Examples of mannerism

• Is effeminacy a limp wrist, a set of facial mannerisms, a way of crossing one's legs, a certain posture?

• Each spirit has ascribed attributes or traits and mannerisms by which they are known and recognized.

• He wasn't full of mannerisms and little tricks of the trade.

• They wore extraordinarily showy garments and adopted distinctive mannerisms.

• Nevertheless, the effect is again compulsive, only this time compulsion surfaces in the shape of mannerism.

• The digital 'avant-garde' has degenerated into a banal mannerism, producing homogeneous results with little regard for cultural contexts all over the world.

• First they presented the audience with characters who had surrounded themselves with a shield of nervous and artificial physical and vocal mannerisms.

• He was instantly recognisable by his father's profile, uncannily, even by his posture, gestures and mannerisms, but especially by the diamond clarity of his voice.

• He revels in diva-personae, singling out the stigmatised divas for worship and adulation, lovingly cataloguing eccentricities, mannerisms and deformities.

• Australian authors wear down and wear out their readers by the repetition of horrors, instances of similar incidents, lists of details, or stylistic mannerisms.

• The uncertainty of this contemporary architectural climate is powerfully mirrored in the artistic language of mannerism.

• It is a language of gestures and mannerisms.

• This mannerism aims to create a visual effect and thus induce movement, 'draw people through and persuade them to linger (in the deepest spaces) rather than rushing through'.

• This rare song collection was unique in its authentic flavour of vocal interpretations, and the repertoire exhibited a large array of vocal mannerisms found in rural areas.

• They have become a mannerism.