What makes English manners so peculiarly difficult is that you can never be entirely certain the person you are talking to is in fact lying.
Writing after the events of 1604 1606, the Jesuit priest Father Tesimond's description of his friend was favourable: "his countenance was exceedingly noble and expressive ... his conversation and manners were peculiarly attractive and imposing, and that by the dignity of his character he exercised an irresistible influence over the minds of those who associated with him".
His self-deprecating manner gave him a peculiarly English charm, which concealed the originality of his mind; most of his friends considered him a genius.
had a peculiarly intimate, lingering manner of handling things". But there is absolutely nothing memorable in the watery, vaudevillian description of the urban poor—"the proles"—in "1984"; it is just neutered Gissing.
Vreeland's peculiarly vivid appearance and manner and her regally nutty pronouncements made her almost a self-parody, but Wilson shows us the self beneath the lacquer of parody.
In the same manner the new book is a peculiarly haunting work, since it has as much to do with what is absent from its characters' stories as with what is present.
Surviving pockets of wooden structures from perhaps the turn of the 20th century, as well as the xylographic art of Edo, tell us that Tokyo must once have been a very pleasing city in the severe, monochrome manner held by many to be peculiarly Japanese.
(His collection "Among the Missing" was a nominee for the National Book Award). In the same manner the new book is a peculiarly haunting work, since it has as much to do with what is absent from its characters' stories as with what is present.
It was a peculiarly Afghan way of resolving things.
Breaching anyone's personal boundaries in such a manner is just so obviously a no-no, but there's something peculiarly cruel about doing it to a woman who is perpetually obliged to maintain the image of a serene, sexually liberated matriarch.
The Independent considers Thompson to be a "one-woman institution" who "espouses a peculiarly British image", and Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe compared her often dogmatic, tight-jawed manner to Maggie Smith.
