Sentence examples for unpleasant manner from inspiring English sources

A real mystery: why they prefer Houseman, with his petulant, arrogant, unpleasant manner….

His entire Administration has dealt with Karzai "repeatedly and publicly in an abusive, unpleasant manner".

Where our Iraqi counterparts have some complaint, they can take it up in a calmer and less unpleasant manner.

By Hendrik Hertzberg August 12, 2008 I wish Obama had put out a statement saying something like this: My friend and adviser Samantha Power made a serious mistake when she shot her mouth off in such an unpleasant manner.

After all, the majority of films lurk in the lower categories, and what tends to exercise parents is the constant, contagious fracas of violence to which their children submit — the unpleasant manner, say, in which the sky-high exploits of "Superman Returns" sink down to the grimy sight of Kevin Spacey kicking our hero in the kidneys.

I'm sure you've seen those old, scary movies where the director lit the subject from below, casting shadows over the villain's face in the most unpleasant manner.

Opinions differed as to how well he performed, but there was widespread agreement that he was brought down by the "unpleasant and undiplomatic" manner in which he dealt with executives and others.

A baby-kidnapping and all manner of unpleasant shenanigans ensue.

At one extreme, he said, are researchers who argue that babies are highly resilient and recover from all manner of unpleasant experiences.

You know that time of night when you're lying in bed and you're beset by unpleasant thoughts, by all manner of regrets and doubts and self-abasement?

As Earman (1995, pp. 65-6) charactheizes the worry, nothing would seem to stop the singularity from "disgorging" any manner of unpleasant jetsam, from TVs showing Nixon's Checkers Speech to old lost socks, in a way completely undetermined by the state of spacetime in any region whatsoever, and in such a way as to render strictly indeterminable all regions in causal contact with what it spews out.