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Example sentences for: mannerisms

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He has the mannerisms of a bully, someone who abuses the weak and is cowed by the strong.
I was actually working there, but psychiatric aides pick up so many mannerisms of the patients that it's hard to tell the difference after a while.
"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.
In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.
Gone are her neurotic mannerisms.