passages … so mannered as to be unintelligible—R. G. G. Price
Examples of mannered in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebBut Kinds of Kindness is too parched and mannered to be either disturbing or funny or both—and not even its capable cast can rescue it.—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 17 May 2024 Chastain’s and Hathaway’s performances haven’t the precisely mannered intensity of Veerle Baetens and Anne Coesens in the original, but there’s interest in the duality of their takes on the Betty Draper ideal, driven to derangement by nerves and poise respectively.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024 There are bright spots: Bill Camp introduces a welcome note of surly realism even at the height of the film’s most mannered lunacy, and a third-act cameo arrives just in time to almost save the day.—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024 And Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who — judging by the overly meticulous mise-en-scène, the highly mannered methods of his storytelling, the obsessive curating and compulsive footnoting of onscreen bric-a-brac — seems to love the structure that comes with obeying unwritten rules.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for mannered
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