His manners nay be faulted, but his timing was less off than many might have hoped.

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Gregory is a fine archer, a fine horseman, a shining star in the tilt yard, and his manners cannot be faulted.

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You'll need to pay attention to his choice of restaurant, his manners and how much eye contact he makes--especially if there's a television set on the wall with a game on.

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Maybe it was his old-fashioned manners -- his unfailing courtesy and warmth.

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Raymond Manners had his Medtronic ICD replaced in March after 18 months, then filed a complaint charging negligence, misrepresentation of risk and breach of warranty.

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In his mid-teens, he had the tastes and manners of a teen-ager from an earlier era.

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In Carthage, Texas, in 1996, Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), a young man with beautiful manners, works as an assistant funeral director and brings consolation and light to his small town.

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An intelligent and rather overcivilized caper movie, set in Montreal, which features three generations of great male actors: Marlon Brando (sounding like his long-ago nemesis Truman Capote) as an upper-class aesthete and fence with exquisite manners, Robert De Niro as a saturnine jazz-club owner and safecracker who never takes risks, and Edward Norton as a brilliant but willful young con man and criminal.

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Home is no less fraught: Uxbal is an adoring, manners-correcting father to Ana (Hanaa Bouchaib) and Mateo (Guillermo Estrella), but his estranged wife, Marambra (Maricel Alvarez), is a ruin, jagged with drink, who cannot be trusted with the kids.

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