mannered

IPA: mˈænɝd

Examples of "mannered" in Sentences

... and I suddenly realized that calling a singer "mannered" is just a way of concealing a certain laziness of opinion.
Perhaps the first of the "mannered" fantasies, Sorcery & Cecilia owes much to Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen and the regency romance.
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.
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."
"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."
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.