Example sentences for: mannerisms

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

  • "A lazy, ham actor shows up to explain to poor Ed the secrets of Lee Strasberg's "Method"--how to be "private in public"--just like on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio !" It turned out that this wasn't Dennis Hopper, however, but Dennis Hopper in the role of Ed's long-lost father--and few things can dispel the illusion of watching real people than a hack actor feigning naturalness via mannerisms recycled from James Dean and Montgomery Clift.

  • Ex-pintos are often identifiable by their mannerisms, gestures, language, haircuts, and dress.

  • Mexicans who have spent time in the United States and have acquired the mannerisms, values, and the English language may be considered pochos because they’ve become agringados (anglicized).

  • What isn't by design is the mass of neurotic actressy mannerisms, which function like layer upon layer of wax buildup.

  • Hannah drives people away with her querulous expressions, her verbal parries, her cock-of-the-walk mannerisms.


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