How To Use Demeanour In A Sentence
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But her unassuming demeanour masked a sharp intellect and powers of observation essential for the task of a secret agent.
Times, Sunday Times
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They'll both end up with peerages for distinguished service to British football/fashion and people will laugh at their youthful misdemeanours.
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Incredibly, this shocking misdemeanour endeared him to thousands of hormonally charged schoolgirls, and made him a pin-up in offices around the country.
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If his nervous demeanour - fiddling with his cigarette box, avoiding eye contact - rather belies his confidence with a camera, his work fortunately speaks for itself.
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He said his demeanour and attitude during questioning was not that of a man who had something to hide.
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Our social groups effectively socialize us to see particular dress and hair styles, modes of demeanour and address, accents and vocabularies as being more attractive than others.
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Leaving school at 13 he did the round of reform schools after a spell of teenage misdemeanours.
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Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
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If he was living the high life, his appearance and demeanour gave no hint of it.
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I like Rooney, I like his no no-nonsense approach to the game and his quiet demeanour off the pitch.
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Then when Jed were penalised for a stamping offence, Stenhouse punished the misdemeanour with well-struck kick to put the Greens eight points ahead.
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Lara, thanks to her confident demeanour was one of the easy favourites throughout the evening.
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My previously sunny and happy demeanour changed to one of abject horror.
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For one thing, his staid demeanour and the conservatism of his dress and habits might have led one to suppose that he was a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways and hostile to change.
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High crimes and misdemeanours indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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His self-deprecating, nice-guy demeanour is comforting, but he's rarely funnier than your funniest friend on an off night.
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Sure enough, the first dog pinned us into a corner with the sheer ferocity of its demeanour.
THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
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Exxon subsequently withdrew guilty pleas to four misdemeanour charges relating to the spill, thereby formally dissolving the out of court settlement.
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The smile is warm and her demeanour friendly and winning.
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My cherubic demeanour lasted about 45 minutes.
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I could only assume that it was predating some ovine parasites and it made me wonder whether this complimentary veterinarian service had ever been entered in the farmer's logbook of magpie crimes and misdemeanours.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Hardly the demeanour of an unmasked spy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Crimes and misdemeanours are indictable offences…
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One reason is that permissive societies that realized that crime does pay did not boycott people who lived a life of misdemeanour and wrongdoing.
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The portents are not good for one of his fractious demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is greater public interest in protecting private life -- and that interest must tolerate the occasional missed misdemeanour," said Whittle, a former BBC controller of editorial policy.
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More importantly, this imagery affects the demeanour of these macho men when dealing with the public.
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The reinvention extends to her general demeanour, too.
The Sun
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The solutions to online crimes and misdemeanours will not be devised by my generation.
Times, Sunday Times
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His reputation, already tarnished from past misdemeanours, was shredded beyond repair.
The Sun
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He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour.
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He had heard it said that her innocent demeanour combined with her intelligent mind made her a refreshing change from mindlessly demure damsels.
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A misdemeanour has been committed but the offender has not been caught.
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An honest plaine meaning man, (simply and conscionably) reprehended the malignity, hypocrisie, and misdemeanour of many
The Decameron
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Ross has the demeanour of a superstar but the wee game of shinty cannot give him the context he truly deserves.
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They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all creation, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he met a cad with a pipe.
Finnegans Wake
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He is remembered by colleagues as being unflappable in theatre with a calm demeanour that soothed any histrionics.
Times, Sunday Times
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At present, the president has the constitutional power to dismiss an elected government for large scale misdemeanours.
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I ask if he was at all nervous about detailing past crimes and misdemeanours.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was something about her calm, cool demeanour and the way her words sounded like they had been rehearsed and perfected which rendered Jack speechless.
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His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.
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He floored them with his simple demeanour and inspired them with his motivating speech on ‘My Beautiful India.’
