mannered

• “... and I suddenly realized that calling a singer "mannered" is just a way of concealing a certain laziness of opinion.”

  Manners of speaking

• “He was well mannered, that is to say well learned and induced in the sacrifices and works of the temple, as it appeareth in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end.”

  The Golden Legend, vol. 6

• “My hunch is that the actor has drifted into a kind of mannered inwardness, either to suggest the otherworldly nature of Prospero or because he has simply become bored with the role […] But almost everything about this Tempest is disappointing.”

  The Guardian: What to say about ... Sam Mendes's Bridge Project

• “It likes to present itself as quite 'mannered' in its approach to poetry but it often becomes a forum for the crudest vocalisations within that, and really because of it, as if shining the poetic silverware also meant locking it off from the thieving maids.”

  Bedtime Reading

• “Meanwhile, living in Cambridge and knowing a very large number of Unitarian Universalists and various lefty folks, I can attest that not every liberal is "mannered," "self-critical," or "pensive.”

  Philocrites: Beware 'Old Testament' comparisons.

• “Perhaps the first of the "mannered" fantasies, Sorcery & Cecilia owes much to Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen and the regency romance.”

  A Sunday Morning "Catch-Up" Review: Journey To Fusang

• “Not that he particularly disliked the color red, but in addition to the heat it seemed to amplify, its multiple variations had a way of sanctifying the kind of mannered hostility they hoped to leave behind.”

  Kingdoms of Light

• “His first novel displayed a kind of mannered sedateness reminiscent of Ivy Compton-Burnett's; since then, his natural precision and astringency have been tempered by a strain of informality, which often appears in the garrulous speech of underlings, home helpers, shopgirls, and the like.”

  Thin Ice

• “There was ever a kind of mannered deliberation in his bearing -- a part of his dramatic temper, and because his father had taught him dignity where there were no social functions for its use.”

  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

• “He would also have seen that Iberville was smoking with deliberation, and drinking with a kind of mannered coolness.”

  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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