The manner of self-portrayal leans towards the academic.
Before long he is spinning all manner of self-serving fictions.
However, Nadal has undoubtedly wormed his way into Federer's head this year, setting up all manner of self-doubts.
The government and the party have adopted all manner of self-flagellating resolutions, bemoaning their own inefficiency and corruption and promising change, but with little effect.
"Hacking," in the group's parlance, can involve any manner of self-directed learning: travel, volunteer work, organizing collaborative learning groups with friends.
Of course, one of the strengths of the movie is that it's both — the manner of self-presentation channels both Vito Acconci and Woody Allen, but not "Saturday Night Live" or Sarah Silverman.
The only errors of tone occur when the author obtrudes himself in the manner of self-conscious literary reportage, gussying the narrative up with needless speculation about his own personal motives for his longstanding obsession with his subject.
By turns a comedian, a confessor and prophet"); and Meg's husband, Arthur Cook, a former shipyard worker turned industrial titan ("in the manner of self-made men, confident, assertive and jealous of all that's his").
Every weekday for the next month, we'll get to see Coach Trip's dangerously irrepressible ringmaster Brendan Sheerin escort a number of attention-seeking tourists around Europe, forcing them into all manner of self-consciously wacky challenges and seeing who falls out with who.
In evangelical circles, there's a name for the most extreme manner of self-regulation: to refuse to eat, travel, or meet alone with a woman is to follow the "Billy Graham rule," which stems from a story that the famous pastor told about walking into a hotel room and finding a naked woman, bent on destroying his ministry, sprawled across his bed.
