"He was its master in the manner of a 19th century landowner.
His struggle to master the exotic manner clashes with his observation of the subject, and the picture falls apart — with an effect, for me, of affording lucky access to the kitchen of his genius.
And Masters was frustrated by the manner of their defeat in Birmingham.
They had transformed the master's manner of acid elegance, logical tightness, factual punctiliousness, and merciless laceration in debate into a sort of shallow Noël Coward style.
It revives the manner of masters active in the mid-19th century.
His five Van Dycks have also been reduced to one undisputed, with the others now requiring the epithets "studio of", "attributed to", "after", and "in the manner of" the master.
However, Kehinde Wiley, who has done giant portraits of contemporary figures (often from the hip-hop world) posed in the manner of old master portraits, paints Obama as a figure of great seriousness and directness, but seats him surrounded by a wall of green leaves (both behind him and underfoot – the leaves speak to a great vitality to make things bloom and a verdant richness.
Roger Rees is the Sheriff of Rottingham and he goes at his villainy in the best Master Thespian manner.
But there are directors who work in exquisite touches, who leave perceptible, hyperrefined brushstrokes on the screen — who are more Fragonard than Van Gogh — and the master of that manner is Ernst Lubitsch (whose art was justly celebrated as the "Lubitsch touch").
Then, in the manner of a Zen master, he added, "Sometimes the child cries".
