Gina, a hairdresser in Idaho, whose husband worked as a freight manager at a chain store, had "a peculiar mannerism of keeping her mouth closed even when speaking".
Before the Soviets connected village groupings, or jamaats, with paved roads, bards would hike from one to another, singing ditties about the neighbors' peculiar clothes or mannerisms, said Enver F. Kisriev, a Dagestani sociologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The bewitching, sometimes surreal lyrics in Pratt's delicately handcrafted freak-folk songs are matched by the way she delivers them: with the calm, naturalistic flow of Nick Drake or Vashti Bunyan, and a peculiar, almost childlike mannerism akin to fellow Drag City artist Joanna Newsom.
Cumberbatch is brilliant, getting the peculiar vocal and physical mannerisms of Assange just so, playing him as saint and sinner, perfectly capturing his shabby charisma.
This episodic book is narrated by a nameless summer visitor who relates the life stories of various inhabitants, capturing the idiomatic language, customs, mannerisms, and humour peculiar to Down-Easters.
Prints like "The Standard Bearer" advertised that Goltzius, still in his twenties, was a master of what came to be called Mannerism, that most peculiar of aesthetic fashions, born of an indifference to both classicism and naturalism.
Sadly, it's done as a duet with Antony Hegarty, whose vocal mannerisms are, if anything, more idiosyncratic and peculiar than Marianne's; together, they clash like an iceberg scraping away at the hull of the Titanic, A late attempt to salvage the track by funking things up only makes matters worse, compounding its lack of grace with charmless gaucheness.
Jonson distinguished two kinds of humour: one was true humour, in which one peculiar quality actually possessed a man, body and soul; the other was an adopted humour, or mannerism, in which a man went out of his way to appear singular by affecting certain fashions of clothing, speech, and social habits.
