Her vocals remain the very definition of an acquired taste: the points when she eschews the mannerisms in favour of something more straightforward – a cracked, mournful, rather Neil Youngish voice on The Things I Say – underline just how many mannerisms there are elsewhere.
Practice, practice, practice - Yoda has many mannerisms that should be studied, and botching up a Yoda act will ruin it.
JOY BAKER DAVIS Greensboro, N.C., Nov. 2, 2011 To the Editor: The rules of courtesy can be complicated, especially when so many courteous mannerisms are regionally and culturally bound.
Although Mr. Crawford's voice is too quirky for opera, he flaunts many operatic mannerisms, from broad gesticulation to enunciation so exaggeratedly precise that it treats lyrics like phonics lessons inspired by pseudo-sacred texts.
Director Marc Forster keeps the pair within bounds, although Thompson's role demands many cutesy mannerisms denoting distracted writerliness and droll detachment, of which she makes a fair-sized meal.
Another prominent fund-raiser based in New York also recently had lunch with Mr. Hsu, in which she recalled that he arrived "incredibly" late and had so many nervous mannerisms that it became hard to follow what he was saying.
Poor Jude Law does his best as Joe, the cyber-good-time-boy, made up to look shiny and weird, but he's saddled with many irritating mannerisms, like tweaking his head to create his own soundtrack of romantic music, issuing, presumably, from some hidden orifice.
Phraates' successor Orodes III of Parthia lasted just two years on the throne, and was followed by Vonones I of Parthia, who had adopted many Roman mannerisms during time in Rome.
Ms. Streisand has also pared away many of her mannerisms.
Freeman, who has grace and gravitas in spades, gets many of the mannerisms and expressions right, particularly Mandela's posture and gait.
Along the way, it captures Fili's state of mind with some sensitivity and with too many video-inspired mannerisms, like a pounding soundtrack, abrupt sepia images or a camera that loves to tilt.
