The person, whom he now adopted in this manner, and from similar feelings to those which had inspired his early attachments to the cottage-boy near Newstead, and the young chorister at Cambridge, was a Greek youth, named Nicolo Giraud, the son, I believe, of a widow lady, in whose house the artist Lusieri lodged.
Her pieces, which are usually built around her own voice, often adopt the manner of a lecture.
She says: "In his soul he is an intelligence agent, but he has been remarkably quick to adopt the manners and rules of the game of big business by becoming a fashionable dandy.
In a year in which the likely presidential opponents, both wealthy Yale-educated scions of patrician New England families, will adopt the manners, costumes and vehicles of what they take to be the Nascar demographic, their masquerade as ordinary guys will tell us no more than their rhetorical dodging and weaving before today's Lawrence Spivak, Tim Russert.
While previous commissions have been largely playful interruptions to the grand Victorian decorum of the square, Gift Horse adopts the manner of official 19th-century public art.
The Normans who conquered the Saracens in the 11th century adopted the manner of life of those they had overthrown, and thus the emirs' gardens survived their makers.
Wide-eyed and pleading in the witness box, he adopted the manner of a schoolboy caught stealing from the tuck shop.
Although he was born into a middle-class Jewish family, he adopted the manner of a Russian count and every day dressed as if he were on his way to a grand opening at the opera.
Harappans began producing the indigenous ceramic goods, adopting the manner from the natives.
Answering to his superior, "The Bishop", Unwin is stationed at his vicarage with Matthew Harding – another agent who, when not assisting the Father on missions, adopts the manner of a simple gardener.
In keeping with the instability of identity that goes with modern narcissism, Mavis also adopts different personae as it suits her: at home she plays the dumpy writer in baggy jeans and t-shirts, but when she wants to seduce her old boyfriend she dresses in a low-cut black dress and adopts the manner of a big-city sophisticate.
