Sentence examples for mere mannerism from inspiring English sources
May's performance, rooted in slight but suggestive gestures, is a study in how we might differentiate between social appearance and the more fundamental self, between mere mannerism and real soul.
Djokovic learned the hard way that those baseline habits are not mere mannerisms to lampoon.
I don't think playing up my regular-guy aspects would help; the affinity runs a lot deeper and nastier than mere mannerisms.
"I felt that the flat plane and wavy lines were becoming mere mannerisms… I painted a number of pictures with broad, distinct lines, horizontal lines and vertical lines as well as converging diagonal brushstrokes".
They have a mannerism in their very eating and drinking, in their mere handling a decanter".
According to Hall, body language, facial expressions, voice inflections and stock mannerisms impart information in a register higher than mere words.
It is a novel that takes every theme, narrative technique and preoccupation of the author and turns it inside out, revealing how qualities that have established Mr. Amis as one of the foremost stylists of his generation can easily devolve into self-indulgence and mannerism; how daring choices in subject matter and form can mutate into mere grossness and hollow pretension.
Here Balanchine style is repeatedly turned into mannerism, so that even a transfer of weight, with pelvic emphasis, becomes a mere effect.
He went to the Country Music Hall of Fame and studied all the existing footage of Williams -- a mere 15 minutes' worth, from two 1952 television performances -- to get the singer's mannerisms down.
The people we encounter in novels are ultimately mere recipes, too — so many eyes, so many bright teeth, so many repeated tics and characterizing mannerisms — and we accept that we cannot perfectly reproduce them, either.
