Sentence examples for ill manner from inspiring English sources

"Using his oriental-shaped eyes to produce deadly squints," Saunders writes, "he had acquired from the brusque atmosphere of City College an ill manner which rarely deserted him".

Early users of the bicycle were also viewed in some quarters with scorn, with some newspapers portraying cyclists as hoodlums of ill manner.

Sports fans really want to read about the athletes' performances, not their peccadilloes, their ill manners or boorish behavior.

It's that simple" – Gégauff was a man of the right, but they shared a taste for the comedy of ill manners.

Later, Brian overreacts to what he perceives as Tony's ill manners, and this grown man makes a petulant outburst that is a wince-making misjudgment.

"If they can impeach Bill Clinton for infidelity, then they can impeach him for unreasoning and ill manners," said LaKela Maye, 27, who moved away from Mobile for college but recently returned when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

There is no excuse for ill manners and insults, though of course there is an explanation: usually, the impotence and weakness of the insulter and his or her case.

This is Noël Coward's comedy of ill manners, "Long Island Sound," which was written in 1947 but had its premiere only Monday night, in an Off Broadway production at the American Theater of Actors to continue through May 25.

The central characters in these comedies of ill manners are two of Bennett's stock-in-trade older ladies: they take tea and attempt to keep up appearances in the emotional wastes of a suburbia where curtains twitch and desires go, for the most part, unfulfilled.

The ill manners.

While some of what is perceived as rude by Westerners stems from cultural issues — the notion of public space and privacy is very different in China — other ill-manners date back to the Cultural Revolution when all that was seen as sophistication was considered bourgeois and severely punished.