Sentence examples for somewhat mannered from inspiring English sources

He began using figurative elements in his paintings and eventually became a somewhat mannered painter of scenes from everyday life.

"It's not that I felt limited by journalism exactly," she says, her Queen's English riding up on a somewhat mannered American lilt.

Followed by a decidedly menacing take on "Do You Call That a Buddy," the results were rich, but somewhat mannered, as if you could picture a scene from HBO's Crescent City tribute "Treme" being filmed somewhere in the upper boxes.

The playing is powerful, if somewhat choppily mannered, which is intensified by the percussiveness of the piano.

Toward the end of the film, we see a somewhat overly mannered Sabina, now all white-haired and hunched, lighting a candle at Warsaw's grotesquely monumental Palace of Culture, built by Stalin, where she had buried Bronislaw's remains more than fifty years before.

The program ended with a somewhat mild-mannered reading of Schubert's Symphony No. 5.

At the start of those 30 minutes he's the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a mild-mannered, somewhat idealistic bureaucrat who is about to be fired at the start of the president's second term.

I would say both of them [Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio] are actors in a class of the very brilliant but mannered and somewhat self-regarding Anthony Hopkins.

By choosing her – acclaimed and bestselling, but also trenchant, highly mannered and somewhat complicated – Céline's creative director, Phoebe Philo, is sending out quite a bracing message, even if the semaphore in which it's written will, alas, be largely illegible to those who know nothing of Didion.

He's mild-mannered, amiable, somewhat pedantic.

It is a story that Dr. Aber, mild-mannered and somewhat timid, tells reluctantly.