manners

Though the outcomes encoded here are colored by midcentury manners, they are surprisingly daring and averse to sedate moralism.

Talking to a human friend required me to switch gears and put on company manners…by which I mean, any manners whatsoever.

For Sigmund Freud religion is a personal projection in which primitive impulses crack the crust of civilized manners.

“He talks to them about everything. He talks to them about their manners and everything baseball. He just goes above and beyond.”

The executor’s actions are bad manners, at best, or a willful abandoning of her fiduciary duty, at worst.