To get a better sense of his character, he spent time with several aldermen, even accompanying them as they met with constituents and attended City Council meetings, where he studied their demeanor and body language.
Study his demeanor for micro-expressions and disconnects indicating otherwise, and you're likely to come away wanting.
Yeghiazaryan said he studied Lugo's demeanor seconds before Lugo's shot.
Mr. Talen then related the readings to the tactics and values of his own comedian-heroes (chiefly Lenny Bruce and Andy Kaufman), began studying the demeanors of preachers in New York's Pentecostal churches, and found himself with an act whose power no one could have anticipated.
His associates say that this alteration of demeanor is not studied but, rather, stems from a profound, almost religious, respect for the law.
Anything that might have seemed odd in Barack Obama's demeanor, from his studied unflappability to his sometimes unappealing coldness, seems instead a miracle of normality and adjustment after the story recounted here.
She didn't have the ubiquitous Hello Kitty fashion sense that is so disturbingly popular in Beijing and took the dour student-studying-alone demeanor to such an extreme she was transformed into an anomaly.
In late 1977, he won a place in the prestigious Peking University, where he studied law before moving on to economics, and he retains a bookish demeanor and a confident grasp of English.
In addition to her enchanting way with words and delightful demeanor, Bezirdzhyan enjoys the art of dance, which she has studied and performed since the age of 5.
Study the poses and demeanor of cats, even just a household pet.
