To his adversaries, Mr. Hall's rough-and-ready manner was a cynical pose that concealed a dedicated apparatchik.
Although Austin has grown up very wealthy, he has the same affable, rough-and-ready manner as his father.
It's more in the style, one customer said, of the places that surround Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market — serving superlative fish in a rough-and-ready manner.
My new sister-in-law might prefer her bridesmaids showing up in a conventional camera-ready manner.
It was reminiscent of the kind of tension in the pub when two drunks start squaring up to the each other, at first in a playful manner, ready to have a go.
Ideally, the sample size should have been larger and all the guidelines should have been examined in this manner, ready for our main study.
He's a stickler for standards, but his easy manner and ready laugh temper any tendency towards stiffness or earnestness.
He is tall and bulky, with the broad, ready smile and easy manner of a practised populist.
There were times when this arrogant manner seemed ready to dismiss not just most of his work, but anyone who took it seriously.
What his decision will do is deprive the paddock of a man whose ready smile and engaging manner made him easy to like.
