Example sentences for: mannerism

How can you use “mannerism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • No less offensive, however, is the automatic presumption of quality in work that defines itself merely by its choice of subject matter and mannerism.

  • Some are also upset by the eroticism of Parmigianino in his strange but undeniably graceful Madonna with the Long Neck (1534) — just look at those elongated fingers — a masterpiece of the sophisticated and subsequently decadent Mannerism that followed the High Renaissance.

  • His distinctive dress, demeanor, mannerism, and language not only express his manhood but set him off culturally from the dominant society.

  • I work in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., (about 150 miles south of Chicago, 120 miles west of Indianapolis, home of the University of Illinois) and no professional programmer I know has this verbal mannerism.

  • The vigor and intellectual integrity of the High Renaissance had softened into the stylized sophistication of Mannerism, the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque.


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