manners

A diplomat by nature and possessed of old-fashioned manners, he struggled as a party leader and his performances in the bear pit of Prime Minister's Questions were seen by many as ineffectual.

Those three words are repeated again and again by parents trying to teach their young sons and daughters good manners, whether it’s at the dinner table, the amusement park or the ice cream shop.

“Eureka Day” takes its name from the fictional private elementary school in Berkeley that is the setting for what is both a satire of anti-vaccine culture and a comedy of woke manners.

“Why do you feel, as a man, you get to ask me those types of questions? Act like you have some manners. And your mama taught you, respect women.”

“It Was Just an Accident” has revealed more to me in thinking about it, especially about the precarity of everyday manners.