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Although to say the man was a big influence on me musically would be a gross understatement, I will personally remember Piggy best for his disarming demeanour.
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_upon all_, it were found that some of _such_ counts -- that is, that some of the misdemeanours -- charged, must be withdrawn from the consideration of the court, by reason of defects in either the counts themselves or the findings upon them, it cannot, in many cases, be supposed that the sentence could be the same as if the court had the duty thrown upon it of punishing _all the offences charged_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
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This resulted in an unseemly scramble from the same prisoners all claiming to be guilty (usually of petty misdemeanours).
Times, Sunday Times
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A charge could be brought as a felony or misdemeanour.
The Sun
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An authorial demeanour indicative of lofty, uncompromising cerebration casts an oppressive shadow over all the essays.
Times, Sunday Times
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It requires a bowler with a strong mind, a calm demeanour and a quick understanding of what is required.
Times, Sunday Times
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His demeanour was so blunt as sometimes might be termed clownish, yet there was in his language and manner a force and energy corresponding to his character, which impressed awe, if it did not impose respect; and there were even times when that dark and subtle spirit expanded itself, so as almost to conciliate affection.
Woodstock
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But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Despite the new grown-up demeanour, some aspects of the girl still spill over.
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Grif's sensitive, intelligent and sweet-tempered demeanour sets him apart from his more mundane siblings.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Woman," thought Nietzsche, "is essentially unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanour.
The Task of Social Hygiene
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I understand his misdemeanours included serious breaches of discipline such as when to return to the team hotel.
The Sun
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Page 297 to me that son altesse royale might be seriously hurt, that nothing in her demeanour had announced her, rank; and such a discovery might lead to increased distance and reserve in her future conduct upon other extra audiences, that could not but be prejudicial to her popularity, which already was injured by an opinion extremely unjust, but very generally spread, of her haughtiness.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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With his lithe figure, blond hair and imperious demeanour, he also looked special.
Times, Sunday Times
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But casual demeanour belies a character that, say former colleagues, is rather unforgiving of those not in command of the facts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both men are renowned for their friendly demeanour and reassuring manner.
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Reports suggest he has had occasion to shed the gentlemanly demeanour and give miscreants a good dressing-down.
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Nothing in his languid, arm-over-the-back-of-the-chair demeanour suggests that he moves with the lightness of a gazelle or handles a rugby ball so well that it appears at times to be soldered to the palm of his hand.
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Not so long ago minor misdemeanours were dealt with by a short, sharp, shock like a clip round the ear.
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Lara, thanks to her confident demeanour was one of the easy favourites throughout the evening.
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That notorious night out is the foremost allegation in a catalogue of misdemeanours that the player will be reminded of for as long as he lives.
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There are too many people serving short spells for crimes such as minor financial misdemeanours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands were stopped for questioning and more than 400 arrested for mainly minor misdemeanours during a six-month police dragnet of the local area.
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He buckled, contracted design of atmospheric, whole workmanship, underlines the high quality quality, let you wear a city and spell able female elegant demeanour.
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From Lestrade's demeanour, I could tell it was a murder case and this paper could hold the clue to solving it.
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There are teddy bears with a friendly demeanour, puppies with endearing looks, comical elephants with outspread ears, energetic monkeys with a cheerful grin, and cherubic children with innocent smiles on their charming faces.
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He has a certain bustle about his demeanour, which bodes well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many were put off by his wooden demeanour and background of north-eastern liberal politics.
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Nevertheless, when they met thereafter, his demeanour to her was none otherwise than it had been; but she no longer heeded this since now she trowed in him.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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With his artisan/architect demeanour most would expect more obscure references; more mystery, metaphor, or magic dust.
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One view sought the origin of the crisis in the abstract and unrealistic demeanour of the rapidly evolving, mathematised neoclassical theory that was incapable of answering important economic policy questions.
