After an interview process, which involves a role-playing component, applicants undergo a month of training, including crash courses on street drugs, and lessons on how to affect the mannerisms of an addict.
But the show, hosted by Michael Feinstein, asked Broadway and cabaret performers, some completely lacking a jazz connection, to affect jazz mannerisms in strained performances that illustrated their ignorance of the tradition they were unintentionally sabotaging.
Those in law enforcement are trained to "read" body language, affect, facial expressions, mannerisms, and ways of speaking, and to believe that they can trust their gut.
Is there is a culture in film and TV for there to be a token straight, who spouts straight cliches and affects straight mannerisms and has little else to do but be an amusing straight best friend for the lead gay characters to bounce off?
As he and his brothers expand their business — with the help of their frail young neighbor, Cricket (Dane DeHaan) — Jack develops a taste for flashy clothes and cars, affecting Cagneyesque mannerisms, even though he is not nearly as tough as Forrest or Howard.
Elaborate metaphors, affected mannerisms, and foppish dress led to his being shouted down.
Together with some help from the White Queen (Anne Hathaway, still affecting the stilted mannerisms that did her no favours in the first film), Alice journeys back in time to solve the riddle of what happened to the Mad Hatter's clan and, in turn, save her friend.
And it never became a mannerism, never a gimmick.
It might be dismissed as a mannerism (and in the healthful West perhaps frowned on).
To make matters worse, the minister had a mannerism which he did not like.
