It turned out he wasn't acting in the play; he was living it, in a manner of speaking: His job is to place ads, ads in print publications.
There was nothing wrong with the Lions defence, but it was a manner of rugby that was simply beyond them.
"It was a manner of breaking the abusive power of the Catholic Church and reactive elements of society, and this changed the sensibility of the country," Berkins said.
As with Anthony Weiner, another subject of political mortification, it is a manner of looking that, once shared, makes the viewer repellant, not the viewed.
James Martin (Op-Ed, March 25) writes, "Those who opt for celibacy... choose it as a manner of loving many people deeply, in a way that they would be unable to if they were in a single relationship".
Therefore, PO establishes an approach to link organizational strategy to implementation within operational processes and it is a manner of putting external emphasis on outcome and customer satisfaction rather than internally driven hierarchical structures or functions [ 19].
It's not a manner of wanting to tell a story, it's a need.
Nowadays, it is, in a manner of speaking, always hunting season at the Department of the Interior.
But once the poem gets written, it is, in a manner of speaking, none of your business.
Elmore Leonard's answer, entertainingly worked out as narrative, appears to be "possibly so" — or maybe it's "in a manner of speaking".
