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37 examples of Mannered in a sentence

By promoting those values, the movie comes across as mannered, if not preachy.
Matt Dillon, a fine, intense actor is totally miscast here and is stiff and mannered.
I try to revisit the main film locations in Oakworth and Oxenhope whenever I can, which help to re-establish those magical qualities that this film seems to embody so uniquely - recalling a gentler and more mannered age, with its unspoken assertions that people really do matter, that family life is not just another disposable, and that life really is worth living (though sometimes, we may doubt that).
Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey, Addams Family Values) wrote this frothy tale of a mild mannered school teacher (Kevin Kline) who is outted on the Academy Awards by a former student-turned-actor (Matt Dillon).
The character's eagerness to feed Milland and look after him more closely resembles the good German hausfrau Dietrich was off the set than her mannered vamp roles.
The film is very atmospheric, the extremely mannered and polite courtly ceremony and ritual contrasted with sudden brutal violence.
In other words, because he is so quiet and mannered, when he does bad things you tend to notice.
That a figure of providence and salvation would work to match Verne (Clark Gable at his most cockily mannered and self-regarding) and Julie (Joan Crawford, snarling and spitting out every other word in an attempt to be the Queen of Tough Dames) seems ludicrous at best.
It's all as mannered as Welle's godawful Irish brogue; which takes a lot of effort, but adds absolutely zero to the film.
But it's a stilted affair, with its strange, painted backdrops and mannered conversational tone.
So what a drag to discover their talents wasted on this mannered, pretentious lark.
Harris's Peachum is embarrassingly mannered and Polly is atrocious.
Then you hit the last third and everything starts to get increasingly silly until you've got a killer with a flashlight strapped to his forehead threatening to fillet Sean Connery's wife (a typically mannered and unconvincing Kate Capshaw) and kid (a very young Scarlet Johannsen) in an alligator skinner's shack.
The effect achieved in this story about a psychiatrist who becomes involved with con artists is so mannered that I have to assume that that was the desired intent.
Annette Bening (whose acting was touted as being Oscar worthy) comes off here as mannered, with her performance seeming routine.
Old Jane's mannered tale seems very popular these days.
This TV mini-series gives it a mannered telling suitable to the novel.
Greg Kinnear is an awesome straight man, as his role as a mild mannered man from Denver, who starts a innocent conversation with Pierce at a Mexican bar.
Fido is a story about more well mannered zombies who have been trained to serve the human race.
Jeremy Northam's characterization of the stuttering, mild mannered bookish Morgan Sullivan and watching him let loose bits and pieces of his real identity under the influence of single malt scotches and under the spell of Lucy Liu's presence is brilliantly crafted and a joy to watch.
Laugh as the characters trash Lacey's wooden performance in bad summer stock, uttering criticisms equally applicable to this film and their own clumsy, mannered acting!
Elsa Zylberstein gives a very irritating, mannered performance.
The lady is grateful, but rejects Mr. Fenton's more mannered advances.
The acting was non-existent, the lead actor was tragically mannered, wooden, and frighteningly bad.
A creepy tale of a factory whose cat food transforms mild mannered felines into man-eating beasts.
The Actor playing Aramis turned in a fine performance as did the actress playing Anne of Austria.The Duke of Buckingham was as in the novel a goodlooking man but by no means mild mannered.Buckingham had a temper was a womanizer,socialclimber and ambitious and by no means a coward.
The acting was a little mannered.
Walter Matthau co-stars as the Bears' drunken and slovenly mannered manager.
Marilyn Monroe-watchers will be disappointed by MM's lack of sparkle here; she certainly looks lovely but seemingly has no connection to this part, and no chemistry whatsoever with mannered Olivier as the starched, though not entirely humorless, royal.
As the squire who is the full-figured mastermind behind a gang of murderous wreckers on the Cornish coast, Laughton sports the latest dandyish fashions, a false nose, false eyebrows which almost have lives of their own, a carefully coifed comb-over, a piggish over-bite and line readings that would make Bette Davis at her most mannered envious.