No matter how cheery the soirees at Nail's place, Leonard's grim, forbidding demeanor is unfailingly funny.
It is one part of who he is, and his demeanor — fiery, occasionally funny, both straitlaced and surly — is certainly another.
He lowers his voice to growl the majority of his lines, and while his brusque demeanor is occasionally funny, it also lacks dimension.
"I constantly try to convince people to make their beds this way and they say, 'You want me to live like a monk in a monastery!' " Cotton, an intense and funny man with a boyishly gritty demeanor, laughs.
Ashcroft has a different demeanor in private — expansive, often funny, self-deprecating.
The rest of the cast is strong, too, particularly Joe Armstrong, as Ashley, the lead kidnapper, whose jovial, businesslike demeanor takes on a grimly funny aspect once the plan deteriorates.
That they would face an unrelated quarterback with the same last name and an entirely different demeanor in the playoffs is a funny coincidence.
Tom Meek of Film Threat said the film was not funny enough but still found "something rewarding in its quirky demeanor".
Constantly talking incessant nonsense on the phone, customer or no customer, Sarup's demeanor is pitch-perfect and laugh-out-loud funny.
Over the subsequent interview, Mr. Bush projected a demeanor that was alternately intense and jocular, cutting and funny, and that never showed any fissures of worry.