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All this, as was most natural and proper, only stimulated the Lady’s curiosity; neither was her importunity to be parried with, — “Thank God, I am no makebate — no tale-bearer, — thank God, I never envied any one’s favour, or was anxious to propale their misdemeanour-only, thank God, there has been no bloodshed and murder in the house — that is all.”
The Abbot
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At Trinity Hall, the thirteenth day of October, 1704, in presence of John Findlay, deacon, compeared John Watson, John Youngson, William Pirie, John Kempt, Patrick Gray, John Mair, and George Gray, and submitted themselves to the court of the Wright and Coupar Trade for their abuse therein in contravening and vilipending the deacon and other mis-demeanours.
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Cargill returned to his native country alone, indulging upon the road in a melancholy abstraction of mind, which he had suffered to grow upon him since the mental shock which he had sustained, and which in time became the most characteristical feature of his demeanour.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Many who have “plied their book diligently,” and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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The Tories want to bring in ‘zero tolerance’ policing in an effort to give communities more confidence that they will be protected from crime and warn the unruly that their misdemeanours will not go unnoticed.
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I found myself feeling anxious and uptight as I adopted his demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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His mistakes and misdemeanours have been public ones, but he insists he has learned from them.
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First you have to be certain of your facts about this woman's past misdemeanours.
Times, Sunday Times
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He lacked the friendly demeanour and matey style.
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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
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His bold and free demeanour, his attachment to rich dress and decoration, his inaptitude to receive instruction, and his hardening himself against rebuke, were circumstances which induced the good old man, with more haste than charity, to set the forward page down as a vessel of wrath, and to presage that the youth nursed that pride and haughtiness of spirit which goes before ruin and destruction.
The Abbot
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But with the exception of a visit to New York in September 2001, this book is just a series of anecdotes about caravans, blocked toilets, petty rows and minor misdemeanours in her car.
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Of course, his fragile looks and haunted demeanour tell a different story.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last night I bit the bullet and went to see my neighbour about her teenage dirtbag of a daughter and the noise along with a list of other minor misdemeanours.
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We won't talk about her earliest misdemeanours: light fingers, soliciting, a suspended sentence.
DISPLACED PERSON
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A lack of monitoring means misdemeanours go largely unreported, but already many British security firms, who traditionally enjoy the best reputation, have expressed worries about some of their colleagues' waywardness.
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LADY DAINAGON is very small and refined, white, beautiful, and round, though in demeanour very lofty.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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There were no carriages, and grass had sprung high in the streets; the houses had a desolate look; most of the shutters were closed; and there was a ghast and frightened stare in the persons I met, very different from the usual business-like demeanour of the Londoners.
The Last Man
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His smooth, cool and seamless demeanour contrasts to that of the rough and passionate Dunn.
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Bolt set up a special fund from which to pay the fines he incurred for these misdemeanours.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was targeted by one particularly attractive 16-year-old, who in dress and demeanour fitted exactly the teenage seductress stereotype.
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He is charged with several misdemeanour, including driving without a valid licence and creating a disturbance.
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Behind the broadcaster's hail-fellow-well-met demeanour and bluster lies an extremely astute and clued-in individual, who meets criticism of his television style with quotes from Mark Twain.
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PC Dunn suggested that the appellant's demeanour was jittery and very uneasy.
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Coach Hager as great as his staff will take something certain divided from the William & Mary diversion as great as demeanour to build as great as reanimate during the bye week as great as hope for for Towson when the Tigers revisit Parson Field in dual weeks.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Many were put off by his wooden demeanour and background of north-eastern liberal politics.
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But none of these, simpliciter, is either high crime or misdemeanour.
Balkinization
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Every week, as children, we were beaten for some minor misdemeanour.
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One element in the puzzling Aberdeen which has changed, however, is the boss who, while still displaying the same lugubrious demeanour, has learned several savage lessons about the Premier League.
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Thus man wishes woman to be peaceable: but in fact woman is ESSENTIALLY unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanour.
