The gesture was in keeping with her earthy and sometimes profane manner.

Maestri's lack of education and earthy, unpolished manner of speaking made him a frequent subject of humor and ridicule.

Besides, Egwene liked her earthy outspoken manner.

For by then Mr. Shaw, in his inimitably earthy manner, had presided over a weeklong humanistic exercise of the highest order.

It is similar to dolly kei in that the aim is to create a doll-like appearance, but in a more casual, earthy manner.

Under the ministrations of Ms. Casas, the eight-member cast performs in a natural, earthy manner.

The matron supervising the servants aped him and whined, "When your services are required . . ." Then she shifted to a far earthier manner.

The ballet concludes in an earthy manner with an episode in which the choreography frequently becomes as robust as a folk dance.

Each has come to spend the rest of his or her years in a low-impact, earthy manner, living as many did in the 1960s.

Yet behind the earthy manner - the Yiddish word for it is haimish - lay immense sophistication about life, letters and show business.