Sentence examples for affected mannerisms from inspiring English sources

Elaborate metaphors, affected mannerisms, and foppish dress led to his being shouted down.

The whole film is an exercise in stunt casting by using actors pre-loaded with kitschy cultural impact like the Rock, Mandy Moore, and Justin Timberlake, Kelly demonstrates how the affected mannerisms of celebrity culture have become embedded within the texture of everyday American life (a tactic Harmony Korine would steal to brilliant effect in Spring Breakers seven years later).

Nor would we have been spared the relentless jumps, turns and affected mannerisms of the jester (a sloppy Andrei Ivanov) — another unhappy Soviet addition to the ballet.

Post 1700, homosexual behavior was increasingly constructed as a depraved activity associated with a minority of effeminate men; by the 1720s extreme bodily gestures, affected mannerisms in speech and contrived magnificence in costume had come to indicate sexual preference (and perversion).

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.

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.

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?

Similar mannerisms affected Vanessa Zahorian (in the Sunday matinee) and Lorena Feijoo (Sunday evening) when Giselle rises from the dead.

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.

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.