Sentence examples for manner of a man from inspiring English sources

In the manner of a man sticking his head between a lion's jaws, he spoke with care.

I drew it under my nose, giving it a sniff in the manner of a man with a fine cigar.

Key put his head in his hands and arranged his body in the manner of a man drained of hope.

Ramsay certainly begins the interview in the manner of a man working hard to come across well.

Unlike some of her colleagues in drag, Hindle boldly lived in the manner of a man, to the point of marrying a woman.

Hansen, who is sixty-eight, has greenish eyes, sparse brown hair, and the distracted manner of a man who's just lost his wallet.

He paints an artist in fast and loose outlines, in the manner of Rolf Harris, a man with a pin-head and a colossal body holding something that might be a brush (is there a worse painter of hands at work today?) on a wriggly, squiggly canvas in which turquoise meets boiler-suit blue in garish conjunctions.

This was a cheap budget delivered in a manner unworthy of a man with the title of chancellor of the exchequer.

But it's also true that his insouciant manner – that of a man who's there to quite abruptly ask Simon what he's doing with a carrot and occasionally chop off the top of his finger – is the secret of the show's success.

The 32-year-old talks in the plain-speaking, no nonsense manner borne of a man who spent his formative years deep in the South African bush, growing up in Phalaborwa, a small town in the far-north province of Limpopo.

He needs to know how to function in the manner of a blind man as well.