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What Alford may be trying to do is somehow blur the line between manners and morals.
"Life used to be much simpler before computers, didn't it?" The relationship between manners and memory has always been fraught: anyone who utters "Have we met?" has walked on etiquette's knife blade.
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That heavy-handed business with the white pigment wasn't just a proto-Expressionist performance but a calculated fit between manner and matter.
As perfectly played by Michelle Dockery, fiercely articulating the story of her aunt's presumed murder, it induces a comic ecstasy through the contrast between manner and matter.
On the same theme: Jean-Luc Godard's 1987 video "On S'est Tous Défilé," commissioned by Marithé and François Girbaud, breaks down conventional boundaries between found and confected style, between manner and essence, between artifice and reality.
each designed to learn word-dependent synchronization between manner and place.
(1) Asynchrony between manner of articulation (the type of a sound, e.g., stop, fricative, vowel) and place of articulation (the shape of the lips and tongue when a sound is produced, e.g., lip rounding, position of the tongue tip).
With respect to the V-DE construction, Huang et al. (2009) make a distinction between "manner V-DE" (see 29) and "resultative V-DE" (see 30) (cf. Li and Thompson's (1981) "manner" interpretation and "extent" interpretation of the V-DE construction).
This further distinction nicely captures the intuition behind Li and Thompson's (1981) distinction between "manner" and "extent" V-DE constructions and behind Li's (1990) distinction between "descriptive" and "resultative" V-DE constructions.
With respect to the distinction between entity-predicative and eventuality-predicative V-DE constructions, it nicely captures the intuition behind Li and Thompson's (1981) distinction between "manner" V-DE constructions and "extent" V-DE constructions and behind Li's (1990) distinction between "descriptive" V-DE constructions and "resultative" V-DE constructions.
Then there's the whole class of behaviors that fall somewhere between bad manners and bad mannerisms.
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