Beyond Good and Evil
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His gentle demeanour gives way only once or twice.
Times, Sunday Times
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And we will you send vs aduertisement from time to time as well as of the demeanours of our Prentises which we doe send now as also of such other as bee already there with you.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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She also made claims against officers, who she says were not suspended for more serious misdemeanours than the accusation against her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not one of them seems to have understood how serious a'high crime or misdemeanour' they were conspiring to commit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Samantha Womack, who exited EastEnders after its contentious baby-snatching storyline, is larky in voice and sparky in demeanour but and this can't have been due to her broken toe has a disconcerting habit of swinging her arms up and down as if trying to take off.
One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review
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Judy, an elegant woman in her early 40s with a peaceful demeanour, bids us sit down in the verandah.
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Perhaps as the American framers conceived of the operation of their system, a wide spread and deeply felt, national, sense of repugnance, a feeling that democratic and constitutional values are being held in contempt is enough in constitutional terms to self-define conduct as “high crime and misdemeanour.”
Balkinization
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Edith grew paler and thinner, and so quiet, that Aunt Rachel was quite pleased with what she called her niece's "becoming demeanour.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
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But I can see in her performances, interviews and general demeanour that she is still the loud, selfish, grabby person she was back then.
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The story centres around Ookami Ryouko, a high school freshman girl known for her fierce looks, unusual canine teeth when she smiles, and wild demeanour (her family name is homonymous with the Japanese word for "wolf").
Anime Nano!
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He is remembered by colleagues as being unflappable in theatre with a calm demeanour that soothed any histrionics.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cyberpunk hackers, crackers, phreakers, cyphers, and cyberchic not only expose corporate crimes and misdemeanours, they also penetrate corporate and governmental computer systems and cause occasional havoc.
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His rotund figure, sharp sound bites and jolly demeanour endeared him to the public.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this, as was most natural and proper, only stimulated the Lady’s curiosity; neither was her importunity to be parried with, — “Thank God, I am no makebate — no tale-bearer, — thank God, I never envied any one’s favour, or was anxious to propale their misdemeanour-only, thank God, there has been no bloodshed and murder in the house — that is all.”
The Abbot
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But then the lights change, his demeanour changes, the whole atmosphere changes, and with the glass of fake absinthe glowing green in one hand, a leatherbound tome in the other, Andres shatters any trace of a doubt I might have had about a Chorus who looks younger than any other actor on stage.
Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 2: That Toddlin Town
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His gentle demeanour hid his fighting spirit which made him a born leader.
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And the schedule is there, so your Honours can see how the felonies and misdemeanours were changed.
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It goes back to the 05 Ashes I think; his fresh-faced schoolboy appearance and demeanour, skittishly, coltishly hopping around the crease in defence, against Warne in particular.
The Guardian World News
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Thousands were stopped for questioning and more than 400 arrested for mainly minor misdemeanours during a six-month police dragnet of the local area.
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And what about Brown's mild-mannered demeanour, wondered Gray; could his intelligence and articulateness have been detrimental to doing the job properly?
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Successful haggling requires the calm demeanour of the poker player.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's something about its look and demeanour that is slightly uncomfortable.
Times, Sunday Times
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To an eye so unobserving as that of Bucklaw, her demeanour had little more of reluctance than might suit the character of a bashful young lady, who, however, he could not disguise from himself, was complying with the choice of her friends rather than exercising any personal predilection in his favour.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Commendably, the friendly demeanour he displayed on that Perth range in January was unchanged.
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He gave coherent answers to questions and his demeanour appeared to be normal.
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His dress was colourful - bright red shorts and calf-length socks - but the demeanour was subdued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anger and resentment had elbowed aside his normally amiable demeanour.
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There's a coffee stain on her dress and a sleepy naughtiness to her demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The need to turn around his public image and erase the memory of past misdemeanours is not the only requirement of a man who aspires to return the Conservatives to government.
