| 单词 | mannered |
| 例句 | What she wanted to say was, “Count Olaf is an evil man,” but she was well mannered. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z But his mannered English bothered her as she got older, because it was costume, his shield against insecurity. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z No point being good mannered with this little hooligan. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I don’t understand why I need to leave, why Mrs. Murphy can’t keep me if she thinks I am so well mannered. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t want to scare them away, now, do you? You must keep it pulled back. If you’re neat and well mannered, they might not be so quick to jump to conclusions.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z These Italians were also very mannered and matched manners with the two we had collected before. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then Megan stepped up to Joey and kissed him on the cheek, and I could see he kissed her back too, all suave and mannered, like he did that kind of stuff all the time. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Don’t mention it, it’s a pleasure to have such a well- mannered young visitor.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He was well built, well dressed, and well mannered, with nothing foolish or humble about him, despite the fact that he had just fallen into a ditch and been relieved of his weapon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The children were charming and well mannered; whatever minor quirks lingered from their unusual upbringing, the howling and drooling and so forth—these would soon fade. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She was polite and well mannered, and at family dinners was the first girl cousin up from her seat to clear the table and wash the dishes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The South was a well-bred, well- mannered, highly educated man challenging you to a duel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the surface, he was the embodiment of every parent’s dream, a strong, tall, well-dressed and well- mannered boy with talent and striking looks, not to mention the wit to joke with an adult. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And Tom, big and red, already cultivating a fine flowing mustache, sat at the kitchen table with his sleeves rolled down as he had been mannered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even his handwriting was mannered, all curves and flourishes, with a uniform elegance that looked like something printed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He had not changed his clothes in some days and he looked delightfully disreputable, yet mannered and cool and light in the saddle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I find the rituals comforting—the tried-and-true hymns, sermons by the mild- mannered, slope-shouldered reverend that emphasize decency and good manners. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was right across the street from their house, but it was another world from the strict and mannered Van Gogh home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, I remember those kids. They were here early this morning. Great group. So polite and well mannered. They told me all about the competition and the huge trophy they might be bringing home.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Ambitious people, mannered people, neurotic people, high-society people—the kind of people who make life in the city so interesting—became unbearable to me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stunned but trying to be well mannered, I said, “Hello. My name is Marguerite.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But I am not ashamed because I am a bad father, a bad individual or ill mannered. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “There’s no doubt as to your qualifications. You are a fine tennis player, well mannered and able to speak English, rather well, I must say.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It's an insanely botched campaign – the mannered style of the trailers leaves the production looking cheap and the performances looking stilted. The Canyons: 2013's most pointless movie? 2013-01-03T12:57:33Z Sometimes, Stone said, these methods “go horribly wrong, but more often it leads to a kind of spontaneity that contradicts our ideas about mannered period drama.” Recreating an Archaeological Discovery From the Ground Down 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Look up old videos of Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler, and you’ll see how an approach like this can go wrong: Bernstein looks mannered, overemotional, performatively in search of transcendence. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Jorgensen seems a tad too melodramatic and mannered as Ed, a self-important businessman who gets breathless talking about male athletics. ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane,’ by the Edge of the Universe Players 2 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z I could hear Zoloft’s anxious barking as she was brought down to socialize with others, including a Boston terrier so mild mannered and playful that I felt jealous that my own wasn’t nearly as social. Ruff Club Brings Exclusivity to the Pet World 2013-01-02T21:02:22Z It's a promisingly cracked idea, with a complex rehearsal and audition process providing opportunities for Lanthimos's precisely choreographed and tortuously mannered physical/visual tableaux mourants. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-09T18:00:01Z To some Mr. Smith’s contribution might feel like urban scrawl, but he described his vision as “more of a mannered style of graffiti.” Inside Art: Josh Smith in Venice And Connecticut 2011-04-14T21:03:10Z Now, at 20 years’ distance, I’ve got to say that the early works look pretty mannered. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z With her lyrical, elongated lines, Ms. Kent can look picture-perfect, but so mannered and grand ballerina was her performance, so languorous the tempo of music and dancing, that you could doze off between positions. Dance Review: A Crowd Favorite Takes His Leave 2011-07-01T22:41:17Z Reality television morphed into semi-scripted drama, and nowadays reality shows are as stagy and mannered as the cheesiest daytime soaps. | 'Cinema Verite': The First Airing of Dirty Laundry 2011-04-21T22:02:46Z It’s my favorite forgotten film of the 90s – quirky, mannered, beautifully shot, some great performances. 'My favourite forgotten film' – you recommend your best streaming gems 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Never mannered, Barnatan’s hallmark gossamer touch deepened the sense of soulful introspection. A pair of striking debuts at Seattle Symphony 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z In a carefully mannered and intense performance, Mr. West makes us realizes that this professor wants what an actor wants: the distant adoration of a captive audience. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z He becomes much more mannered, clownish and precisely broad. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Steve Martin: The Television Stuff’: A Comedian’s Evolution 2012-09-17T21:49:26Z On Saturday’s show Mr. Armisen, starring in a stale sketch about his lack of power in Washington, seemed less mannered than usual, speaking more casually, but the caricature still lacked focus. Critic?s Notebook: Comparing Fred Armisen?s ?SNL? Obama to Dana Carvey?s Bush 2011-12-05T06:52:36Z It might be dated and mannered, but this is a rewarding study of loss, and a fine snapshot of a city and society standing ravaged at the crossroads. The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal – review 2013-03-29T17:51:01Z "Nonsense reports alleging violence in Scotland, surprisingly good mannered crowds both sides," Murdoch wrote on his Twitter feed early Thursday. Rupert Murdoch explains why Fox dropped Time Warner bid 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Too well mannered to join in on “Maria” or “Tonight” at a live performance of “West Side Story,” even though you know all the words? Where to Celebrate Sondheim in New York 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z She didn’t know how to walk in her heels, her voice seemed strained, her gestures mannered. Women on Broadway: A Year of Living Dangerously 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The old man’s equally mannered way of talking offers a clue to his true relationship to Caitlin. David Vann’s ‘Aquarium’ delves into the depths of mother-daughter tension 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The grunts and howls seem every bit as mannered as the florid diction of Olivier and Oberon, perhaps even more so. Movie Review: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario 2012-10-05T00:03:37Z In the B flat sonata D960, the hushed, unfolding theme of the first movement was slightly held back in an uncharacteristically mannered way, but with Lewis's playing exquisitely weighted and judged throughout. Paul Lewis – review 2012-11-14T16:17:45Z It would just feel mannered, and it would fall apart under analysis. Dan Clowes’s “Wilson” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But her persona has always had a stinging, modern-woman freshness and air of spontaneous engagement that don’t quite jibe with more mannered roles. Theater Review: Cynthia Nixon in ?Wit,? at Manhattan Theater Club 2012-01-27T03:01:00Z Walls manage to create spectacular sounds from what looks like a bank of iPods, while Silver Columns' brand of squelchy, disco-tinged electro is less mannered and more fun live than on record. Icelandic music still rules the Airwaves 2010-10-19T09:47:00Z Their stylized, mannered projections of self are as invented as any in a novel. Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook 2010-08-13T20:15:00Z Behind it hangs Bernard Buffet's enormous – and very mannered – re-creation of a dramatic scene from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Aquatopia: art on the ocean wave 2013-07-22T17:25:00Z The reality, however, is that both of these young people are so attractive and well mannered it's impossible not to think of them together. 'If I Stay' asks life-and-death questions, with love as a referee 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The contrast between the modernized dialogue and Austen’s period-appropriate language only makes both styles seem more mannered. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Film reviews following Antiviral's premiere pointed to a confused plot and mannered style that prevented the film from delivering the satirical wallop its subject merits. Antiviral brings Cronenberg father-son act to Cannes 2012-05-21T16:51:13Z “At times, the drama he aims at is off-target melodrama and his stylization threatens to topple over as a mannered excess.” Bob Dylan, More Than a Songwriter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Yes, there are many scenes of mannered excess, but what manners, what excess. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z He can be a master of hesitating stammers and tics, but his performances never seem mannered; that is his brilliance. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z But that novel’s tone was more mannered and its style so self-consciously profound. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Blanchett’s amusingly mannered turn is the tangiest thing here, though it’s hard to defend the surprise Golden Globe nomination she won for this. Streaming: where to find the best Richard Linklater and Xavier Dolan films online 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z It shows her singing at its freshest and least mannered. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z As a New York society woman who loved singing publicly despite being painfully tone-deaf, Streep was effusively dotty, characteristically empathetic, and a bit mannered. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The Sibelius brought to the fore Harding's occasional tendency to over-control, in a mannered, stately performance that never really captured the music's innate sense of organic progression, or its mood of omnipresent despair. LSO/Harding/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-06T13:21:40Z His Tchaikovsky was logical, restrained and orderly — and also relaxed and natural in its phrasing, as opposed to the mannered, manicured style that van Zweden often brings to the standard repertory. Review: Another Week, Another Philharmonic Podium Candidate 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z I found his opening Arioso, “Comfort ye,” somewhat mannered and precious, but I appreciated the care he evidently brought to the placement and shape of each note. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ by the Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-25T19:53:56Z His swirling masterpieces have a flamboyance and freedom that is largely absent in the mannered nature of modern art. Art in 2015: A look ahead 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z This central element of Mr. Johnson’s style has come to feel more mannered than clever. ‘Mind Out of Matter,’ From the Composer Scott Johnson 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The Parisian men Ms. Scott met were similarly “well groomed, well shod and well mannered.” Books of Style: Reviewing ?Lessons From Madame Chic,? and ?Paris Versus New York? 2012-03-21T21:46:43Z But they are no more perfect or well mannered than you are! Perspective | Ask Amy: Christmas crashers ponder this year’s exclusion 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Wild Beasts' exotic pop and Hayden Thorpe's mannered falsetto got a good reaction in the tent, but Empire of the Sun's Prince-esque future funk caused bafflement on the main stage. Latitude festival 2010-07-18T20:29:00Z Casting Pacino and Irons as siblings is a witty move: at this stage in their careers, both are highly mannered, sometimes almost self-parodic performers who exist at opposite ends of the thermal spectrum. