The trouble with such views, usually based on anecdote rather than evidence, is that with manners and behaviour they can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
On one side, 64-year-old Boies, an Illinois native with disarming manners and a boyish smile--and a talent for neutralizing very powerful adversaries.
Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, this Merchant-Ivory production strains so hard to portray dignified restraint that it almost seizes up with good manners.
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.
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.
They brought with them the manners and mores of the old American south: top hats and tail-coats, despite the dizzying humidity, and Christianity.
Look around your own office and see the love and care lavished on these rectangle-faced machines with their aggressive manners and their secret desire to steal your job.
The plays reveal an intimate familiarity with court life and manners that Shakespeare, as a commoner, could not have obtained simply by conversations at the Mermaid Tavern.
The grand feudals, with their estates, impeccable manners and bootlegged Scotch, see their fortunes changing.
People endure the media invasion with good humor and good manners.
At one point a railway station, at another a race course, the theatre becomes an all-encompassing world intended to reflect the characters' obsession with etiquette, decorum and manners.
Enabling one while gagging the other is keeping manners from catching up with technology.
The sentimental strain is both unconvincing and ungrounded, but in the all-too-rare moments when Murphy, who invests with psychodrama the role of a misfit learning manners, lets himself go the movie comes brilliantly to life.
Basically, the old Liberty was very capable off-road, but it did not keep up with consumer demands, which now value refined road manners, good fuel economy and lots of interior space more than the ability to hop boulders and ford streams.
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They were serving themselves, using the tongs, learning manners, having conversation -- not with real sentences or anything -- (laughter) -- but all the expression that goes along with sitting at the table and having a glass of milk and passing the food.
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The result is a deeply serene, seriously stable luxury car, with good sporting reflexes on country roads and excellent interstate manners.
Akerman conjures a timeless literary setting by blending modernity, with its remote controls, cordless phones, and sleek cars, with anachronistic luxuries, styles, and, above all, manners.
You can actually get away with a lot of weirdness in abstract ideas, if you are ordinary enough in manners and style.
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