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manner and acknowledging
He demonstrated a preference for the manner in which the plot of Babylon 5 had been devised, while acknowledging how the Deep Space Nine writers had developed a continuing plotline: "... it is rare for a series creator to envision how the series will develop over time.
" Others have proposed simply acknowledging the community's ad hoc status as " some kind of social group whose speech characteristics are of interest and can be described in a coherent manner ".
Richard Holt, in The Critical Review, while acknowledging some interest in the novel, complained that the plot is disjointed and the characters change by leaps and bounds, " in the manner of kangaroos "( Chapman 1999, p. 29 ).
The Estate is now owned by the Applecross Trust, a registered Scottish charity with the declared aim of preserving " the special character of the Applecross peninsula in a responsible and progressive manner whilst acknowledging its wilderness heritage and its importance as an area of outstanding natural beauty ".

manner and Dutch
" The New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) translates this verse in the latter manner, and translations in other languages such as the Dutch Statenvertaling translate it likewise: " When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans ; and you, for your part read my letter ( that is coming ) from Laodicea.
Called " factories " ( because the " factor ," i. e., a person acting as a mercantile agent did business from there ), these posts operated in the manner of the Dutch fur trading operations in New Netherland.
At the end of December 1585 Leicester was received in the Netherlands, according to one correspondent, in the manner of a second Charles V ; a Dutch town official already noted in his minute-book that the Earl was going to have " absolute power and authority ".
Before 1881, when Charles Daniel Dance wrote his Chapters From a Guianese Log-book, he noticed, The children all talked a Dutch patois besides the Arawak Indian tongue ; and with a Dutch teacher to instruct them, it is not difficult to conceive the manner in which they read their English lessons.
Her down to earth manner endeared her to her people so much that a majority of the Dutch people would soon want Queen Wilhelmina to abdicate in favour of her daughter.
They attempted to " borrow " the mercenary Scotch Brigade of the Dutch States Army for use in the Americas, in a similar manner to the Hessian and Brunswicker contingents they hired and deployed.
The suspense drama Tower of Terror, released in late December 1941 was styled in the manner of a horror film, and it starred Wilfrid Lawson as a crazed Dutch lighthouse keeper in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, while the second-billed Rennie and third-billed Movita had the romantic leads.
The Dutch called a vessel rigged in this manner a bezaan jacht.
In a similar manner, the Protestant Dutch resistance against Spanish rule in the 16th century used the slogan Liever Turks dan Paaps ( better a Turk than a Papist ).
Among other Italian still life, Bernardo Strozzi ’ s The Cook is a " kitchen scene " in the Dutch manner, which is both a detailed portrait of a cook and the game birds she is preparing.
In the manner of Frans Post, Everdingen took advantage of this mishap by making sketches of the Norwegian landscape, which would have seemed very exotic to his Dutch countrymen.
It is the only Dutch culinary region which developed a haute cuisine and it forms the base of most traditional Dutch restaurants including typical main courses served such as Biefstuk, Varkenshaas, Ossenhaas, these are premium cuts of meat, generally pork or beef, accompanied by a wide variety of sauces and potatoes which have been double fried in the traditional Dutch ( or Belgian ) manner.
The Dutch called a vessel rigged in this manner a bezaan jacht.
In his pictures the influence of Crome is plainly perceptible, and there is evidence also of his study of the Dutch landscape-painters ; but he had little of Crome's largeness and power and his works charm rather by their gentle truth and quietness of manner than by their robustness of view or by their decisiveness of execution.
Bourdon's facility rendered him adept at portraiture, whether in a dashing Rubens manner or in intimate, sympathetic bust-length or half-length portraits isolated against plain backgrounds that set a formula for middle-class portraiture for the rest of the century, landscapes in the manner of Gaspar Dughet or cappricci of ruins, mythological " history painting " like other members of Poussin's circle or the genre subjects of the Dutch Bamboccianti who were working in Rome.
Danwon is known as the first Korean painter to extensively portray Korean daily life, in a manner analogous to the Dutch Masters.
The wretched and the poor were featured in an almost Dutch manner in the paintings by the three Le Nain brothers.
He was one of the first Dutch painters who introduced a fresh and clear manner of painting landscapes in the style of Claude Lorraine, and his example was speedily followed by other artists.
In 1923 and 1939 some Dutch authors suggested that Camper foreshadowed Goethe's famous idea of " type " — a common structural pattern in some manner

manner and lordship
Wimsey does not object, but Bunter strongly does: " If I may state my own preference, sir, it would be to wait upon you and his lordship in the usual manner ".
After their stewardship, the lordship descended in a relatively uncertain manner to the Curzons of Kedleston Hall until finally coming under the lordship of the Hunloke Family.

manner and was
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.
I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.
The door was answered by a slender man in his sixties -- straight-backed, somewhat clerical in manner, wearing rimless glasses.
He was smooth and civil spoken but it seemed to me there was something tough under his selfeffacing manner.
Twenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf widow, and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement.
This conjugate was passed twice through Dowex-2-chloride and treated with various tissue powders in the same manner as described for the indirect method.
This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.
For exactly one week, she was able to continue in this manner.
He was dressed in a manner Esquire might suggest for the outdoor man's country weekend.
The whole thing, his manner conveyed, was so far outside the normal routine of Hohlbein and Garth that it practically demanded being swept under the rug.
The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.
Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.
She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.
Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.
Another weakness -- far more irritating than his manner of speaking, which he made only token effort to change -- was his devotion to that old horse of Tolley's.
Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

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