I don't mind his self-imposed silence on his personal life - he refuses to say whether he lives alone or with someone, or give any hint as to what manner of person it might be, although he refuses this time in a kind and mildly apologetic manner.
In the social sciences, the term is often used with reference to ethnic groups (see also racism), but prejudice can exist toward any manner of person or group on the basis of factors that have nothing at all to do with ethnicity, such as weight, disability, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.
The reason for this is because unless you're five years old, an unadventurous straight girl, or some other manner of person who sucks, you've probably had your mouth on a vagina and want to grow better and better in your skills as your life moves forward.
Once this information is public, the person in question is open to all manner of personal threats, swatting, COD pizza delivery and so on.
I pressed him on the neutrality of her body, and his voice lifted, in the manner of a person making a potentially surprising counterpoint.
Her conversation is characterised by an air of enchanted bewilderment; she recounts fascinating episodes in her career in the manner of a person wondering how these miracles could have happened to her of all people.
Perhaps Mr. Cook is some new kind of conceptual satirist whose shtick is to behave in the manner of a person attempting to be funny without actually being, you know, funny.
In California and elsewhere, the staunchest adversaries of the right to die are churches and religious believers who assert that the time, place and manner of each person's death is chosen by God, and that we have no right to change that regardless of the human cost.
It basically means there is no one theory that outweighs the others regarding the cause and manner of a person's death.
