Today, the choreography looks thin and mannered, yet Lavrovsky's production still has extraordinary emotional sweep – and it led to a deluge of successors.
THE most likely successor to China's prime minister, Zhu Rongji, is a thin, mild-mannered man who will face an even tougher task than his fiery-tempered predecessor.
That daylight voice that insists I should be thin and well-mannered and hard-working and have my hair brushed and teeth white and have a pension and security and two little children, healthy and wealthy and wise, has finally broken me.
"There's no way in hell we'd be able to pay even a fraction of the asking price for a space like this," Furstnau, who is mild-mannered and thin, with a puff of brown hair that looks like the inside of a dandelion, told me in June, shortly before the museum's opening night.
Does the slight, mild-mannered Rheon like his character?
Tall, thin, tonsured, he looked like a mild-mannered Quaker, and turned out to be a descendant of ministers and missionaries.
This is not easy, since one look at Nick will confirm that, in the eyes of the world, he is the quintessence of Twispiness: well-mannered, light of voice, and as thin as a grebe.
Even some critics who admire her artistry have complained that she sometimes indulges in fussy and mannered interpretive ticks, and has spread herself too thin with ventures into pop.
As one who sometimes wore out her welcome in mainstream media — she has worked at The Associated Press, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times and New York Magazine — Ms. Finke found her métier on the Web, where sourcing standards are often thin or nonexistent and the prosecution of journalism is a far less mannered affair.
"8 Women" is, quite deliberately, thinner and colder than any of their films, but its silly, mannered contrivances nonetheless cast a nostalgic spell, and you find yourself drawn helplessly into the loopy, nonsensical story with strangely fretful anticipation.
