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Fabulous pileups of flesh conjuring Last Judgments, Sistine ceilings and all-around mannerist madness.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2020

In an age in which there is an Instagram account devoted to slavishly covering food’s every last mannerist turn, Bourdain was more interested in pulling the camera back and revealing food’s social and cultural contexts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018

Concert-hall design has entered its grand mannerist phase, or, some might argue, its age of decadence.

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2017

He is ever the mannerist, even in his painted explosions and through all that comic-strip weeping.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2013

As an actor, his declamation is not natural, and his deportment is too much that of a mannerist.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.