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Despite his shambolic demeanour, Doyle has been riding the Asian new wave pretty shrewdly.
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She is ensconced in the embrace of a plump white sofa for our interview, and adopts a relaxed demeanour which hides any visible trace of nerves.
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The need to turn around his public image and erase the memory of past misdemeanours is not the only requirement of a man who aspires to return the Conservatives to government.
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He was of a meane stature, very wise and politike, and passing serious and graue in all his demeanour.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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The facts were that the lady discharged her firearm against two youngsters who were totally innocent of any misdemeanour.
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The Tories want to bring in ‘zero tolerance’ policing in an effort to give communities more confidence that they will be protected from crime and warn the unruly that their misdemeanours will not go unnoticed.
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Even if morality does reach down to our private lives, is it morally justifiable to punish someone in their public life for their private misdemeanours?
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In organizations, investigations are commissioned to catalogue an individual's failures and misdemeanours.
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His apparently replaceable musical cohorts are polite and articulate, and their demeanour amply reflects the band's name - short for the very un-rock'n'roll call sign, Will Comply.
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He is a man with a serious demeanour, an upright carriage and a longish face.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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Despite his shambolic demeanour, he has been riding the Asian new wave pretty shrewdly.
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Regarding the latter, I feel compelled to append it with the phrase, ‘but with a certain mischievous, devil may care, and oft attractive demeanour’
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You may already have heard the worst of his crimes and misdemeanours.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I came to her, I saw nought dreadful or ugsome about her: she was cheerful of countenance and courteous of demeanour, and greeted me kindly as one neighbour in the street of Wulstead might do to another.
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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He said his demeanour and attitude during questioning was not that of a man who had something to hide.
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At others her expression and demeanour almost seem absent, detached, as if beyond the music.
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His resonant voice and polished demeanour fitted him for roles as a barrister, judge, headmaster and doctor.
Times, Sunday Times
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A gravely sedate demeanour would have seemed the more fitting facial expression for his age and the generally accepted nature of his calling, -- a kind of deprecatory toleration of the sunshine as part of the universal 'vanity' of mundane things, -- or a condescending consciousness of the bursting apple-blossoms within his reach as a kind of inferior earthy circumstance which could neither be altered nor avoided.
God's Good Man
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His demeanour as a speaker at the luncheon had to some extent prepared me.
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He has moved into a new home, is engaged, and the settled outlook is being reflected in enthusiastic performances and a relaxed demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its demeanour is that of the same old story as they have once again failed to exceed their own limitations, making it a must for fans but not so hot for the rest of us.
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He was, if I read his demeanour aright, delighted with the whole episode.
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This is a woman whose demeanour suggests she is the opposite of frivolous.
Times, Sunday Times
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His 67 yesterday was impressive, but his demeanour ultraserious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's known for his soft, suave nasal voice and gentle demeanour.
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It has been evident in your manner and demeanour that you do not wish to talk to me and so I have not approached you until now.
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Its happy demeanour comes from the "frons" - the frontal area of an insect's head above the mouth parts.
Clipmarks | Live Clips
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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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Looking at his standard-issue scurrying gait, his shrugging, mousey demeanour, and then witnessing the preternatural skittering electricity in those feet, you wonder why there hasn't ever been one of these before, or even hundreds of them.
Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay
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Your demeanour is written down as is whom you are hanging around with.
The Para-Dice Riders Charter Case Against Police Roadblocks
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He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour.
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Consider her demeanour when she emerged from the courtroom after hearing her guilty verdict wearing that ill-advised dyed chinchilla scarf.
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ENGLAND'S batsmen were teased and tormented by a Pakistan bowler playing his first Test since being banned for a misdemeanour.
