in a manner of speaking

Examples of manner

manner
Collectively, these results reveal personality to be comparable to demographics and to fundamental political predispositions in two important manners.
By enacting the subservient role with the required deferential manners they could to an extent assert their interests.
More than an indication of age, it carries a positive appreciation of the person : his\\her wisdom, kindness, refined manners and political importance.
Their manners and habits differ as much as their climates and productions; and their sentiments are by no means coincident.
The newspaper had the power to reform public morality, manners and customs, and like a mirror, enabled people to see themselves more clearly.
She simply adopts for herself the manners of the most characteristic form of astrological communication, namely the pamphlet war.
One's attention may be caught by a musician's appearance or odd manners, by narrative sequences of images projected along with the music, and the like.
He found the grandchildren too noisy, and told me time and again that they didn't have good manners.
The manners and habits of patronage, therefore, were embedded in the manners and habits of society.
Here blasphemy becomes the development and reformation of manners which occurs at the behest of secular authorities and processes of middling sort class formation.
I argue - if a community is adjudged desirable by its composition, it should be allowed to express its creativity in various manners, including fragmentation.
Thirdly, for more natural operation process, we apply multi man-virtual robot interactive manners, including voice control.
The gathering and analysis of the data were constrained in two important manners.
The volume contains nine essays, by nine different authors, organized under five headings : family, consumers, manners and rituals, senses, and sexuality.
The hierarchy of power is evident not only in dress codes and manners of the inhabitants, but in the very spaces permitted to them.
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Collocations withmanner

manner

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aggressive manner
Drawing heavily from his own work, the author addresses the context in an important and aggressivemanner.
arbitrary manner
That is a rather arbitrary manner to deal with vagueness.
businesslike manner
It now needs to be marketed in a professional and businesslikemanner, targeting potential new audiences.
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