Sentence examples for local manners from inspiring English sources
And there is some fun to be had with the mismatch between modern clothes and idiom and local manners.
These are the best places for second breakfast, offering not only sustenance but also opportunities to observe local manners, identify strange languages, eavesdrop and look at the newspapers.
When, pragmatically, he crosses a deserted street against the light, a motorist stops to loudly upbraid him; Abish, adopting local manners, shouts back, "What business is it of yours?" and is told, in an aggrieved tone, "You're wearing an eye patch.... your eyesight is impaired.
"If you don't take the time to learn or at least understand the local manners, then you will come across as disrespectful," she says.
"If you don't take the time to learn--or at least understand--the local manners, then you will come across as disrespectful," she says.
"This is it," he said, nodding at the graceless apartment building that had, in the local manner, risen to take its place.
In her movie debut, the actress Denise Darcel pressed a large loaf of bread to her tight-fitting sweater, held up a large kitchen knife and proceeded to slowly saw off pieces toward her bosom, in the local manner.
Many structures in the built environment have geometries that are either symmetric or almost symmetric, however damage typically occurs in a local manner causing asymmetric changes in the structure's geometry or material properties, and alters its mode shapes.
That writer, David McAninch, first encountered his borrowed Gallic terroir in 2012, when he traveled to the region to research a story on duck and rapturously succumbed to the local manner of preparing it — whether confited, carpaccioed, grilled, roasted, braised in wine or scattered as cracklings across a salad.
But as we aim to recover from multiple failures in a local manner, these codes become an attractive option.
Further analysis shows that in this interpretation EPR-type situations can be understood in a basically local manner.
