mannerism

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So much attention is on their similarities in their swings and other mannerism, but the needle and the trash talking is not to be overlooked.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2023

He’d become a meticulous student of all things Elvis to prepare for the role, poring over archival performances and interviews to get the King’s every move and mannerism down pat.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2022

The flamboyant late Renaissance style of art known in English as mannerism has gone out of fashion more than once.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

More than 850 people worked on recreating Abba "in their prime" using motion capture technology to scan "every mannerism and every motion" of the musicians, who are now in their 70s, as they performed.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2021

After that I didn’t pay any more attention to this mannerism of his, because I was absorbed by the feeling that the sun was doing me a lot of good.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus