Sentence examples for deferential manner from inspiring English sources

But he retains the deferential manner of a mid-level petroleum engineer.

"Let me ask you something," Bennett began, in his characteristically soft and deferential manner.

His elaborately deferential manner can make him seem aloof or strange, even enigmatic.

He was good-looking, gregarious, and, not least, adept at sweet-talking me, but his deferential manner didn't sit well with me.

The sentimental vision of improvised families is based on the total commitment and total dependence of a black man whose deferential manner reeks of subjugation and fear.

Mr. Coleman, with his steady, deferential manner, sought to garner more of the kind of plaudits he has received for running a positive campaign since the plane crash.

Mr. Hubbard, a man as burly in stature as he is deferential in manner, has been working offshore since 1986, after he reconsidered a career as a welder.

Thanks to military training, his back will be straight and his manner deferential.

But of all of Russia's billionaires, Mr. Khodorkovsky, with his fastidiously deferential, even bashful manner, was perhaps the least likely to flout power.

He also has good manners, is deferential toward women and demonstrates a certain reticence about speaking any more than is necessary.

He speaks softly, often dropping his "r"s; his manner is usually deferential.