mannerly

"It seems my . . . garden is in bloom," she confesses to Agatha, who is confused at first, before picking up Violet's code: the mannerly widow is feeling unexpectedly merry again.

Belorusets also captures the mannerly, unflappable side of Kyiv.

Though they are classified as novelists of manners, neither Austen nor Ali traffics in anything mannerly; rather, they use the mores of an era to show how tangled up we get in flimsy constructions that it becomes impossible to distinguish from lies.

But their contrasting styles were on vivid display, with the more mannerly Youngkin making jabs at Democrats while Cruz fired bombs.

Taking a mannerly and unquestioning approach to Horton Foote’s well-worn 1953 work, with a hint of costume-drama deliberateness, director Michael Wilson’s production seems happy to operate by an old-fashioned playbook.