demonstrativeness

For all his bodily demonstrativeness, he could be dealing a hand of bridge.

He put out a hand with uncharacteristic demonstrativeness and touched her cheek.

Phil, slightly irked at his lack of demonstrativeness, spoke to him.

Romans, known for demonstrativeness, sometimes serve as early warning alarms in public places.

He was too happy when she volunteered to kiss him to mind by what means he got her demonstrativeness.

Mildred had no demonstrativeness, and she found the manifestations of affection ridiculous.

It was the physical demonstrativeness that took me, I think, the warmth - and the gentleness."

Lithuanians are like that: their weapon against the Kremlin is stolidness, not demonstrativeness.

"He'll turn up, have no fear," Cato said, leaning to clasp the Admiral's brawny arm with unusual demonstrativeness.

All religious demonstrativeness and ceremony is basically orgiastic, as one may gather from the veiled or open symbolism of nearly every typical rite of every race.

He was a sympathetic presence on the stage, too, but it would do him no harm to rethink the degree of agitation and physical demonstrativeness he brought to the part.

But he said that at his meetings with Mr. Anderson, who is known for his reticence, there is usually "not a whole lot of emoting or even demonstrativeness."

And some have assumed that Beethoven must have scorned it, too, wresting greatness from mundanity as much out of demonstrativeness and sheer orneriness as anything else.

On the one hand, she felt lucky to have gotten away without an emotional scene, while at the same time, she was irritated with herself about yet another episode of her embarrassing demonstrativeness.

For a moment he was panicky at the thought that some day she might grow tired of his silences, his usual lack of demonstrativeness, his long absences-"Mary-" "Yes, Jim?"

Her mother, Lynne Cheney, cried and said, "Your life will be so hard"; her father, not given to demonstrativeness, assured Mary he loved her and just wanted her to be happy.

In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtedly very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness.

The music ends with theme and variations: first Schumanesque lyricism, a busy fugue and then some high-energy, off-kilter demonstrativeness before the piece trails off into the low-key gentility that seems to mark its true personality.

Alan laughed at the impatient jig they danced as they waited for he and Brad to catch up with them, and Brad put an arm around his shoulder and kissed him on the cheek in a moment of uncharacteristic demonstrativeness.

Mr. Harper's quicksilver adroitness keeps Theodorus's search for love quizzical; his demonstrativeness prevents the proceedings from becoming too sticky, though being forced to deliver lines like "Even a soul-touching love could not last" are mushily soulful.