mannerism

Example Sentences

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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

That coyness persists through the second half, with a series of suspended conversations and delayed reckonings that strain for honesty, only to bog down in the familiar language of art-house mannerism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

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

He was able to do it with such a stoic mannerism.

From New York Times • May 14, 2021

Jethro had picked up a mannerism from his mother.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt