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

From Time Magazine Archive

We are sometimes told that certain manneristic ways are often a speaker's strength.

From Public Speaking by Winter, Irvah Lester

Hysterical, garrulous, manneristic as he was, there was yet a truly epic sweep in certain passages of his History of France.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

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

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