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Gallerano’s highly mannered performance certainly is magnetic, whether she teeters on the brink of a breakdown or crashes into it. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z They are the unmean girls, subjugating their spunk and sparkle to be perceived as humble, well mannered, liked by all. Girls, Uninterrupted 2010-08-13T22:38:00Z Nonetheless, the mannered, hierarchical, jet-setting keepers of haute couture kept plugging away. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z His mannered placement of the camera is hard to ignore, and the actors suffer for it. Review: 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' Favors Technology Over Faces 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The first was highly successful, but the last suffered from Sellers's increasingly mannered performance. Blake Edwards obituary 2010-12-16T19:36:35Z Grim, murderous determination was never the mannered, polite Moore’s strong suit. Roger Moore wasn’t a good Bond, but he was my Bond 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z These early works often feel fussy and mannered, with a nervous energy that hasn’t yet been incorporated into the expressive freedom of his later works. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death The playing was pretty and well mannered, but Goldstein’s restraint left Mozart’s richly expressive lines sounding a little meandering. Back to basics with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z We are first allowed to sample the highly mannered acting of the Kean company members. Theater Review: ‘Red Velvet’ Recalls One Shocked London Audience 2014-04-01T13:23:28Z It potters along like a well mannered, well-groomed mare at a gentle walk. TV review: River Cottage; The Making of a Lady; Him & Her 2012-12-16T21:45:01Z At times the choruses teetered between bland and mannered. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z Their video counterparts in an artful, if sometimes mannered film, by Ali Hossaini, amplify their concerns. Music Review: ‘Oceanic Verses,’ at Pace, in River to River Festival 2012-06-26T21:49:08Z The mannered style of the female figure called “Undine” looks back to the art of the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux half a century earlier. At Auction, Buyers Still Happily Dropping Millions for Quality Works 2010-05-06T11:30:00Z But commercial packaging goes for the conventional every time, and this show’s familiar mannered wrapping is no different. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Glow & Behold” is the band’s second album, and it’s a touch looser and less mannered than its debut, which means Yuck is become a real band, not just a spot-on imitation of one. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z Anderson cast him late in the process, after auditioning a number of young actors who felt too mannered and formally trained to match Haim’s naturalistic style. Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s both self-consciously mannered and merrily playful — a mixture that Austen herself might find just right. The week ahead: mead-brewing classes, Chuck Close’s giant faces and, of course, SIFF! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z But his writing style can also be distractingly formal and mannered, especially once we leave Vienna and arrive in America. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Whether Chinese are less mannered than other tourists is a matter of debate. The new ugly Americans? Video of pushy Chinese tourists goes viral 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z He twitches and broods and scowls effectively, but there isn’t much going on beneath the mannered surfaces. | 'High': Kathleen Turner in Matthew Lombardo Play in Hartford 2010-08-09T21:57:00Z The tone may be apt for a post-communist world caught in aspic; it can also feel mannered. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Weaver’s character was ultimately too, well, well mannered to detonate the metaphorical bomb that might have brought down the Bush administration. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Fleming, for all her success, has drawn tough criticism from a segment of opera buffs who find her singing mannered and fussy. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z At Adsum, where the placard outside the store reads “For athletes and aesthetes,” the clothes are mannered and concise, a range of well-executed basics with appealing twists. Let’s Take This Conversation Offline 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Dicky, Brenda and Boo Boo expose something mannered in the performance of Christian Bale; they are the messy, unglamorous real thing in the way that Hollywood acting isn't. High on Crack Street scores the hits despite The Fighter's fancy footwork 2011-02-02T15:24:32Z This is a different Bartoli from the mannered performer of a few years ago. Cecilia Bartoli ? review 2010-12-10T22:15:00Z Lots of American art has been a similar kind of Trojan horse, hiding the sublime inside the casual or the mannered. Music Review: Pivoting From Patter to Poetry 2011-03-03T21:46:39Z Wilcox, meanwhile, is a moving character study of an isolated survivalist, stripped of dialogue and affectation, that marks a bracing change of pace for the usually more mannered Quebecois auteur Denis Côté. Streaming: is the Brazilian film Araby the movie of the decade? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z The mannerisms are in place without ever becoming mannered, as are shifts in mood that find her rejecting Mr. McRae’s movingly played Anthony within minutes of an intimacy that threatens to move beyond the platonic. On the London Stage: It's Judy's World and Welcome to It 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z At one point the performers’ cellphones ring, one after the other, and they jog to answer, all mannered embarrassment. | 'Under Construction': Tales From a Hard-Hat Zone: The U.S.A. 2011-04-27T22:19:43Z Combining the mannered affect of a sitcom and the brazen intimacy of a therapy session, the film unfolds as a series of dialogues between pairs of outlandish interlocutors in five world cities. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Gowan, a mild- mannered idealist who for several years was caught up in the Front's campaign, which grew to include arson. 'If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front': a balanced look at destructive actions 2011-07-21T19:31:04Z Impeccably mannered, she greets each guest announced by the hired butler with a "how delightful to see you". Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z But compare Yiadom-Boakye with another artist, Kehinde Wiley, who deliberately inserts black faces and bodies into some of the most mannered tropes of Western art, and it’s clear something very different is going on. Review | An artist who summons black faces and bodies at ease in the world 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z She creates a delightfully mannered, almost musical performance, drawing out vowels and spitting out consonants, particularly if they are curses. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z "Any sense of enveloping menace, mystery and even thematic weight that might mask the writing's more ponderously mannered aspects is missing," it added. Hugh Jackman makes triumphant return to Broadway in 'The River' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Cash was once asked, she says, by a friend who found one of her records too mannered. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z The show left you musing on how far away — and how musically restrained and lyrically well mannered — that supposedly golden era really is. Music Review: Tunes for the Swank Who?d Rather Cha-Cha 2011-05-01T21:16:05Z Yet other sequences, like one in which Wilson dances away from the desk in a slow sideways shuffle, or a courtly prance, seem mannered. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z Nor does her singing ever feel mannered, although her bright lyric soprano is a superbly trained instrument. Review: Kristin Chenoweth, That Perky Performer With the Powerhouse Pipes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He added, “There is nothing precious about Chloë’s performance — nothing mannered, no weird Locust Valley lockjaw — and yet she makes a very strong woman believable for the period.” Chloë Sevigny Wants More. Lizzie Borden Is Helping With That. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Sanders was then getting on in years, 54 but seeming older — and watched again now, his mannerisms in it seem a little too mannered and theatrical. Why I'd like to be … George Sanders 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z His tendency to insert a long silence before the final chord, at the end of a mannered rallentando, was the only interpretive tic that wearied. Review | Everyone’s a soloist in Eclipse Chamber concert 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The whole piece is faintly ridiculous, full of mannered gestures and closing with a dogwhistle-high F, but with Tynan's wit and charm it brought the house down. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z One of the most surefire bewitchers in Shakespeare, Puck, is perversely mannered, with much elocution and many rolls of the arms by Matthew Tennyson. Strange Interlude; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Trash Cuisine – review 2013-06-08T23:05:35Z The first-rate cast gleams with professional polish, while specializing in a mannered deadpan hysteria, and nobody oversells the cute eccentricity. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z That approach risks making the music seem mannered, even manipulated. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Each artist effectively conveys motion, but while Freeman’s dancers yield to abandon, Schmitz’s are more mannered, as well as more isolated. Review | In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Yet the whole affair feels mannered and makeweight, and I could never shake the sense that Gilman and Hayward were acting for the director as opposed to talking to each other. Cannes 2012 diary: day one 2012-05-16T14:06:05Z At the centre of this process was Keenan, whose vision drove the group and whose voice could be variously haunting, mannered and heart-rending. Trish Keenan obituary 2011-01-17T15:27:31Z Though he disliked the term “method”, his instinctive, unpredictable performances were in radical contrast to the mannered style of the time. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Though mannered and elliptical throughout, it’s more readable than those qualities usually herald, and in the end there’s something hypnotic about its stately, confessional prose. Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z After her mannered, vacant performance in the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, people like me wondered: Why is she in movies? Side Effects: One Pill Makes You Murder 2013-02-08T05:01:30Z The ruminative essays, rendered in elegant but somewhat mannered prose, offer context and insight on her life and poetry, but their meanderings can sap the energy of the collection. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Dementia and dictatorship are in the air, but who will feel threatened by such carefully mannered dialogue? Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z This is the mood in the wings: manic, playful, the actors being self-consciously mannered and stagey. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z But the best parts of “The One Inside” are those least hobbled by its fractured structure and mannered dialogue. ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Also, well mannered, perma-tanned from jaunts to the Caribbean and Ibiza, and close to their families, which usually reside in large gated houses with swimming pools and tennis courts less than an hour from London. Pippa Middleton Goes Out on Her Own. But She’s Not Alone. 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The characters are meant to be offbeat, but they are just off-putting with their tics and mannered line deliveries. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z It's a weird listening experience, to put it mildly, with Dougie creepy-calm through flowery pimpisms, his messy syllable style and mannered singsong flow meshing with budget horror pianos to sinister effect. Music Monday: Salmon Thrasher, Sol, Dougie 2010-06-07T19:46:00Z Instead she seems mannered and controlled, an actor in a loose straitjacket. Theater Review: Julia May Jonas?s ?Evelyn,? at Bushwick Starr 2012-02-29T00:24:30Z Certain critics have found Mr. Rattle’s interpretations of the 19th-century classics mannered and uninspiring. The Berlin Philharmonic Comes to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The singing feels mannered and possibly derivative — those swoops and cracks strongly suggest Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse — but the song’s tale imparts a welcome gravity. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z People who knew Kavanaugh said he was nice and well mannered except when he was drinking or hanging out with his friends and showed his “cocky dismissive side.” ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ Takes a Hard Look at the Supreme Court Justice and His Accusers 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Because imagine them trying to act like proper mannered gentlefolk! The Morning After: Honey Boo Boo Don’t Care 2012-08-09T14:36:08Z Or rather, the acting relationship between Ms. Caplan and Mr. Charles, who sound, when they deliver their highly mannered banter, like actors reciting lines in a drawing-room play. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Libby's Last Stand and Bill's Admission 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z By Hallman’s admission, Baker is the sort of “noncanonical” writer who is widely admired within literary circles but whose mannered style, not to mention quirky taste in subject matter, precludes broader fame. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Maybe I can start by saying that this the masterpiece Todd Haynes has been working toward, after a series of admirably crafted films that have all felt a touch too mannered or detached. “Carol” isn’t just a “lesbian movie”: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s ’50s love story is a classic American screen romance 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Somewhat restrained and not nearly as mannered as some real-life divas, Moore needed to be more over the top in her affectations to befit a faded star of stature. `Prima Donna' has US premiere at Brooklyn Academy 2012-02-20T16:57:08Z Mr. Anderszewski’s approach stops just short of mannered; his interpretation might even sound pretentious in the hands of a less gifted performer. Music Review: Paavo Jarvi Brings Schumann to Alice Tully Hall 2010-08-03T22:52:00Z The lying, the cunning, and the duplicity are so very mannered that it’s chilling. Review | Who’s telling the truth? ‘Tangerine’ is a twisty tale of friendship, death and deceit 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Robbins, who can’t help loving Rilke despite finding him to be “mannered mush,” is a partisan for the Edward Snow translations. Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Unlike Wright's elevated subjects, the successful business people captured here are oddly anonymous, their ordinariness punctured by absurdly mannered poses and Griffin's cinematic lighting. Format international photography festival – review 2013-03-10T00:05:49Z “Swimming Pool,” François Ozon’s first English-language film, “is simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Amazing Race’ and Some Beachy Diversions 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Almost everything you taste at Cosme seems new without being forced or mannered. Restaurant Review: Cosme in the Flatiron District 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s mannered and indirect music, but he’s a poet of that. Playlist: CDs by People, Places & Things, and Anibal Velasquez 2010-04-30T19:54:00Z Sherlock seems a little more put-together than his modern version and is better mannered, whereas Watson is nearly the same, save the new mustache. Watch Holmes and Watson Time-Travel in the New 'Sherlock' Trailer 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z As in the Schumann, he emphasized breaks and dislocations, an approach that felt more mannered here. Music Review: An Aural Monument to Beethoven 2011-01-30T22:51:30Z The aliens, for all their conformist, highly mannered behavior, are actually more individual, and better performed, than the Weavers. TV Tonight: The Neighbors Is Bad, But Not for the Reason You Might Think 2012-09-26T13:09:57Z Cabell’s honeyed soprano proved better suited to Bellini’s rich melodies than to even middle-period Verdi, and she and Lindsey were well scaled to each other, although she sometimes seemed a touch mannered in comparison. Lindsey, Portillo shine in Washington Concert Opera’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” It was mannered and low key, a far cry from the typical, late-night, DJ’d art events so common at U.S. museums nowadays. 'Late Rembrandt,' late nights at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z With mythologically named characters sometimes voicing their stage directions and inner narration, the plays seemed mannered, and the productions felt groomed to slickness. Review | ‘Moonlight’ writer McCraney’s writing still glows in ‘The Brothers Size’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Mild mannered and deferential almost to the point of shyness, he shows no trace of the vanity that often comes with being an actor, nor of the destructive personalities he has played so well. Paul Sparks Hones Tragic Persona in ?Dusk Rings a Bell? 2010-06-19T06:39:00Z The playing was slow and rather self-absorbed, its mannered hesitations not entirely encouraging. Igor Levit – review 2013-04-03T17:47:45Z Indeed, the novel is so mannered, so arch, that even intimate moments are barbed with slyly traded quips. Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “He has a side that’s quite charming and very, very well mannered. Good manners, courtesy — when he’s sober. And I think when he gets drunk, he gets very, very difficult.” Micky Lay, Source for Falstaffian Lead in ‘Jerusalem,’ Dies at 73 2014-01-03T00:01:35Z Wilmore’s style is such that he almost doesn’t seem like he’s delivering jokes: Where Stewart goes for loud and Colbert goes for mannered, Wilmore is soft-spoken and casual. Larry Wilmore starts with a bang: Why his Comedy Central debut was so impressive 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Describing it as a “cold and mannered ‘art’ western that matters not,” Mr. Wells added, “Every now and then the Coens, despite their immense talent and heavy-osity, drop the clay jug on the kitchen floor.” ?True Grit? Popularity May Generate Awards as Well as Dollars 2011-01-05T00:04:15Z The music felt draggy and some liberties of phrasing felt mannered. Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z But Ostermeier appeared to have so much control over the material, with such a by-the-book treatment of the text, that it came off as mannered. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z No mannered accent mars Ms. Stritch’s bone-dry turn as Desirée’s elderly but by no means retiring mother, whose boudoir career in a happier heyday for romance she recounts with relish in the song “Liaisons.” Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z The French even coined a term, "marivaudage", to describe Marivaux's precious, mannered dialogue: Voltaire described it as "the art of weighing flies' eggs on scales made from a spider's web". Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z That coherence, and the contrast between Robbie’s spooky, mannered performance and Ronan’s spirited openness, make the movie consistently interesting even if it’s not always convincing. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He did the chintzy electro-surf beat and most of the vocals, flavoring the track with breathy, highly mannered sexcapade lyrics that sound more like nursery rhymes than raps. Friday Favorites: Mesita, Mash Hall, Rick Ross and Kanye West 2010-07-02T18:00:00Z The novels are imaginative as ever, but they are also increasingly wobbly, bloated and mannered. ‘Quichotte’ Is Salman Rushdie’s Latest. But the Act Is Getting Old. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Too mannered for realism and too thin for fable, it spins its wheels in a social and intellectual void filled only by Wakefield’s voice-over musings and the shadow of Doctorow’s virtuosity. Review: Bryan Cranston Is a Dad in Suburban Exile in ‘Wakefield’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Although Gough's mannered elegance was hardly suited to the social misfits erupting in the new wave of British drama or the theatre of the absurd, he did not ignore either movement. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z She prefers less mannered, more classic dress, like the tangerine V-neck sweater she was wearing with tailored pants and sneakers. The Past Lives of Shirley MacLaine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Like other Jon McGregor books, it's very well written, in a very mannered style, but the heart is plain for all to see. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading this week? 2013-07-09T10:17:20Z In performance, too, Jones lends Jean a warm and wistful soul-searching quality, while Meyers’s more mannered take keeps Jonah at a distance. Review: In ‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea,’ Missed Connections 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z There is no rule in drama that a protagonist should be likable or well mannered. 'The Revisionist' has an uninspired role in need of a rewrite 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Yet too many scenes boil down into quips, head-scratching plot twists and mannered introspection. | 'Lidless': ?Lidless,? a Guant?namo Play - Review 2011-10-07T00:28:35Z I was sitting here, quite far away and being quite mannered with him, because he looked exactly like my sister. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z They are at once tributes to Classicism and mannered parodies of it and extremely pertinent to the renewed interest in the figure among younger contemporary painters. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z I had temporarily unplugged my “tweedar”—the detector I use to measure the nauseatingly mannered content of art works. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Despite his aversion to interviews, Harris is a gracious and impeccably mannered host. Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti) 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z But the kind of mannered, genteel humility she’s required to assume here doesn’t become her. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z Yet currently those traditions look mannered, tepid, inhibited, while much about the week’s repertory looks crazily misguided. Review: Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Raymonda,’ Searching About for a Perfect Suitor 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Some find his expressive gestures showy or mannered. Why Lang Lang’s Return Is a Big Deal for Classical Music 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z He was cleanshaven and well mannered with a little rebel yell underneath. What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z He is well mannered, well dressed, self deprecating, confident and aimless. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It is so measured it might soon come to look mannered and dated. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z But the temporal element of cinema makes the compositions feel mannered and overly posed. ‘Gods of Mexico’ Review: A Portrait of Indigenous Residents 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Interesting artistic choices, such as delegating extended choral passages to the soloists, were refreshing, though some clipped phrasing in the Kyrie and Gloria seemed slightly mannered. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center At times it almost seems that Mr. Baldwin’s Dysart is meant to be a winking homage to Burton, so precisely does he evoke that Welsh-born star at his most plummy and deliciously if deplorably mannered. | 'Equus': Alec Baldwin Stars at Guild Hall in East Hampton 2010-06-24T22:00:00Z I mention these others, however, not because they are entirely successful but because they inject some veins of rude comic life into a collection that is mostly too mannered, too sweet, soft and solemn. Review: Rebecca Makkai’s ‘Music for Wartime,’ Stories With Echoes of Loss 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Today, the mannered, conventional style of the composition borders on the ridiculous. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z “Phèdre,” however, is so mannered and ritualized that it proves almost immune to this kind of unconscious modernization. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet?s ?Ph?dre? and ?Psych?? - Review 2011-09-28T21:04:57Z In fact, one might meet Baby, the dog shared by Mr. King, Ms. Radziwill and Mr. Swanhaus, and find her slightly ill mannered at times. One Dog. Three ‘Co-Parents.’ What Could Go Wrong? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z I didn't see it, but the critical consensus was that the acting was mannered and weak. 'Festen': Shocking revelations and a 4-star review 2011-05-06T19:58:49Z Critics divided sharply on the more intricate middle novels, whose prose struck many as mannered. Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77 2011-01-21T06:23:00Z Yes, there are many scenes of mannered excess, but what manners, what excess! When geniuses bomb 2012-06-12T14:00:00Z Playwright Raymond J. Barry straddles the naturalistic and the mannered in “Foreclosure or Yelling at Women Walking Their Dogs,” a new play closing this week at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Fatherhood is tested in 'Foreclosure' at Greenway Court 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z A bizarrely mannered and cerebral creation, Mr. Irwin’s Fool is likely to divide theatergoers. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z I think of myself as relatively well mannered, but at any given restaurant, when my plate is taken away, there’s an outline of my plate in crumbs. The Mirror: Why I Wear Only Black and White 2012-07-25T19:00:42Z The works themselves are almost perversely mannered fusions of those postmodern staples, set-up photography and rephotography that, on their own, render obsession opaque. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z Sometimes an actor is naturally just strange enough, whether in looks or something deeper within, to carry off a role that would look like mannered showboating by anyone else. 'Yellow Handkerchief' Review: Kristen Stewart Road Trip 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z Mr. Newsome, who is mild mannered but intensely focused enough to retain the arcana of heraldry, became interested in the subject while living in Europe several years ago. Art: Rashaad Newsome, Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry 2011-10-20T20:08:10Z What he didn’t say, because he’s well mannered, was, “Why are you jealous of something you don’t even believe in?” Modern Love: Is God Just Not That Into Me? 2014-04-17T19:13:08Z The photographs seem to confirm the harsher criticisms of Twombly’s work, that it is lackadaisical, overly tasteful, fixated on the past and mannered. Art in Review: Cy Twombly: ‘The Last Paintings’ ‘A Survey of Photographs 1954-2011’ 2012-11-08T22:37:10Z The first piece, “Sea Wall,” features Tom Sturridge offering a mannered, mournful account of the death of a child. Review | Jake Gyllenhaal is a stage animal for sure. But he needs more feral turf in ‘Sea Wall/A Life.’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Both works celebrate mannered extremes of articulation, be they the extravagant filigrees of High Gothic architecture; the deep, impossibly clear vistas; or the comedic quirks of the human personality. Art Review: Rediscovering an Earthy Master 2010-10-07T21:50:00Z He is mild mannered and soft-spoken, and nothing suggests he has made a career of writing, acting in and directing provocative horror movies with titles like “Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind.” Arts & Leisure: Jos? Mojica Marins, Brazilian Filmmaker, Conjures Macabre 2011-10-19T16:23:12Z But then, we are whisked back into the bloodless drawing rooms of mannered artistic re-creation, and the movie collapses back into itself. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z That might seem an unlikely claim on first glance: "Glee" is a feather-light comedy at least 70 percent of the time, and a glib, mannered one at that. Why "Glee" is this century's "Twin Peaks" 2010-06-08T17:10:00Z This is one of the least vain performances I have ever seen an actress give, and certainly the most natural that Shaw, whose intelligence can make her mannered, has ever given. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z The dogs’ humans had answered a notice from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra seeking mild- mannered dogs for a cameo in a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a collaboration with the Folger Theatre. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call Her performance is also more mannered, with gestural and verbal tics that make her stupendously realized onstage character more obviously a creation. Critic?s Notebook: Female Comedians Are Confidently Breaking Taste Taboos 2011-11-15T21:38:24Z For Tyler, the results were mannered and synthetic. Lauren Bacall’s Debut in ‘To Have and Have Not’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Portman tries to portray this most enigmatic figure as frosty, inscrutable and vulnerable, but the performance comes off as calculating and mannered. Jackie Places the First Lady Under a Microscope 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The Chicago Theatre Addict was particularly scathing of Catherine Zeta Jones's "inelegant, mannered and lip-sweaty performance of Send in the Clowns". Noises off: Views from the edge of the red carpet 2010-06-17T10:04:00Z But it does so in a mannered and self-conscious way. ‘American Born Chinese’ Review: We’re All Walt’s Children 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z That wired fervour, so distant from indie rock's standard options of irony, whimsy or mannered cool, makes it easy to overstate Arcade Fire's righteous intensity. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z But Theron gives an interesting, if mannered performance as Megyn Kelly, the Fox News presenter who challenges Trump on his misogynist attitudes. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z With her sister Anna she built a body of work, from the mid-1970s on, that dwelled in clear-eyed sentiment, rarely sounding mannered or cloying. The Week Ahead: May 8 ? 14 2011-05-06T19:26:23Z The harder it works, the more it invests in that strange space, the better it becomes; of all its records, “Mr. M” sounds like its least mannered, most mysterious and probably its best. New Music: New Albums From Estelle, Lambchop and Matthew Shipp Trio 2012-02-27T23:36:19Z But Ms. Shor delivers them with such exquisitely mannered wit that she turns low camp into high elegance. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z I mean he writes by folding abstruse science and mannered artistry in architecturally intriguing ways. The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi – review 2012-09-26T07:00:14Z The mannered, intentionally stilted performances give the drama a stagey feel, which vibes with the film’s ethereal aesthetics. ‘Giving Birth to a Butterfly’ Review: Melancholy and Menace 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Carell is a charming, maddening enigma, mawkish and mannered but always, somehow, a magnet for empathy. ‘Welcome to Marwen’ Review: Playing With Toys and Putting Away Childish Things 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z And though she was far too well mannered to trumpet her rightful place in history, her relegation to its margins caused her great private anguish. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z For someone who refuses to speak, Patti is sure articulate: She delivers her valediction in the mannered cadence of a Victorian murderer, taunting Garvey with cruel precision. 'The Leftovers' Recap: The Show Can Feel Like 'The Twilight Zone,' With Pretensions 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Later Ms. Quinn joined Ms. Fenley for a mirroring dance of Egyptian flatness and later still the two women moved together while having a conversation that was mannered in its informality: “You should eat more.” Dance Review: Molissa Fenley’s ‘Cross Bridge’ at The Club at La MaMa 2012-12-12T22:52:49Z Nelsons retained a relaxed and pliant mood, encouraging rude, rustic interventions from the bassoon and shaping the cuckooing woodwind with a deliberation and nuance that were never mannered. CBSO/Nelsons: Beethoven cycle, The Flying Dutchman; Eugene Onegin – review 2013-03-24T00:07:02Z There’s something occasionally mannered and artificial about his dialogue, which tends toward the screwball or the Socratic, depending on the moment. ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The differing inputs don’t destabilize this winning album, which is mannered but also vibrant. Playlist: New Music by the Singer Mariah McManus 2011-12-23T14:33:58Z What of the baroque, mannered, self-consciously literary style of Baudelaire and Wilde? Where did the decadent novel go? 2010-09-29T08:30:00Z But it struck me as an excessively mannered and solipsistic interpretation of the role, the art subordinated to the artist and not the other way around, a capricious echo of a once potentially great Violetta. La Traviata 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z At all the shows I’ve been to, people are kind, respectful and well mannered. You Live Outside New York. Are You Ready to Return to Broadway? 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Hyphen8ed is a smooth singer who keeps trying to rap, and messes up verses that probably look good on paper with his mannered speech-style slow flow. Album review: "Seattlecalifragilisticextrahelladope" by State of the Artist 2010-05-24T21:52:00Z Sometimes, Fiennes’s “lower class” mode can be a little mannered and quaint, but his Basil is commanding and convincing. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “In my opinion, I don’t see it as a function of kids being poorly mannered,” he said. This Life: Teaching Respect to the Young Faithful 2012-10-12T20:37:30Z The consummate craftsmanship is not quite enough to make up for the mannered futile subject. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z She fits in well to Hartley's stylized performances with slightly mannered, offbeat rhythms, what actress Adrienne Shelly once called the "emotional choreography" of Hartley's work. Cinefamily salutes indie director Hal Hartley, new film 'Ned Rifle' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z His approach moves away from the conventional idea that movie kids are either horribly mannered, beribboned child stars or saintly simple souls, luminous with non-professional purity and authenticity. Cannes 2013: A Story of Children and Film – review 2013-05-17T16:25:01Z The performances, especially those of Ms. Kirk, are mannered to the point of caricature. Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z Although Scandal is not a politics show, the series does seem to owe a little to The West Wing–in particular, the fast-fast-fast, mannered dialogue. TV Tonight: Scandal 2012-04-05T12:51:33Z It's more engaging work than Toccato or Butterfly Dreaming, which, while subtle and impeccably mannered, are just a little too tightly buttoned. Cleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z The performance is gratingly mannered, and it’s sometimes literally hard to see unless you turn your head around. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Keeper feels as mannered as the most manipulated pop, a set of codified practices brought to life. New band of the day (Shovels and Rope No 1,459) 2013-02-25T16:35:13Z Once that’s understood, the record becomes sort of entertaining: gaudy, vacuous, densely mannered. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z It’s all terribly mannered, sometimes tipping headlong into cliché. Dance Review: Big Bang Theory From Armitage Gone! Dance 2010-06-04T23:00:00Z This mannered mimicry might impress a Cowell, but a quarter-century after Culture Club's blue-eyed funk and Motown homages, we're not quite such pushovers. New band of the day ? No 779: Joe Worricker 2010-05-05T16:01:00Z His voice jumps skittishly between mannered baritone and shrill falsetto, swathed in a spooky echo that he neglects to turn off even when speaking. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – review 2012-11-09T16:51:59Z The second part is all very sweet and sincere, but there's something about his opening words that seems off – a little mannered, a bit old-fashioned and faintly familiar. Are you ever too old for pop music? 2012-06-16T23:06:03Z These supporters say they are frustrated that a mild mannered guy who devotes enormous amounts of time and money to charity is benched. The Quiet Return of Bruce Weber and Mario Testino 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z I am very unconvinced by Charlize Theron’s mannered and odd impersonation of Fox News star Megyn Kelly in Bombshell; the film’s confusion over the fact that Kelly is no feminist shows up in her performance. Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The vivid horror of that image lingers even if the reams of talk surrounding it in Anton Dudley’s mannered play are considerably less evocative. | 'Letters to the End of the World': Anton Dudley?s Play About the Effects of AIDS 2010-05-10T21:44:00Z But the Kylian and Forsythe works are both highly mannered and try very hard to impress, and I find just one of those in an evening is quite enough. Washington Ballet pulls together in Justin Peck’s ‘In Creases’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The result, alas, is an ungainly, mannered — and unbelievable — story that’s saccharine where it’s meant to be moving, contrived where it’s supposed to be suspenseful. Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z His Bach, for instance, was poised, well mannered, and a model of clarity. Review | Nathan Lee makes ambitious Washington debut 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z You may consider that Odell's performance on the song Sense is quite mannered or you may feel it genuinely captures what it feels like to experience real pain. New band of the day – Tom Odell (No 1,388) 2012-11-06T16:29:00Z The diction is sometimes slightly mannered, as if the painter were making a formal speech to the academicians of the salon and mocking their language as well as their prescriptions and proscriptions. Poem of the week: Pissarro's Orchards by Marianne Burton 2013-06-24T10:20:03Z 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. Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z A mannered quality I often dislike in performances by Ms. Miller’s own troupe was absent from Ballet Hispánico’s unaffected dancing. Review: Ballet Hispánico, Piercing Stereotypes 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Donen had an instinctive grasp of how the musical worked when it was muscular and forthright and uninhibited, but also within its own world of mannered artifice. Stanley Donen: a Hollywood blueblood treasured for Singin' in the Rain 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z A more serious problem, however, was that her mannered luxuriance in these effects made her look in love with only herself. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z Brando’s larger-than-life performance on the other hand is so mannered that for many contemporary viewers it verges on parody or camp. The cutthroat casting of "The Godfather": life imitates mob movie 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z What I dislike is mannered "fine writing", of which we were sent a great deal. How to choose the Best Young British Novelists 2013-04-16T12:43:52Z I see people playing music indebted to other times and never felt like I fit in with them, because it sounds mannered to me, not as direct. Nick Waterhouse finds the right musical language 2012-10-04T16:30:00Z So far, fairly standard, but the opening 45 minutes play out in an energetic, disorienting swirl of remarkable production design, wall-to-wall music and mannered line delivery. Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus review – Spike Lee's horror flick is uneven but unique 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z "The Sleeping Man" shows a recumbent young man dozing, either on a blanket or in a mannered treatment of an ocean shore. Gregory Grenon: oil-on-glass paintings with a stained-glass glow, at Traver Gallery 2012-07-20T15:16:04Z One or two of the friends I have persuaded to read Hazzard's work have found the prose mannered, but once you tune to its wavelength, her style exerts a dreamlike spell. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z Up against them, I found Cumberbatch too mannered, like an actor determined to show his work. Forget Naturalism. With Movie Acting This Year, Big Swings Are In. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Loving loves trains — indeed, some years ago he wrote a book with a title professing just that — and he has a stiffly mannered approach to the delights of permanent-way passage, the kind that made E.M. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “Behind the wheel of a car, men and women both whose behavior in all other circumstances is beyond reproach, become suddenly transformed into bad mannered autocrats,” Emily Post wrote. Hitting the road for the holidays? How to behave — and stay sane — in the car. 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Bouder, now often so mannered in ballets by George Balanchine, was at her freest and blithest. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Robert Morse played the character based on Mr. Prince, presenting a caricature of the man himself — excitable, phone-obsessed, overly mannered, generally unpleasant. