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Example sentences for: mannered

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(Lish is an easy target, since he's enormously controversial for a number of reasons: his mannered writing style, for one, and his interventionist editorial style, for another, which made other authors' careers and also earned their enmity.)
Yet it's also a critique of American Minimalism, which at a certain point became too elegant and mannered for its own good.
' " Most everyone agrees, calling the film formulaic and the gore overly mannered.
well, being mannered.
a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)