1.   Her informal manner seemed wholly inappropriate to the occasion.

2.   On the contrary, his manner seemed genial and...

3.   At times, his manner has seemed vacant, visitors say.

4.   At times, the good manners seemed forced.

5.   But his button-down manner seemed more suited to a boardroom than to the sleeves-up environment of a high-pressure operations center.

6.   But its heavily formal and scripted manner seemed strikingly out of step with the far-reaching economic and social change sweeping across China.

7.   Goode, a native Virginian whose courtly good manners seem of another era, stood stunned for a half-second.

8.   Her homespun manner seems of a piece with her Southwestern background.

9.   In the book, manners seemed to be entirely in the service of self-interest and self-aggrandizement rather than of any broader civic good.

10.   No, after an hour in her company, her disjointed manner just seemed to be the essence of Parker Posey.