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mannerism

noun as in peculiarity of how someone behaves, acts

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It’s standardizing uniforms, cafe decor and worker mannerisms.

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He studied their individual tics and mannerisms to find the things that people across the world might only note subconsciously, and wove them into his caricatures.

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A lot of what he did and does, I’ve stolen those moves, and so we get to do scenes where he’s playing my dad and our mannerisms are so uncomfortably similar.

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There are nods to traditional Korean folk painting, a Korean guide to the afterlife, the progenitors of K-pop and everyday mannerisms.

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“His mannerisms and his speech patterns, exactly. He’s double slick.”

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