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The shell-shocked monologues that follow are a little mannered, but these fragments form a mosaic of loss that ranges from desolate sorrow to survivalist brutality. | 'The Argument': In City of Loss the Dead Shall Dance 2011-03-09T22:00:45Z Without much warning, these adults will suddenly start speaking in a cartoonish voice: Eric turns rummy as a mannered Brit named Charles, while Rachel murmurs as “Moopie-Moopie.” Filmmaker Dustin Guy Defa likes the mess of family tensions. But he's ready to grow up 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Method acting, of course, could scarcely be more antithetical to Anderson’s own rigidly mannered performance style, which makes “Asteroid City” a fascinating, sometimes brain-melting collision of aesthetic modes. Review: Wes Anderson’s gorgeous ‘Asteroid City’ is more starry than stellar 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Asian Americans, readers explain to me, are hard working, family oriented, well mannered, law abiding and, as a result, have higher incomes and educational achievement. ‘Beef’ is a rare treat: A fresh take on Asian American representation 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z She recalled how her college professor, though "usually mild mannered," became "visibly and audibly anxious" as the group of scientists lost sight of one particular tornado they had been chasing in their mobile radar truck. We can't predict tornadoes with high accuracy. Scientists are trying to change that 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “Lucky Hank” works because a lot of its people feel real despite the antic setups and mannered voice-overs. Review | Can depression get playful? ‘Lucky Hank’ says yes. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z In between, a few more secrets emerge, embedded in the mannered racism and casual homophobia of the era. ‘Decent People’ review: De’Shawn Charles Winslow looks at the power of secrets 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Performers in nymph costumes flanked the doorways, moving with the mannered slowness of living statues, while toga-clad waiters wearing laurels replenished flutes and served canapés. Recession? What Recession? Pass Me Some Grapes. 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z While I wasn’t asked to write a confession, such a clever detail made it clear that I was now part of a lineage of poorly mannered guests at this haunted house. Halloween season brings out the best in L.A. immersive scene with 'The Willows' and 'Witch!' 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s too scattershot, too much in its own manic, mannered head to qualify as a coherent, much less compelling narrative. Review | ‘Amsterdam’: True-ish shaggy-dog tale from 1933 (with echoes of 2022) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z "Two of the most well mannered and lovely people who it was an absolute pleasure to have in our U15s last season," the club said. Derry drownings: Book of condolence for Reuven Simon and Joseph Sebastian 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z His mannered but gracefully posed hands perhaps indicate the delicacy required for surgical prowess, as well as his nonprofessional demeanor as an art-collecting aesthete. The 17 works of art you need to see in L.A. County 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Fielder returns with “The Rehearsal,” a somber, introspective and highly mannered take on the prank show — Comedy Central meets Charlie Kaufman. Review | Nathan Fielder continues to elevate the prank show in ‘The Rehearsal’ 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Luhrmann is moving so fast, with such mannered, overbearing self-consciousness, that Butler can barely get a hip swivel in edgewise, let alone a fully realized characterization. Review | Watching ‘Elvis’ feels like being in a washing machine for 2 ½ hours 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z But for all the mannered dialogue and crude characterizations in his earliest drafts, the screenwriter did several things right with “All the President’s Men” from the very beginning. How ‘All the President’s Men’ went from buddy flick to masterpiece “Downton Abbey: A New Era” is a chaste, mannered soap opera that feels like a relic of another time in more ways than one, but perhaps, that’s the entire appeal. ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ review: A throwback in more ways than one 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z She never spoke of her lineage, he said, but was a “very reserved, very kind, smiley and well mannered” woman who communicated mainly in English. Vladimir Putin, Family Man 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Its leader, Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, who stands out as mild mannered in a famously mild-mannered culture, fell off her seat laughing with relief. On the hunt for new viruses, this bat-trapping scientist hopes to prevent future pandemics 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s, well, stylized: theatrical, big, loud and mannered. Two years to the day after shuttering, the Actors’ Gang is back with stylized in-person theater 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Ebert wrote that Mr. Hurt “creates a character utterly unlike anyone else he has ever played — a frankly theatrical character, exaggerated and mannered — and yet he never seems to be reaching for effects.” William Hurt, Oscar-winning star of 1980s films, dies at 71 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Comparing the two trips, Chapin writes: “The Chinese were well mannered, intelligent, and curious. The Russians we dealt with were basically thugs.” Review | A Nixon aide who was Haldeman’s punching bag 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z With its numerous supporting characters, many unfortunately embodied through mannered acting, Steel’s picture spins around Levine’s superb turn of tender sensuality and suppressed rage seeking catharsis in the body of another. Review: A gay Jewish teen struggles for acceptance in 'Minyan' 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Wes Anderson is undeniably the king of kitschy quirk, an auteur of the highest order in the realm of highly mannered and fastidious filmmaking. Review: The grand letdown of Wes Anderson's boorish 'The French Dispatch' 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “It’s aesthetically and traditionally tied to a very mannered and known narrative surrounding power, dignity and beauty,” Wiley said. Kehinde Wiley commissioned to reimagine 18th century masterwork "The Blue Boy" 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “She was so sensible, so well mannered,” Suman, a downstairs neighbor, said. 9-Year-Old’s Death in Delhi Renews Protests Against Sexual Violence 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z On the other hand, he was always well mannered and humble. A Skateboarder’s Secret Grind 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z With “Gold-Diggers Sound,” Bridges leaves behind the mannered late-’50s/early-’60s revivalism of his early music, which garnered countless comparisons to Sam Cooke, in favor of a more modern, freewheeling approach. Leon Bridges craved reinvention. Living at a Hollywood dive-bar/studio/hotel helped 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z When working with Bozon, her job is to invent a character in a rather mannered mode, with a peculiar way of talking and looking, more exaggerated than authentically human. Isabelle Huppert loves to laugh: 7 of the French diva's best comedic roles 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “They looked like a regular family. He was respectable and mild mannered, a very calm guy.” They Were the Nice, Older Couple Next Door. Then the First Body Turned Up. 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z He was prematurely gray and mannered as if he were from another generation. L.A. Affairs: Why I'm so very grateful for my mother-in-law on Mother's Day 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Mitchell speculated that he was picked for the jury because he was mild mannered. Chauvin juror says guilty verdicts could have come quicker 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z He was mild mannered and amiable in court and outside it, and gladly sought settlements to avoid trials. Howard Weitzman, lawyer for Jackson, Bieber, DeLorean, dies 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z But a goofy strain of humble humanism manages to keep the self-consciously mannered house of cards from collapsing from its own pretensions. Review | Michelle Pfeiffer reigns over flawed ‘French Exit’ with mesmerizing hauteur 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z People always assumed that she was Ramona, Cleary said, but she asserted that she was far better mannered than her uninhibited creation. Beverly Cleary, popular children's book author who wrote 'Henry Huggins' and 'Beezus and Ramona,' has died 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Stanisic was an “all-around good person, quiet boy, very well mannered - respectful of others and older people - and hardworking person,” the priest said. ‘The world got dimmer’: Shooting victims’ lives remembered 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Stanisic was an “all-around good person, quiet boy, very well mannered — respectful of others and older people — and hardworking person,” the priest said. ‘The world got dimmer’: Shooting victims’ lives remembered 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Because it reached so lovingly into the mannered, structured lore of sitcoms, which were comfort food for the American TV watcher’s brain long before the word “streaming” ever tumbled into the lexicon. ‘WandaVision,’ a sitcom sendup, was a pandemic parable, too 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z The comments below were, however, rather less mannered and careful. Donald Trump fans cry betrayal as he rebukes Capitol violence 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z “I think it’s because it’s rather understated, English and well mannered, and nobody is seen in full-frontal nudity.” Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench’s Sitcom Co-Star, Is Dead at 93 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z She rules her gang of violent, poorly mannered boys with an iron fist, and she has no intention of giving up her newest family member, Jimmy. Review: A determined Diane Lane and a campy Lesley Manville elevate 'Let Him Go' 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z A gently wistful two-chord acoustic ballad, it’s notable only as point of comparison: Adele’s voice sounds noticeably mannered next to her later work. Adele – every song ranked! 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The more mild mannered he seems, the more specific his set of skills turns out to be. Review: 'Honest Thief' isn't truthful enough, despite Liam Neeson 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Not only is he far from experienced, his ideology is a million miles from that of the moneyed and mannered couture customer for whom he will be catering. Fashion archive, 15 October 1996 – Alexander McQueen, the bull in a fashion shop 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “We’re stuck with the mannered set pieces, and we’re deprived of all the lubrication or cushioning that goes on around all those things,” says Rathke, now president of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. UN diplomacy goes impersonal, but what’s lost along the way? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z He had grown weary of the mannered impulses of his Washington attorneys in Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. In Trump’s Gilded Beltway, Rudy Giuliani Finds a Potent Reward: Relevance 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z By the time readers have tiptoed and reeled in Noemí’s well-heeled shoes, the turn from mannered mystery to twisted horror will seem as inevitable as the nightmare logic of a Grimm fairy tale. The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel 'Mexican Gothic' 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Justice Scalia left a legacy as one of the court’s most fiercely conservative members, and while more courteous and mild mannered than his predecessor, Justice Gorsuch has largely echoed his legal philosophy from the bench. Gorsuch, Conservative Favorite Appointed by Trump, Leads Way on Landmark Decision 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z He was mild mannered; he didn’t fight back. Full text of Philonise Floyd's statement to U.S. Congress 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z “He certainly pushes us to achieve one more centimetre higher or an extra turn. People often talk about British dancers being controlled or mannered and that’s something I personally don’t want to buy into.” One giant leap: meet the new generation of male ballet stars 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z With his mannered and well-crafted first novel coming out after 9/11 and the Iraq war, he worries he’s been thinking too small, and a reading event offers a moment of clarity. Review: ‘The Gringa,’ at once a naif and a radical 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z “I told them, I do not want to. One is that Americans are very ill mannered,” he said, cursing Central Intelligence Agency agents who he said may be listening to him. Philippines Tells U.S. It Will End Military Cooperation Deal 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The movie around these forthright figures is modest and mannered, but accomplished with clear intent. Review: ‘The Europeans’ delivers sophistication, flirtation and sumptuous costumes 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z I just saw Rogers as lame, cheesy, mannered, fake, somewhat pretentious in talking down to children. Readers share their affection, appreciation for Mister Rogers and his widow 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z And Dr. Pierce’s mannered encouragements and observations failed to capture my ear. Review | ‘Superliminal’ review: A game where ‘perspective is everything’ “They were so big. They’re huge … but gentle, gentle giants, well mannered, well educated. They weren’t just pulling carriages. They were unique.” Former Hermitage establishment horses find new home 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But now the speaker’s orotund oratory, his mannered put-downs, his pompous, practiced, often hilarious jawing will be no more. British Parliament Speaker John Bercow bellows ‘Orrrrder!’ for the last time 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z That Norton can’t achieve the same effect on screen is symptomatic of the entire movie, a self-styled deep plunge that never gets far beyond its mannered surface. Review: Edward Norton's 1950s noir 'Motherless Brooklyn' unravels a muddled New York conspiracy 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “His physicality, his speech rhythms were all unexpected and yet totally organic. You didn’t feel like he was putting on a show or that it was mannered. He just seemed to be from another universe.” Adam Driver, the Original Man 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The season is too young and this rivalry is too well mannered for true bad feelings. Reverse: McVay’s sliding Rams face Shanahan’s surging Niners 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Such wounds — “insults,” in the curiously mannered lexicon of medicine — are almost invariably fatal, as this one had been. A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Now, here was a band that felt like a product of the new wave – short, punchy tracks, distorted guitars, a hint of arty angularity, a mannered vocalist – but that wrote incredibly polished pop songs. Ric Ocasek: Cars frontman who drove new wave into the mainstream 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z This small, mild- mannered, gray-haired man said yes, indeed, he was. James Atlas never lost his love of all things literary 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He is leading a mild mannered campaign despite attacks from the pro-government news media. Turkey: Key facts in Istanbul’s rerun election 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Despite its conservative and mannered surface, golf is a brutal sport mentally. Thomas Bjørn: ‘We are privileged with a good life but this is sport’s dark side’ | Donald McRae 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z The film starts with a promising premise, and Jones lays out the details of his main character in a carefully studied, mannered fashion. ‘Tomorrow Man’ review: Romantic dramedy loses its way, but Blythe Danner and John Lithgow shine 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z And so I do have this rather mannered and old-fashioned style. House Speaker John Bercow on Theresa May, Brexit and why he won’t leave — yet 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The film starts with a promising premise, and Jones carefully lays out the mannered details of his main character. Review: Blythe Danner and John Lithgow make an offbeat pair in ‘The Tomorrow Man’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But it’s Nyong’o who is most memorable and astonishing in “Us,” delivering a strange, mannered performance whose weirdest details become clearly motivated once Addie’s complicated history comes to light. Review | Jordan Peele’s follow-up to ‘Get Out’ will give you nightmares. But in ‘Us,’ it’s the performances that you’ll remember. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z As horror metaphors go for society’s treatment of burgeoning womanhood, it’s all fairly obvious, and regrettably heavy on the mannered acting too often associated with tales of surreal oppression. Reviews: Supernatural thriller ‘Stray,’ dystopian ‘Level 16,’ Jean-Claude Van Damme and more 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z There would be something a bit more kind of mannered or slightly harder to find. "There is no generic Africa": Chiwetel Ejiofor fell in love with Malawi for his directorial debut 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z As she looked to expand her audience, Ms. Wilson frustrated some critics with what Friedwald called her “increasingly mannered and even pretentious” string- and synthesizer-laden funk-pop romantic ballad albums of the 1980s and early 1990s. Nancy Wilson, acclaimed ‘song stylist’ who defied musical boundaries, dies at 81 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Bush spent years serving in the military, federal government and elected office before winning the White House, and he was as finely mannered and courteous as Trump is bombastic and caustic. Trump praises George H.W. Bush and his legacy, putting aside past feud with family 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The ensuing novel reads, curiously, fairly close to the Iremonger books, though it’s aimed at grownups: Its style is antique, almost mannered, with plenty of grotesques, caricatures and surreal touches. The slightly twisted vision of Edward Carey and his imagined Madame Tussaud 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Still England struggled for a while, stuck in the old mannered attacking patterns. Blooming marvellous – Gareth Southgate throws off weeds of caution 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z “It doesn’t change the job, however you look at it,” says Patti with mannered pitch and tone too nice to be real. Remembrance 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z I certainly appreciated such well mannered youngsters, and I’ll be sure to remove that sign for Halloween next year. Rant & Rave: Didn’t mean to scare off trick-or-treaters 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Leventhal’s production can often seem too mannered, so a listener appreciates the kick of someone new. Cash’s ‘She Remembers Everything’ finds her ambition intact 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Nor was there anything willful or mannered about his playing, which was consistently focused on each composer's unique sound world. Review: South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho makes an electrifying L.A. Phil debut - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “Mannered” was not a word I knew to use in high school, but mannered it was. How Tori Amos's Boys for Pele rewrote pop by daring to be ugly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “Germany are generally more mannered than Americans. This has more of an SEC football feel to it.” 'A-T-L! A-T-L!': Atlanta's improbable soccer love story 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z At the end of this mannered, occasionally fraught goalless draw Salah was one of the last players to wander off the Anfield pitch. Relentlessly wonky Mohamed Salah is like a supercar missing a wheel | Barney Ronay 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z It is an intriguingly mannered creation, without the uninhibited energy of her greatest work, but only Close could have confected such a theatrically strange figure and bring to it her unique presence. The 10 best Glenn Close movies – ranked! 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Even the witnesses who would end up in jail were well mannered, Mason said. Watergate’s unforgettable characters sit in her dining room. Does her artwork matter more in the Trump era? 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z And looking back on Tottenham’s oddly mannered defeat it seemed like a reminder of this team’s best qualities of the past two seasons. Tottenham need forward momentum to make passing from the back work | Barney Ronay 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Will win: Brosnahan, who delivers a mannered, winning performance - as a mom, naturally. Emmy predictions: ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Handmaid’s Tale’? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Her despair follows a now familiar trope in science: that in our “post-truth” society no one is listening to mild mannered science writers trading in facts and evidence. Scientists must keep fighting fake news, not retreat to their ivory towers | Fiona Fox 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z But this slow-burn thriller — whose power lies in its dark, elusive nature — delivers few genuine scares, and more mannered, nuanced dialogue than answers. Review | The director of ‘Room’ is back with another movie you won’t be able to shake 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z As ruthless as cicada killers are with cicadas, they are quite mild mannered around humans. Cicada Killer, Qu’est-ce Que C’est 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z She is also well mannered, disciplined, shrewd, and self-possessed. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Historic Win and the Future of the Democratic Party 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The waiters are mannered and friendly, dressed in suits like their boss, and move easily between the kitchen and the two dining rooms. Old School Italian in Queens: Red Sauce, Yes; Cellphones, No 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Although he is impeccably mannered and gracious, he prefers to live off the grid as much as possible. William T. Vollmann turns his mammoth talents to climate change 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Raleigh finds a far calmer mediating presence in Osborne, a gentle, impeccably mannered gentleman, magnificently portrayed by Paul Bettany, who personifies with quiet self-restraint the concept of courage as unwavering grace under pressure. Review | ‘Journey’s End’ explores leadership and self-sacrifice amid World War I 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z And there was something else under the surface, a toughness and blue-collar sincerity that spoke of bigger sonic possibilities for his folk than, say, the mannered and genteel Mumford & Sons ever pulled off. With folk roots and a hip-hop influence, Irish artist Dermot Kennedy is on the verge of breaking out 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The aesthetic is just right, but it's a bit too obtuse, mannered and affected to sink its hooks into you, and it keeps the audience at arms' length. Dead-on noir 'Los Angeles Overnight' fails to grab hold 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He's mild mannered, extremely philanthropic, is a voracious reader and is big into Settlers of Catan. Bill Gates has no idea what things cost - Golf Digest 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z She sat so upright — maybe she’d been a dancer like her mother — and was so well mannered. The ‘Ivanka Trump of North Korea’ captivates people in the South at the Olympics 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The civility and mannered discourse of yesteryear are falling by the wayside. With DACA in Limbo, Teachers Protected by the Program Gird for the Worst 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z An undercurrent to a lot of the criticism is that he is, in some ways, mannered, or false, or deliberately self-aggrandising. Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Wherever these wealthy, mannered characters' tale is set, we find their outfits extreme, their rooms overdecorated, their customs stuffy and their morals appalling — but we have no problem understanding their desires and weaknesses. Liaisons, yes. Dangerous, not so much: Antaeus revives Christopher Hampton's tale of sexual conquest – LA Times 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z This is when the fifth Beatle steps in, carefully working with the sensitive young composer to score a string quartet that perfectly captures the pathos of the melody and lyric without sounding mannered and slick. The first biography of George Martin, the Beatles’ only producer 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z This is a stark contrast with the scenes in the bar, where the dialogue suddenly sounds so mannered and showy, it feels like everyone is auditioning for a play. Review: ‘Lucky’ is a love letter to Stanton _ and his to us 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The debate that ensues here is unwinnable, and on Harding’s side, simplistic and not well served by Vance’s overly mannered and shrill Harding. Taproot’s formulaic “Relativity” questions genius over goodness 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The children of the global oligarchy are curiously bad mannered. Croatian Island Wants Tourists Who Don’t Behave Badly 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The Gingrich bob is a shout-out to a mythic Washington: a place of order and comportment, stuffy but reliable, self-conscious, mannered, impervious. Perspective | Callista Gingrich’s hair is a fabulous shout-out to a mythic Washington 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z From the mannered opening sequence of “The Sea” to its anticlimactic conclusion, the movie’s capital-L literary provenance couldn’t be more evident. A fine Ciaran Hinds stars in 'The Sea,' which struggles with its literary roots 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Instead, his performance is mannered and steadfast, evoking a man who trusts that humanity will survive fascism. Review | ‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’: Portrait of a writer in exile 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Brad's portrayal of McChrystal — mannered, weird, occasionally funny, often clueless — is divisive in its own right. 'War Machine' director on Brad Pitt, Netflix and the U.S. military 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z He is also the one that got away, a failure of recruitment made all the more galling by the fact no player in the league embodies better what this mannered, orderly late-Wenger team have lacked. Arsenal tip-toe into the Diego Zone: the ogre of Stamford Bridge awaits | Barney Ronay 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The good news is that Democrats are unanimous in their outrage, even including such normally mild mannered types such as Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who was ferocious in his criticism. Mike Pence is neck-deep in Donald Trump’s James Comey mess 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Allison, no less satisfied but much more mannered, enjoys the caesar salad, which, when she allows me to sample, gives the bisque a good run for its money on my palate. The Palm restaurant in D.C. offers ‘power lunch’ option to dine amid politicians, local celebrities 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Crucially missing is the emotional connective tissue that would turn this mannered museum piece into a drama. 