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  • His demeanor shows that he's clearly the man in charge.†   (source)
  • Thomas sat quietly in anticipation as Minho struggled to stand up, wincing with every move, his whole demeanor just screaming exhaustion.†   (source)
  • He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease.†   (source)
  • Her geeky demeanor and hyperkinetic speech pattern reminded me of Jordan, my favorite character in Real Genius.†   (source)
  • Silas sensed an uneasiness in Sister Sandrine's demeanor as she led him into the sanctuary.†   (source)
  • Ashley Brouillette's quiet, refined demeanor sets her apart immediately as a lady.†   (source)
  • The cheerful bounce of Darnell's hair contrasted with his worried demeanor.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Us magazine ("The Scandal That Shook Savannah") described Williams as having a "von Billow-like demeanor."†   (source)
  • But his whole demeanor said those days were gone now, nothing.†   (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)
  • Even now, her demeanor is unflinching.†   (source)
  • Grim would be, I suppose, a sobriquet for your grandfather, based on his demeanor.†   (source)
  • When we enter the woods again, Cal's demeanor changes, hardening to something serious.†   (source)
  • They noticed, they said later, an immediate and friendly change in his demeanor.†   (source)
  • He notices the change in my demeanor and stops.†   (source)
  • Cinder's heart stirred, watching as his royal demeanor slid off him.†   (source)
  • And his demeanor didn't hurt.†   (source)
  • Here he goes again, inducing me into submission by a simple switch in 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)
  • Noah balled up his napkin in his hand, his playful demeanor gone.†   (source)
  • Chastised, Eragon adopted a staid demeanor, but inside he still bubbled with energy.†   (source)
  • Early in the scrimmage he had a bull-like demeanor, but he hadn't done anything out of anger.†   (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)
  • When Holmes left them, they appeared crestfallen, their demeanor suddenly brittle and snappish.†   (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)
  • His demeanor, his accent, his facial structure—I have met him before, just not in modern times.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I found that spending time with Jamie sapped me of the energy to feel hurt by his demeanor.†   (source)
  • While Mack stood there, angry and ready to explode, the woman remained calm and unchanging in her demeanor.†   (source)
  • He struggled for a moment to recapture his calm demeanor.†   (source)
  • ELLEN: So, Lance Nicholas Dunne—can you describe his demeanor for us, Shawna?†   (source)
  • Instantly, Colton's demeanor changed.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sherman, a tall, distinguished-looking man with a gruff but affable demeanor, confirmed that the fetus was dead.†   (source)
  • He was listening, Nels knew; his tired demeanor shielded an active mind from view.†   (source)
  • The pastor's demeanor had turned solemn, almost icy.†   (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)
  • Meredith Vieira stared gravely into the camera, having perfected the demeanor for a national tragedy.†   (source)
  • His demeanor was threatening enough to make me obey.†   (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)
  • But Bree found his bedroom eyes'glacier blue'and brooding demeanor quite the turn on.†   (source)
  • Alyah was a beautiful child with long, thin fingers, perfectly formed little lips, and for an infant, an improbably serene demeanor.†   (source)
  • What had it cost her, Norah wondered, what did it cost her now, to maintain her appearance, her cheerful demeanor?†   (source)
  • His demeanor had a kind of melancholy which was perplexing.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He has the demeanor of a psychoanalyst, watchful and impassive, and his ability to transform his face so easily and quickly was astonishing.†   (source)
  • Despite his demeanor, he actually does care too much for Carlisle to stand with the Volturi.†   (source)
  • The whole watch went about its work alertly but with the relaxed demeanor that came with years of training and experience.†   (source)
  • July soon returned to work, but his demeanor had not greatly improved.†   (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)
  • She bats her lashes and adopts a sweet, shy demeanor.†   (source)
  • Randy looked away and his confident demeanor faded.†   (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)
  • But if his plan was having any effect, he noted no change in the demeanor of his guards.†   (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)
  • She's got her put-on, no-nonsense demeanor in full swing.†   (source)
  • Despite his positive demeanor, after an hour with the Geographica even Charles had to admit he was at a loggerheads with it.†   (source)
  • The second was her bright, confident demeanor.†   (source)
  • He had a very agreeable face, despite his severe, somber demeanor and his frequently sour expression.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Finally she disappeared into a nearby classroom, and Henry shut his locker, his shoulders sagging, his jovial demeanor subdued.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And, she thought, with Hetta's quiet, old-fashioned, grandmotherly demeanor, the woman would probably get off.†   (source)
  • "I believe seven are already on the payroll, sir," answered the deputy director, his demeanor serious, in contrast to his arched eyebrows.†   (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)
  • The thought of her on Pilgrim, whose calmer demeanor he didn't quite trust, was downright scary.†   (source)
  • But because of her demeanor on the video, the police suspect drugs.†   (source)
  • He was thin with a short haircut and a bookish demeanor.†   (source)
  • His demeanor was still casual, but there was a flicker of tension under it, like a cat readying itself to pounce.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Despite their different races and nationalities, they all shared a common calm 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)
  • 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)
  • "Their demeanor and condition are extraordinary after such a battle," Alessandro said.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I say, my respectful and dignified demeanor threatening to crumble, "just a few necessities."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Something about his demeanor was vaguely familiar.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He assumed, then, the demeanor of one who knows that he is doomed alone to unwritten responsibilities.   (source)
  • Even in her agitation, Phoebe could not help remarking the calmness of Holgrave's demeanor.   (source)
  • Her calm demeanor belies the inner turmoil.
