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What continually threatens Lucchesi's suspended animations is a manneristic overdose of whimsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Correggio, again, though he can hardly be said to have founded a school, was destined to exercise wide and perilous influence over a host of manneristic imitators.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Both Beccafumi and Peruzzi felt the cold and manneristic Roman style of rhetoric injuriously.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

"Even with a first-rate artist you need change, otherwise your dinners become manneristic, as ours have become of late."

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James

The time came, however, when the Scots acquired a school and style of their own, and all that can be pleaded for it is, that it is manneristic and peculiar.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew