101.   I am a polite person and my manners are fine.

102.   I think manners are important.

103.   Impeccable manners were a must in a household where nine people crowded the dinner table.

104.   If good manners are at one end of a continuum, empathy and charity and social conscience are at the other.

105.   In a phone conversation last week, she proved again her modest manner was no act.

106.   In a recent interview, she said she shared the view that manners are about power.

107.   In his first statewide race, his manner is stiff, his platform vague and his speeches forgettable.

108.   In fact, their bumbling manner was part of their appeal.

109.   In such an environment, good manners are for losers.

110.   In the ensuing years there has been all manner of agitation and protest, advocacy and polemical writing, art-historical excavation and self-assertiveness by groups and individuals.