The Sun
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But casual demeanour belies a character that, say former colleagues, is rather unforgiving of those not in command of the facts.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is remembered by colleagues as being unflappable in theatre with a calm demeanour that soothed any histrionics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never mind Ulrika or Faria, the entire nation was initially seduced by the bespectacled, multi-lingual charmer whose ice-cool, unflustered demeanour we took to signify a master tactician at work.
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Although he affects a gentle demeanour, O'Leary has a long memory and his opinions can be acidic.
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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
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Beneath the languid demeanour and the aristocratic drawl was what one of his closest civil service allies called a ‘constructive ruthlessness’.
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For example, in the AFL there are approximately 600 contracted footballers and in any one season, the misdemeanours of a few muddy the water for all.
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I'm sure he's also a nice man but beyond that, well, his demeanour and golf game are not exactly designed to send the blood coursing through the veins.
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It has been evident in your manner and demeanour that you do not wish to talk to me and so I have not approached you until now.
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His gentle demeanour hid his fighting spirit which made him a born leader.
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For his press conference, he turned up right on time and his demeanour was stern and serious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has a certain bustle about his demeanour, which bodes well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lord of my heart, no more shall there be for me waiting in corners, no more coyness and sweetness of demeanour.
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I never yet saw the well-reared child, much less the educated adult, who could not put me to shame, by the sustained intelligence of its demeanour under the ordeal of a conversable, sociable visitation of pictures, historical sights or buildings, or any lions of public interest.
Villette
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All the misdemeanours and malpractices of the town, -- and they were happening every day and every night, -- were all reported to the Recorder; they were all, so to say, charged home upon the Recorder, and he was held responsible for them all; till his office was a perfect laystall and cesspool of all the scum and corruption of the town.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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It was galling to her to observe his change in demeanour.
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He is charged with several misdemeanour, including driving without a valid licence and creating a disturbance.
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The real problem is the secretive demeanour of one particular individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look at the vocabulary here: prophylactic, pacific, equanimity, cubistic, demeanour, this is not a man who will use one syllable when three or four would suffice.
Reading Lolita « Tales from the Reading Room
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His outer demeanour belies a steely resolve.
Times, Sunday Times
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He felt genuine awe at this superhuman man, at once so puissant, so self-possessed, so monomaniac in his demeanour.
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There's a coffee stain on her dress and a sleepy naughtiness to her demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is ensconced in the embrace of a plump white sofa for our interview, and adopts a relaxed demeanour which hides any visible trace of nerves.
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As darkness descends, standing there looking over us, the tree takes on an almost human demeanour, especially when it is lit by a rising full moon.
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If so, maintaining a calm demeanour could be your biggest challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Previously it was up to the police to deal with such misdemeanours but now contractor-operated automatic cameras are being entrusted with the job.
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But casual demeanour belies a character that, say former colleagues, is rather unforgiving of those not in command of the facts.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the time of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn wished to give the post of abbess to a friend, but King Henry had scruples on the subject, for the proposed abbess had a somewhat shady reputation; he wrote, "I would not for all the gold in the world clog your conscience nor mine to make her a ruler of a house, which is of so ungodly a demeanour, nor I trust you would not that neither for brother nor sister I should so bestain mine honour or conscience.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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There's a coffee stain on her dress and a sleepy naughtiness to her demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even if morality does reach down to our private lives, is it morally justifiable to punish someone in their public life for their private misdemeanours?
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No other player of the modern age has such an unassuming demeanour off the course and such a thunderous presence on it.
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I think there is somnething in your description if the styles of misdemeanour although the cash for honours car boot is what this is really about and involving Brown who after all did know ..if he`s not incompetent
Con-way Parallels: More Like Old School Tory Felony
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We were even regaled by a lovely Thai dancer whose deft hand movements and graceful demeanour enthralled the group.
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Behind his affable, bluff demeanour and disingenuous screen image, one senses he is the master of all he surveys, not quite the lone reporter, rather a general marshalling an army of researchers.
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The word furtive might have been invented to describe his dodgy demeanour.
