"manner" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Nathan jingled the keys in a self-conscious manner and I knew that something was coming that had a bearing on the conversation and that should have been mentioned earlier.
- "Because," she said very softly, in a self-conscious manner, "I wouldn't have had the nerve to ask about extending the stay just so I could spend more time with Nik."
- Then he took to giggling in a shy, self-conscious manner.
- Regarding law, in Anthropology's characteristically self-conscious manner, the comparative analysis inherent to Legal Anthropology has been speculated upon and most famously debated by Paul Bohannan and Max Gluckman.
- Miss Germer had an elfin charm, but displayed it in a slightly self-conscious manner.
- Pilati is tall and ginger-haired, with a dandy's outmoded elegance and a charming, if self-conscious, manner that masks sudden changes in mood.
- Owen flicked his hand in a self-conscious manner.
- Every now and then an actor is employed to speak Wilde's more familiar lines in a self-conscious manner that would certainly not have pleased the author.
- Eric Partridge suggests that it is coined from dud an 'article of clothing' altered to incorporate attitude with reference to the dude's self-conscious manner or pose.
- On a recent afternoon at Harvard, he spoke with the same quiet North Carolina drawl, reflected on life with the same understated humor and even moved with the same self-conscious manner.
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