Taking over last night, Mr. Sinacori presided with a serious demeanor, although he was obviously feeling his way.
True, Napoleon is nominally present, presiding with a stern semi-smile over the proceedings from within a copy of a Jacques-Louis David portrait.
One is Red E Cafe (1006 North Killingsworth Street; theredecafe.com), a North Portland institution where the owner, Keith Miller, presides with a guru-like benevolence.
Presiding with a genial but firm manner, he nudges the lawyers when their questioning of witnesses seems repetitive, saying, "Let's go".
Throughout the day, Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan, presided with a regal air, a demeanor accentuated by his maroon velvet sport coat.
Judge Nickerson presided with a firm hand over the Louima cases, in which several of the indicted police officers insisted they were being made scapegoats.
Surrounded by lawyers with outsize personalities, and confronted with an accuser whose testimony involved screaming and showing off tattoos, Justice Marrus has presided with a steady hand, unruffled by the drama or the public attention.
Outside the beer hall in Hanoi, under a tree festooned with Christmas lights, a stout elderly woman in billowy striped pants presided, with a cleaver, over a little stand that served roasted dog.
There was a gleefulness in Vidal's acerbic denunciations of the US: significantly, the New York Times's obituarist yesterday charged that he "presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilisation".
I am nineteen, and when I arrive home, in roughly twenty-four hours, there will be a pair of detectives in my bedroom, rifling through my childhood desk, my mother presiding with a bloodless terrified look that will morph into towering maternal rage, when I, clearly unchaste and impenitent, walk in with my lame excuse.
