Sentence examples for old manner from inspiring English sources

A state legislature can "direct" this in any old manner it likes.

In the 1960s, language became less formal, and now anybody who uses the old manner is regarded as an eccentric.

The structure of the book is complex; the style is a triumph of stylistic art, in the old manner of setting style to subject.

What survives from his old manner is a heroic rhetoric of wide intervals, as if the American sublime has been sublimated and purged of anything local.

An altar boy trailed with the shiny disk called a paten as Father Grimm placed the hosts directly on their tongues in the old manner.

A ground tool is one that was chipped to rough shape in the old manner and then rubbed on or with a coarse abrasive rock to remove the chip scars either from the entire surface or around the working edge.

No sooner have old manners broken down than new ones have to be constituted.

The form grew up in England during the First World War, a time, we know, when old manners were being discarded, to the grief of many.

It was "the most deliciously pert comedy of old manners," wrote Bosley Crowther, "the most crisp and crackling satire in costume that we in this corner can remember ever having seen on the screen".

They could not, and instead, the pitch-line spat between Alan Pardew, the Newcastle manager, and the referee's assistant, Stuart Burt, was the obvious starting point for a new season, old manners and often breathless action.

Old manners of getting in shape seem to us today as antiquated and inefficient as using Indian clubs and medicine balls.