Sentence examples for demeanor held from inspiring English sources

His calm demeanor held until late in the Senate hearing, when he made a show of looking at his watch as questioning threatened to run into time set for the House session on the opposite side of Capitol Hill.

Jesse McCartney seemed a throwback to the mid-'90s, the high years of boy bands: he danced and sang decently, helped along by a backup singing-dancing crew, but above all his demeanor held steady: fresh and aloof.

That demeanor held, even as Pichai dodged here and pushed a handful of misrepresentations and mistruths there.

But when you hear another story of another unarmed black man killed by another white police officer over another petty mis-demeanor, hold back from the knee-jerk "it's not all cops".

In a study conducted by Essence about black women's experiences in a white-dominated workplace, the magazine found "that scores of us are so worried about being perceived negatively that we hide our authentic selves in the workplace, choosing instead to tone down our appearance, soften our demeanor and hold back in our conversations".

These ads showed black men and women with cool and even empowering demeanors as they held a cigarette.

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It is a commonly held belief, reinforced by his on-court demeanor, which suggests a man digging himself out of a Scandinavian winter.

The staff consciously kept a neutral demeanor, did not stand out, stayed quiet, closed their ears, and held their tongues.

Andrew browsed the palms, but they held little appeal for him: these plants, with their pompous demeanor, belonged next to the coatroom in a funeral home.

Walking through Harvard Yard again alongside people who once had more spring in their step and more attitude in their demeanor, I found myself questioning a lot of the assumptions I'd held for years, both during college and since.