She may sound highly strung, but her demeanour is admirably grounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'] Reference

Your demeanour is written down as is whom you are hanging around with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Para-Dice Riders Charter Case Against Police Roadblocks] Reference

LADY DAINAGON is very small and refined, white, beautiful, and round, though in demeanour very lofty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan] Reference

From my observations, their natural demeanour is only to react to anything that polls badly or is in their own interests, so they must be sh! tting themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Thursday 9PM: Another Photo-Op For Bush] Reference

Akai Ringo is a short high school freshman girl with seemingly cute, angelic looks but a dark demeanour (her name is a Japanese wordplay on "apple" and "Red Riding Hood").    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

He has a dignity of demeanour, which is also very self-conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Happiness of Others] Reference

The gentleness and quietness of her demeanour were a refreshment to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference

"Her demeanour was a little bit quiet, which I put down to (her having) a cold.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

In the end the character is shown in the demeanour; and the demeanour is a consequence of the character and resembles the character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature] Reference

This restlessness goes beyond merely emphasising Nick's naturally sleazy demeanour, which is already a cross between Donald Plesence as.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

"Lemon is playing with the kind of demeanour of a quarterback who can lead a football team," Trestman said.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

However, as they drove off, Sorrenson's "demeanour" changed and he became angry and produced a 24cm hunting knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference

But, after concerns over his behaviour, police barred media from covering an out-of-sessions court hearing citing Chaouk's "demeanour".    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

There’s also a potent contrast between Clarke’s un-spun demeanour, which is — of course — a form of spin it itself, and Mandelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming to a screen near you, the battle of the returning big beasts] Reference

Not that you'd find this in the demeanour of DeLillo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear'] Reference

The demeanour of parent and child was in striking contrast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

And such a divine assurance ought to give me a kingly demeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

As he did so, a strange alteration took place in Mr Holt's demeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Whether he noticed anything peculiar in my demeanour, I could not tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Even Mr Rawlings, generally so sedate of demeanour, in contrast to Seth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

My companion had surprised me by a sudden change of demeanour, for which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

Her smiling demeanour was in stark contrast to the departure of her friend Andy Murray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Federer prepares to face giant killer Robin Soderling at US Open] Reference

Wide differences between Mr.G. and J. C.; none so marked as their demeanour throughout debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893] Reference

I guess I am involved by now, and my initial phlegmatic demeanour is unlikely to wash any more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passing Time] Reference

Opposite to me sat a Frenchman, of rather formal and grave demeanour, and dressed somewhat precisely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

The knowledge of this incontrovertible fact did not influence the demeanour of the shop-woman towards her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

When we recognized who was approaching, the change that came over the demeanour of the sergeant was astonishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

His demeanour was entirely without the suggestion of his being in any way aware that he was an object of suspicion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

He's a strange lad all right, with a spherical physique and a glazed, earnest demeanour that conceals his true motives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyrus] Reference

Maitland's calm demeanour, so resourceful in its serenity, caused all eyes to turn at length to him as if for explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

The joke, then, is that someone with a dumb-blonde, Tinseltown-on-legs demeanour can be this smart and catty about the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennifer Coolidge] Reference

The next day Mr. Weevil was at his post as usual, and closely as Paul watched him he could see nothing unusual in his demeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

Oscar, a fine tall active boy, with a grave quick demeanour, but the open brow and frank sweet smile won him the love of every one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

She was so young, so pale, so beautiful, so sad, and withal so exceeding gentle in her demeanour, that an artist who wished to portray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

It is his demeanour, above all, that can dictate the mood on the field, his performance which can uplift a team or send it to the depths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eoin Morgan makes careless Pakistan pay as England take control] Reference

In these circumstances reasonable to suppose attention of House would be centred on these contingencies, its demeanour attuned accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference