easy manners

"What they object to in us is our free and easy manners."

For all his easy manners, he was Academy through and through.

A simple costume and easy manners may win you friends in quiet conversation, but not when large forces are assembled.

Several sketches of his wife show remarkable coloristic free and easy manners.

Only a Mohock from the upper class could have combined easy manners with such ruthless action.

His easy manners and total unflappability create a sunny atmosphere that has made the restaurant a great favorite with local people.

She was beginning already, after her remarkable experience of him, to wonder at his easy manners and his light way of talking.

His companion's easy manners only increased his usual stiffness.

Behind Al Hardy's smiles and perpetual calm and easy manners was the ultimate threat.

His sparkling intellect, easy manners and keen eye for an attractive woman, regardless of age (his or hers), made him welcome everywhere.

Max was a working-class kid, embarrassed by his parents: the Graces had the free and easy manners of the wealthier and grander.

Progressives credited with Liberal ideas and in addition, his free and easy manners endeared him to the so-called lazzaroni, the lower classes of Neapolitan society.

A cheerful, energetic man, with pleasant, easy manners, Sir Walter Pole was everything that Mr Norrell was not.

Through playing bridge with Edward and his mistress Alice Keppel, Franklin elevates himself greatly in the king's estimation through his easy manners.

Mary Shelley hoped that the easy manners of the other young men would rub off on her awkward son, but instead they became petty and jealous of each other.

She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.

Lunch had been at the Spectator where the easy manners and bright efforts of the "hacks", as they called themselves, had entranced her as much as her directness and beauty had caused middle-aged swooning among them.

"It was a pleasure I had long hoped for," he says, "and I was very much pleased with her cheerful and easy manners--the sort of person one knows in a few minutes as well as many in many years."

Being a man of prepossessing appearance and easy manners, having a strong, logical mind and being a fluent and concise speaker, he early in his career took a position in the front rank of Ohio's Pickaway County bar.

It was too easy to forget, sometimes, with the easy manners and open nature the Emperor displayed, Zakarios thought, sympathizing with his aide, how Valerius had brought his uncle to the throne and how he had kept it, himself.

Mr. Weller's easy manners and conversational powers had such irresistible influence with his new friends, that before the dinner was half over, they were on a footing of perfect intimacy, and in possession of a full account of the delinquency of Job Trotter. '

Hilarius, shrinking, aghast, his ears scourged with rough oaths and rude jests, his eyes offended by the easy manners round him, his cheek hot from the late salute, took refuge under a low archway, and waited with anxious heart until the minstrel should have done with the crowd.

- Men look for beauty and the simper of good-humoured docility: women are captivated by easy manners; a gentleman-like man seldom fails to please them, and their thirsty ears eagerly drink the insinuating nothings of politeness, whilst they turn from the unintelligible sounds of the charmer- reason, charm he never so wisely.

No wonder that the ginger-headed man with the silky voice and the free and easy manners was now looked upon with deep interest upon the banks of the great South American river, though the feelings he inspired were naturally mixed, since the gratitude of the natives was equaled by the resentment of those who desired to exploit them.

He went on a publicity tour of the United States in late 1897, during which he impressed a New York Times reporter as being somewhat like Rudolf Rassendyll: a well-dressed Englishman with a hearty laugh, a soldierly attitude, a dry sense of humour, "quiet, easy manners" and an air of shrewdness.