'Game of Thrones' star Emilia Clarke is trapped in lifeless mystery 'Voice From the Stone' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z A departure from the mannered elite who had been elected before him, the frontiersman son of Scots-Irish immigrants was known as “the people’s president.” Trump cites Andrew Jackson as his hero — and a reflection of himself 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Plus of course there is that strange dark energy that distinguishes Costa not just from his more mannered opponents at Wembley but from your average home-reared Premier League player. Arsenal tip-toe into the Diego Zone: the ogre of Stamford Bridge awaits | Barney Ronay 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “My plea to you is not to fall for the glossy mailers presenting a mild mannered person. He is the opposite,” Lucks wrote. Twin issues of homelessness and development dominate debate in District 11 council race 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Directed by Stanley Kramer, the film was a mannered Hollywood take on an incendiary topic. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is 50 and racial tension still a problem in America 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It is the subject guaranteed to send even mild mannered golfing observers into a state of frenzy. Time to celebrate Jason Day’s talent not blame him for golf’s ills | Ewan Murray 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z And as the president-elect spends his days lashing out on Twitter, it’s a relief to retreat into the stuffy drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace, where being well mannered is part of everyone’s job description. The Personality Politics of ‘The Crown’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z His mannered intellectualism marks him as an outsider, queer in several senses, as much as any suspicions of criminal guilt do. “Rectify” Is a Quiet Marvel 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Bartirome remembers Lerner being so well mannered that “he was like a priest, almost.” The Big League Prospect Who Became a Mob Hit Man 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z In contrast to the cerebral Obama or the mannered Hillary Clinton, middle America can perhaps see a reflection of itself – loud and inarticulate perhaps, but not stupid. My journeys in Trumpland 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z I thought he would be a very special man; he is highly regarded and accomplished in his profession, philanthropic, exceptionally well mannered, interested in the arts. I'm a senior citizen. Here's what happened when I tried online dating: 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z "He was very well mannered, polite and a fantastic team player," it said in a statement. Hinckley deaths: Minute's silence for dead brothers - BBC News 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z In light of all this, I had expected to find someone a little mannered, a touch absurd in the Tom Wolfe style. Jay McInerney: 'You can only blow up your life so many times before it becomes ridiculous' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z We always cringe when seated next to children at nice restaurants, but these were quiet, well mannered and participated in family conversation, with no cellphones or video games involved. Rant & Rave: Putting on makeup driving on I-5? Really? 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z So many naive, uneducated, ill mannered people in this "greatest" country. Donald Trump, the Worst of America 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z I look across the desk at my well-dressed, thoroughly organised, thoughtfully spoken, impeccably mannered patient and ask myself how I am going to convince him that he has months to live. To sustain hope while preserving honesty is the greatest challenge in oncology | Ranjana Srivastava 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Judging by the 10-song, vanity project that is “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway,” Streisand’s musical world is a highly calculated and mannered one, characterized by oodles of false sentimentality. Review: Stresiand’s new album with Hollywood stars is uneven 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Michiko Kakutani, no mincer of words, described Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in the New York Times as “admirably purposeful but ultimately mannered and irritating.” Jonathan Safran Foer's Family Drama 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z “Café Society” is humorous, of course, and smartly satirical, but also mannered and designed to a somewhat self-conscious fare-thee-well. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’ 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Parker Posey, who keeps popping up randomly as a family friend, is breathy and mannered in a way that suggests a much wackier, broader, more forceful film. Café Society is the latest fancified peek deep into Woody Allen’s id 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Michael Gove's hindered by his newfound notoriety as the best mannered assassin at Westminster, after backing, then burying, Boris Johnson's dreams. Tory leadership: May, Leadsom and Gove bid to reach final two - BBC News 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z And 44 percent of Trump supporters placed whites as more "well mannered" than blacks, compared with 30 percent of Clinton supporters. Exclusive: Trump supporters more likely to view blacks negatively - Reuters/Ipsos poll 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “Fatalities are rare as alligators are really mild mannered compared to other crocodilians,” said Vliet. Disney World to post alligator warning signs in wake of child's death 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The birds squawked and screamed on occasion, but for the most part, they were well mannered. Peregrine falcons living on top of Westar building tagged 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z I tell executive producer Abrams that I feared the usual mannered art experiment from Franco but ended up fully invested in his predicament. JJ Abrams: ‘Star Wars fans are passionate and obsessive. And I’m one of them’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z But Tunnard's film is rawer and less mannered, more openly comic, and more agonized. If Tribeca 2016 had a theme, it might be 'adulting is hard' 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z It all looks so well mannered, this orderly line of identically sized black-and-white illustrations, and then you peer into the pictures and the familiar rude energy comes roistering out. Robert Crumb: ‘I was born weird' 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z In reality all she did was expose how poorly mannered she is. The End of Civility? 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But the judge praised the four for arriving in court as promised and remaining well- mannered as they sat there all day. 4 social workers charged after boy’s beating death 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “Mild mannered, wasn’t flamboyant at all,” Hood’s high school coach Randy Bolden said. Picked 23rd by Jazz, Rodney Hood proving to be a steal 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The peak top note isn’t crystal; the squeaks and deliberate note-breaks could easily become mannered. Coldplay, Adele, the Weeknd and more – every Brits performance reviewed 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Perhaps we can still connect with them in the evening, on formal occasions when we are more mannered or when our tone has been softened by a cocktail or two. Put away your skinny jeans. Clothes are getting big again — and it’s about time. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He was quirky and well mannered and definitely made an impression on the women, she said. Long After Bergdahl’s Release, His Hometown Is Still Under Siege 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Bryan Cranston has been nominated for an Oscar for playing Trumbo, but his mannered performance is really representative of the film's weakness. In 'Black Mass,' Johnny Depp & Co. enliven over-familiar tale of Boston crime boss 'Whitey' Bulger 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “Good morning, sir,” said an impeccably mannered gentleman in a neatly pressed British Airways uniform. What it was really like to go Mach 2 on Concorde 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Even normally mild mannered neighbors get edgy when the only parking space for 10 blocks is in play, especially if they suffered a backache to create it. The great post-blizzard parking struggle: Pleas, threats and lawn chairs 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Robert Hughes in particular scorned “the mannered, postmodern chic of his images” and labelled him a “small talent.” James Dean with a camera (and whip): Robert Mapplethorpe the film star 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The gingerbread house is the new door wreath Last year, you will recall that Instagram went crazy for a chunky, natural but highly mannered door wreath. Hessian napkins, popcorn tinsel and wholesome #squadgoals: have yourself an Instagrammable Christmas 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Taxis are metered, shop keepers are well mannered and the people you pass on the street are well dressed. A Foodie Retirement in Medellin, Colombia 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Frankly, though he is soft spoken and mild mannered, it is the height of arrogance -- let's just call it chutzpah! -- for him to even think of himself as suited for the Oval Office. Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z There is a marked and painful contrast in the footage between the articulate and well- mannered tone of Sirus Roshani and his colleagues, and the crude hectoring of the judge. Inside Iran’s Revolutionary Courts - BBC News 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z A large part of the credit goes to Fassbender and his co-stars, who turn Sorkin’s mannered, spoken arias into conversational, convincingly intimate chamber pieces. ‘Steve Jobs’ review: An impressionistic inner portrait of the Apple co-founder 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z A wolf in sheep's clothing - Geoffrey Howe was mild mannered and modest with a steely conviction. Geoffrey Howe, former Conservative chancellor, dies aged 88 - BBC News 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z But this was a mannered, polite, neat, unimposing Chelsea in a goalless first half. Chelsea humbled at home after Sako and Ward strike for Crystal Palace 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Far and away from the gritty reality of, say, Ken Loach, they are highly mannered affairs, where style is an essential component. Fantastic Mr Wes Anderson: how Tenenbaum chic took over the catwalks 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Still, the performances of high-end matadors remain overshadowed by less mannered fun. Why Spanish bulls are now deadlier 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z He is a soft-spoken, gentle ruler, well mannered and with a schoolboyish eagerness to please. The Making of a President 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Nearly all the elements, including mannered acting styles, are intentionally exaggerated. Review: ‘The Cottage’ in Northport Is a Saucy Farce 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z On the Georgia side, Columbus is genteel and mannered, with old mansions on manicured hills. Lafayette shooting: those who knew John Houser say they are not surprised 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Meticulously neat and well mannered, she possessed a sensitivity and wisdom beyond her years. 50 years later, unsolved kidnapping still haunts family 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Glynn Taylor said his son liked to run, enjoyed working on cars and was mild mannered. Shooting death of Gary man’s son pushes him into activism 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Kevin Born, the owner of Ashbury General Contracting and Engineering where Amilcar worked his day job remembers him as “a hard working, mild mannered guy” who “never got into any confrontations”. 'Shot from behind': man's death reveals hidden horror of Latino police killings 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Some rival debaters of similarly modest means saw in his mannered speaking style an effort to fit in. Ted Cruz Honed Political Skills in Princeton Debate Club 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z It’s mannered, self-conscious in a way that classic Mitchell never was, with the sentences growing longer and longer and more intricate. The People You Meet 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z He has the aquiline Barrymore nose and teardrop chin, and within thirty seconds of our first handshake he was quoting his grandfather in an affably mannered stage voice. