew up in the air, his hopeful demeanor gone in an instant, replaced with palpable wrath.†   (source)
  • But her icy demeanor stops me.†   (source)
  • His build was pudgy, his suit blandly corporate and married-with-kids-looking; and his sad-sack demeanor gave me the creeps.†   (source)
  • The shift in his demeanor and the way my entire first name is flowing from his mouth is causing the oxygen to deplete from the room.†   (source)
  • My father was a volatile, extremely complicated person, possessed of a brash demeanor that masked deep insecurities.†   (source)
  • Valeska was a white man in his forties whose fit, medium frame suggested someone who stayed active; the glasses he wore added to his serious demeanor.†   (source)
  • Though the Count had never seen her before, it was clear from her demeanor that she had been waiting to speak with him alone.†   (source)
  • Though he was tight and elegant in his speech and gestures, and his suit was modishly cut for a man his age, his demeanor made me think of a puffer fish—or, alternately, a cartoon strongman or Mountie blown up by a bicycle pump: cleft chin, doughball nose, tense slit of a mouth, all bunched tight in the center of a face which glowed a plump, inflamed, blood-pressure pink.†   (source)
  • But by the time the Berlin Wall comes down, so have the walls in her academic life, and she has slowly won over most of her colleagues with her sensible demeanor and disarming sociability.†   (source)
  • She persisted in the pretense that her shy demeanor in the presence of boys prevented her from dating them.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure if it was because of Mom's heavy demeanor or her love for Lucy, but either way I was glad.†   (source)
  • Giri was her grandmother's word for it—it could not be precisely translated into English—and it meant doing what one had to do quietly and with an entirely stoic demeanor.†   (source)
  • Saphira pranced backward and settled on her haunches, though nothing in her demeanor expressed contrition.†   (source)
  • Since the trial of this matter was conducted before the Honorable R. E. L. Key, Circuit Judge, Retired, this court did not have the opportunity to compare the demeanor of the witness during trial testimony and his recantation testimony.†   (source)
  • Tall and thin, with a narrow head and superior demeanor, he looked rather like a bishop that had been plucked from a chessboard.†   (source)
  • DETECTIVE FRANK GEYER WAS A big man with a pleasant, earnest face, a large walrus mustache, and a new gravity in his gaze and demeanor.†   (source)
  • At 1:30, in the manager's office of the Metropol Hotel, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov took the chair across the desk from the man with the narrow head and superior demeanor.†   (source)
  • I'd met prosecutors who dressed and presented like they would rather be out hunting ducks than running a law office, but Chapman was professional and courteous and approached me with a pleasant demeanor.†   (source)
  • He was a hanker, tall, straight-backed, conservative in demeanor and dress, but he rose suddenly and walked to a window, trembling with emotion.†   (source)
  • Caroline shook hands with Jess in her brisk, lawyer's way that Rose always called her "take-me-seriously-or-I'll-sue-you" demeanor.†   (source)
  • As always their demeanor was formally respectful; they took the law seriously and felt its majesty emanating toward them from the bench where Lew Fielding sat with his eyes half-shut, inscrutable and meditative, and from the way in which the jurors sat ruminating in rows on their elevated podium.†   (source)
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