THE END OF MANNERS By Francesca Marciano.
It was habituated by practicing good manners, by being dependable, punctual and responsible day by day.
The idea was to rough up museum manners by importing the raw fabric of outside work.
The bowler S. Sreesanth, it was said, defied cricket manners by being unusually aggressive.
He placed a high value on what he called manners, by which he meant honesty, gracefulness, candour.
The New Yorker, November 7, 1936 P. 17 Summarized study of a pamphlet, "The Technique of Good Manners", by Mary Perin Barker.
A dark comedy of manners by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "Blood" follows the adventures of Phoebe Zeitgeist, an alien sent to earth to learn about "human democracy".
A LADY AT THE TABLE A Concise, Contemporary Guide to Table Manners By Sheryl Shade With John Bridges and Bryan Curtis.
Call it what you like, but a code of manners by any other name still provides a set of rules that dictate how people behave in public.
Neither does it allow for a guest who ditches debating manners – by resolutely ducking questions and greeting discussion of Nazi atrocities with a perfectly punchable half-smile.
On the surface, the setup seems the predictable folderol of a comedy of manners; by degrees, however, the characterizations become an extraordinary metaphor that resonates with our own noisy, deracinating moment.
