mannerism
noun
a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech.
mannerist
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a word derived from
mannerism.
Example Sentences
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Where Cézanne and Matisse were ultimately classicists seeking deeper harmonies, Avery was more of a mannerist.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
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
Though “willed” into language, as Tate put it, their mannerist modernism feels like a distinctly personal invention.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
He is ever the mannerist, even in his painted explosions and through all that comic-strip weeping.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2013
In the first case he is a mannerist, in the other a worker in a chosen groove.
From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore
