As a law professor Mr. Cox seemed to make a studied effort to run his life with courtly Yankee good humor.
In all four trials, the court records show, defense lawyers made a studied effort to depict Eriksson as less than lion-hearted, presumably on the theory that proving him to be craven would automatically exonerate their clients.
According to Pacheco, El Greco's perturbed, violent and at times seemingly careless-in-execution art was due to a studied effort to acquire a freedom of style.
Rather, they have been a prudent extension of widespread and much-studied efforts to counter the decline of low wages by raising the wage floor.
The designer is older, and dressed with studied casualness; the models look like models.
Becky's camán-wielding cohort lounged on a nearby wall, observing with studied wrath.
Waitresses and busboys came and went nearly invisibly, refilling teapots and clearing dishes with studied efficiency.
While their Democratic colleagues interrupted the president with applause more than 100 times, at times extravagantly, Republicans largely watched the 77-minute speech with studied detachment.
This had less to do with studied convictions about the issues than with the political salience, actual and perceived, of certain Jewish and evangelical constituencies.
It was largely based on intrinsic texture and pattern but with interspersed bands and patches of naturalistic ornament, applied with studied discipline.
Alexander Nix, a younger, blonder Hugh – an old Etonian with studied manners and Merchant-Ivory hair – had not been accused of murder and it was not a trial, officially.