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z He's slight and mild mannered, with a reputation for frugality. How a Conservative Oilman Was Fleeced 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In its mannered explicitness, “In Praise of the Stepmother” feels like something one prints privately and gives to a lover. Mario Vargas Llosa’s Mad Peru 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z From the silly National Lampoon’s Vacation to mannered films like A Room With a View and Lost in Translation, road trips and travel themes have long been a great movie tradition. La Sapienza: A Cinematic Homage To Baroque Master Borromini 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z According to Newsweek magazine, he is the mild mannered nerd who might decide the election. Think tank calls for Tory ad removal 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Mild mannered men and "foreign doctors" are targeted too for the type of behavior described in this article and in Medicine, when women are not allowed to speak, patients suffer. Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Why Women Stay Quiet at Work 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “I mean he wasn’t the most outgoing kid or anything like that but he was always nice and he was well mannered and worked hard for his dad a lot,” Smallwood said of Almonte. Officials: 4 in Paulding County family die in murder-suicide 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z "I mean he wasn't the most outgoing kid or anything like that but he was always nice and he was well mannered and worked hard for his dad a lot," Smallwood said of Almonte. Four Family Members Found Dead in Georgia Murder-Suicide 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z For the Saudis the mild mannered Rouhani is friendly manifestation of a regime that seeks to dominate the Middle East, and which is trying desperately to be accepted by the world. Why is Saudi Arabia using oil as a weapon? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But her wickedly acute imagination ranged widely, inserting a murder into the mannered world of Jane Austen in “Death Comes to Pemberley” and creating a bleak dystopian future in “The Children of Men.” AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EST 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z There’s an obsession with the unusual turn of phrase, and an aversion to anything that might be considered banal or mannered or extraneous. Old Books, New Thoughts 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z But they are also very patient, very respectful and very well mannered. I must master 'computer game track' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Soon after, the Guardian was escorted from what the official brochure describes as the “lofty-ceilinged Reception Hall” by an impeccably mannered security guard. Venice welcomes George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin for wedding weekend 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z “They were very well mannered, paid me really well; they trusted me,” she said. What a prostitute’s story tells us about sex and a woman’s role in the new Brazil His city was laid out and built by Italian and French architects, a city too mannered and rectilineal for Russia, a city that announced to Europe that Russia had finally emerged into resplendent modernity. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd I wouldn’t want to put these lyrics into a pop song, but they also reflect that mannered, reserved attitude. Every 2014 World Cup national anthem reviewed by a pop star! 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z In interviews, many Han business owners did not hide their animus for the city’s Tibetan residents, who they described as lazy, unhygienic and ill mannered. 4 Years After Quake, Some See a Resurrected Chinese City, Others Dashed Dreams 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z But Kane is a polarizing figure, even outside the bloviating world of online outrage, as much as it is possible for someone as seemingly mild mannered as he is to rouse strong opinions. University of North Carolina Is at Odds With a Raleigh Newspaper 2014-04-26T17:38:45Z Mr. O’Toole threw himself wholeheartedly into what he called “bravura acting,” courting and sometimes deserving the accusation that he became over-theatrical, mannered, even hammy. Peter O’Toole, Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Is Dead at 81 2013-12-15T19:08:32Z Did mild mannered Clark Kent take off his suit and tie and become a climate change Man of Steel? President Obama is talking big on climate change, but will he act? 2013-06-25T19:00:00Z If that’s so, then the renewed British invasion on our shores makes sense because media are becoming more competitive and less mannered with each passing day. The Media Equation: Britain as a Breeding Ground for Media Leaders 2013-06-23T21:32:26Z He mastered the more mannered rhythms of the Champions League. End of an era as Alex Ferguson calls time at Manchester United 2013-05-08T18:37:40Z But this is simply not what is required in the mannered tactical poke and prod of international football. Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend's action 2013-05-06T08:00:05Z Who knew a mannered, genteel parlour game could be such a minefield? The World Snooker Championship is a joy – but turn off your phone first 2013-05-05T14:02:51Z The headed goal tends to bring its own meatier emotional notes, speaking to something beyond the mannered orthodoxies of the footed goal. Cristiano Ronaldo's leap an inadvertent tribute to outlaw art of heading 2013-02-15T14:00:03Z They speak loudly and warmly to each other in an accent that alternates between a drawling slang and a polite and mannered form of address. New Orleans and the 'Super Gras' 2013-02-01T17:21:13Z This can be very frustrating for the vast majority of young people who are well mannered and do their best to be modest and keep their confidence to themselves. Young people and self-esteem: Your views 2013-01-16T00:58:01Z Yes, really, cricket: that neglected staple of the British summer, a business of mannered and weather-bound slow-wrought drama, doggedly championed but somehow always reassuringly in retreat. Cricket: The Ashes will be a show of Anglo-Aussie resistance to the global pull of Twenty20 2013-01-01T07:00:38Z The obsessively mannered etiquette, the tailoring – these men owned no other set of clothes – the sense of controlled masculine power, this was their mountain-top casino, their secret Whitehall bunker, their volcano control room. Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker's last James Bond, will surely be back 2012-11-09T19:30:55Z Dunham has gone for a less mannered and younger version of Sex and the City but the casual self-absorption is cloying and the neurotic sexual frankness strangely unengaging. Rewind TV: Newsnight; Panorama; Girls – review 2012-10-27T23:07:33Z To hear tennis fulminate with mannered righteousness about the gang culture of Los Angeles is to listen to cant turned up to knob 11. Serena Williams lets fly with volley at 'crip walk' critics at US Open 2012-08-26T18:20:34Z The louder the shouting, the more mannered and Dickensian his language became. Who is Julian Assange? By the people who know him best 2012-08-24T22:00:52Z So what riches await this impeccably mannered, 23-year-old Army captain when he returns home? Olympic Athletes May Win Gold, but a Pot of It Rarely Follows 2012-08-04T04:23:32Z Having worked their way through the level of security which is unfortunately a prerequisite for Olympic venues, even mild mannered individuals would be of a mind to shout anyway. London 2012: USA Women 4-2 France 2012-07-25T18:17:28Z What surprised me when I spoke to Dawood was that the man was very polite, well mannered, soft spoken and civil. India Ink: A Conversation With: Author and Journalist S. Hussain Zaidi 2012-07-20T12:53:57Z Be assertive NOT aggressive - too many cyclists are aggressive and bad mannered. Crackdown on pavement cyclists 2012-07-09T09:20:33Z Ironically, it was ITV itself that most effectively demolished Chiles's mannered chumminess, with Alistair McGowan's wickedly accurate impersonation, a highlight of the otherwise fairly dismal comedy show You Cannot Be Serious. BBC's Humphrey and Shearer go together like pilchards and yoghurt 2012-06-10T22:00:01Z So long as he was under the wholesome restraint of English power, he was a fair specimen of the "mild Hindoo," "as mild a mannered man as ever scuttled ship or cut a throat." From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z In other respects the picture has little merit, being stiff and mannered in the drawing and of a mixture of dull gray and salmon in its local coloring. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z This remark is particularly applicable to the figures of St. John and St. Francis: the former looks out of the picture with a fantastic action, and the drawing of his arm is even considerably mannered. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Marine pieces are among Fielding's best works, but even these are mannered. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z He leaned slightly forward as he said lowly, angrily: "You're an impudent, ill mannered little boy, and you need a spanking!" The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z Well dressed, well mannered, a gentleman every inch of him. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z It was not the literary dialect, which men of letters affected—a mannered and elaborate style modelled on the literature of ancient Greece and no longer a living speech. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Scott's verse is strongly mannered, and Turner's oil painting; but the manner of it is necessitated by the feelings of the men, entirely natural to both, never exaggerated for the sake of show. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z In contrast to the crested rat, skunks synthesize their toxins from scratch, yet they, too, have taken chemical defense to a highly derived, almost mannered extreme. Basics: These Mammals Pack a Toxic Punch 2012-01-30T19:13:25Z The fantastic and the mannered in him were as nothing, I think, to the intimately sane and straight; just as the artist was nothing to the good citizen and the liberalised bourgeois. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Conductor Edward Gardner gives a mannered performance, full of whopping great pauses and slow phrasing. Flirty Joanna Lumley Betrays Lion King Robert Lindsay in London 2011-11-18T00:37:33Z When she was singing Carmen she was the gentlest mannered gypsy that was ever stabbed by a jealous lover—a handsome Carmen but too sweet and good for anything. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z They are poor, both in drawing and colour; distinctly mannered, and devoid of simplicity and deep religious feeling. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Republican Senator Pat Toomey has a reputation for being mild mannered. Inside Room 200, home of the "super committee" 2011-11-07T10:23:21Z Even in their discomfiture our friends could not help noticing what a pretty and pleasant mannered girl the stranger was. The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways 2011-11-04T02:00:22.360Z He was real mild mannered, and he had a nice smile, and the big girls liked him. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z While on stage Mr. Corey is known for his quick wit and exchanges with hecklers, he is mild mannered in the street, usually bidding drivers farewell with a “See you later, Alligator.” City Room: Irwin Corey Begs for Money to Benefit Cuban Children 2011-10-11T11:00:24Z From the very first he cast from him all mannered tradition, and determined unflinchingly to follow natural methods. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Even the Marines – in the 58-page investigation into his death – said comrades knew Lew "as a quiet and well mannered Marine with a good sense of humor." Did Military Hazing Help Cause a Marine's Suicide? 2011-09-14T06:05:00Z She can talk, and she is well read and well mannered. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z His works were very successful, though in the mannered taste of his time. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Thou’rt a mannered lad and well spoken for one who knows not court or town. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z His pictures are mannered, but the best are vigorous, and their main defects are due to hasty execution. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Ill mannered and unkempt, An animal regards itself More frequently, indeed. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z There are duels, fancy-dress balls, horses, hats, knee breeches and bodices, but for all the highly mannered behavior on display, the overall mood is feverish, unruly and decidedly weird. A Mild-Mannered Maniac 2011-07-29T20:15:26Z He was manifestly much better educated and better mannered than the rest, as he was also much more cunning and contemptible. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z The cartoons pleased me better than the paintings, for the drawing and grouping are really fine; but the execution struck me as somewhat hard and mannered. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z They are carefully executed and rarely offend the rules of drawing, but they are all hopelessly 'mannered,' and entirely devoid of individual imagination. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z We were both mild mannered and soft-spoken; to my great relief, she shared my lack of enthusiasm for sports. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z The mass are better dressed, better mannered, better spoken than formerly. The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z Indulge in a tour of the nation's favourite local formats and drink in the mannered 50s and 60s delivery of the newscasters. TV highlights 20/07/2011: The Great British Weather 2011-07-19T22:00:01Z And as she insists, with a smile that seems impossibly unrehearsed and yet exquisitely mannered, “Style will be my style.” After Big Brother, Little Sister 2011-07-11T05:00:00Z Mozart here is nearly drained of fun and the comedy is mannered, while the deeper territories go unexplored. Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’ Recast As Grim Fairy Tale: Jeremy Gerard 2011-07-07T02:21:43Z Then he remembered himself and became polite, even 'mannered.' Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z “And the mildest mannered pony in the lot, please,” the teacher said to Tom. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z |
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