  • 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 expect all of us to maintain our professional demeanor and remember our purpose.†   (source)
  • The brawny one, the one with the self-satisfied, scornful demeanor, was the leader.†   (source)
  • He appeared to be still a teenager but carried an old soul and a frighteningly serious demeanor.†   (source)
  • "Because," he answered, his whole demeanor urgent, "you are denying me your love.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Collins's demeanor changed from friendly Labrador to pure business.†   (source)
  • His placid demeanor usually soothes me, but today it's nothing but frustrating.†   (source)
  • It was that his whole demeanor was a tad abashed, even sub missive.†   (source)
  • There's an edge in his normally relaxed demeanor.†   (source)
  • His back was straight, his demeanor formal.†   (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)
  • I can feel him nodding and I can sense his whole demeanor coming to a quiet calm.†   (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)
  • As she talked, Dan noticed that her entire demeanor changed.†   (source)
  • An official of the building found his demeanor troubling and told him he could not enter.†   (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)
  • Where Dreiser saw an enticing woman of mystery, Maxwell saw a schoolmarm of drab demeanor.†   (source)
  • I ventured awkward sympathy that failed to ease or soften his demeanor.†   (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)
  • His demeanor actually threw me for a second.†   (source)
  • Instead, the butcher's demeanor became cold and flinty.†   (source)
  • "By all means," said Prusias, resuming his pleasant 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)
  • "I'm spending the weekend with Johnny Depp," I say, attempting to appear oblivious to her demeanor.†   (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)
  • Daldoum continued to work, but his demeanor offered little solace to his children.†   (source)
  • He was beginning to exhibit sudden changes of demeanor once more.†   (source)
  • He was a few years older than the others, more deliberative in movement, calmer in demeanor.†   (source)
  • If her mother's demeanor this morning was any indication, she was obviously displeased by that.†   (source)
  • Even Elessari let outrage burst through her pleasant demeanor.†   (source)
  • Oromis drew a finger across his upper lip, his demeanor contemplative.†   (source)
  • MUCH HAD BEEN SAID of Washington's cheerful demeanor.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Mina, but the girl had resumed her quiet, unassuming demeanor.†   (source)
  • His manner was efficient; his demeanor pontifical.†   (source)
  • She could certainly put on that demeanor for her daughter, too.†   (source)
  • No discrepancy existed between their demeanors as they stood bathed in dawn's first rays.†   (source)
  • His entire demeanor seemed to say: Who are you?†   (source)
  • The Fugees' demeanor reflected the unpleasant reality of where their season had gone.†   (source)
  • His tense demeanor made it clear that this was no cover-your-backside statement.†   (source)
  • Glancing at the waterlogged pen, Max saw that the sheep and goats had resumed their placid demeanor.†   (source)
  • His demeanor toward me softened immediately, and he now turned his wrath upon his sister.†   (source)
  • Surely he could see how furious I still was, but in the seconds that had passed, his demeanor had shifted completely.†   (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)
  • He first met Fischer and Hall on the slopes of K2 in 1992, where his competence and easygoing demeanor left a favorable impression on both men.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • My father was a volatile, extremely complicated person, possessed of a brash demeanor that masked deep insecurities.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But while Sofia shared Nina's clarity of perception and confidence of opinion, she was entirely different in demeanor.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The impenetrable face of a hopeful girl, dressed in the unrevealing uniform of the time; her demeanor was sturdily virtuous.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The following areas of concern were considered in reaching this decision: The demeanor of the witness; the opportunity of the witness to have knowledge of the facts which he testified to at trial; the rationale, as stated by the witness for his testimony at the first trial; the rationale, as stated by the defendant, for his recantation; the evidence of external pressures brought to bear on the witness prior to and after both trial and recantation; the actions of the witness that lend…†   (source)
  • Driving up to see Susan Marie Heine, Art muddled out his words in silence, revising as he went and planning his demeanor, which ought, he decided, to have a vaguely military architecture with certain nautical decorative touches—to report a man's death at sea to his widow was a task done gravely but with tragic stoicism for centuries on end, he figured.†   (source)
  • I could, of course, read by his demeanor that he was displeased, but how this displeasure would incubate I could not and did not know.†   (source)
  • On one side of that divide was a girl of five or ten or twenty with a quiet demeanor and a whimsical imagination who relied upon him for companionship and counsel; while on the other side was a young woman of discernment and grace who need rely on no one but herself.†   (source)
  • In the months after the 1923 congress, her beauty became so indisputable, her heart so tender, her demeanor so kind, that Mishka had no choice but to barricade himself behind a stack of books at the old Imperial Library in St. Petersburg.†   (source)
  • She bottle-fed Caroline and I'm sure she bottle-fed us, in spite of the fact that farmwives never willingly take on extra work, and her demeanor during the feedings was rather impersonal as I later recalled it.†   (source)
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