The sense I make of it will be based on the memory I have of the promise as well as on knowledge of the manner in which promises both create commitments and constrain people's future plans and actions.
This experimental count, however, must be interpreted in the light of a thorough knowledge of the particular manner of radioactive decay in the sample material, because some sources emit more than one particle or photon per disintegration.
When he works with his own players in the EOC – as he will in March with a groundbreaking, intimate production of Cavalli's L'Ormindo at the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe – Curnyn can rely on their intimate knowledge of 18th-century style, manners and instruments.
As Post writes in the 1922 edition, the "Best Society is not a fellowship of the wealthy, nor does it seek to exclude those who are not of exalted birth; but it is an association of gentle-folk, of which good form in speech, charm of manner, knowledge of the social amenities, and instinctive consideration for the feelings of others, are the credentials".
Her exhaustive knowledge of Regency fashions, manners and cant exclamations decked out an affluent, claustrophobic little world where heroines with guinea-golden curls inevitably ended up in the arms of powerful-thighed, privately-incomed aristocrats, being ruthlessly kissed.
While she was in graduate school, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she made a concerted effort to expand her vocabulary through paint, to build her knowledge of color and manners of application.
(The notion, sometimes found at large in America, that Sarkozy is in some way un-French, rather than merely unsuccessful, is bizarre, by the way, and depends on an absurdly shallow knowledge of French history and manners; small hyper-energetic men with a taste for action are not exactly unknown in its history. Bonapartism refers not merely to a man but to a whole political inclination).
Why it's still going The fusion of history, knowledge and manners speaks of gentler times and nobler ways, of humility, tweed, bicycle bells and feigned interest in the provenance of one's scrimshaw.
-G.K. CHESTERTON The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study.
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study.
