Several Florentine artists tried to imitate them, and have produced works that resemble sketches: this species of mannerism is not uncommon in other schools.
They have become the mere mannerism of a clique, and the exaggerated realism of their method gives dull people bronchitis.
It is the sort of invention that would have pleased Hawthorne, and the book itself is written with the marked ethical sympathy that Wilde, in his preface, denounced as "an unpardonable mannerism of style.
The topic is treated forcibly, without the mannerism frequent among dissenters, and the rules of life enforced are not impracticably rigid.
Both as lyric poet and story-teller he is artificial; but his mannerism seldom gives the impression of affectation, it only witnesses to the almost morbid sensibility of his temperament.
But what avails the justice of a parody if, in spite of the art and care lavished upon it, it remains as tedious as the mannerism it ridicules!
But it is a very narrow view of the matter which finds in him the sole originator of the wave of mannerism which swept over the English poetry of the Renaissance.
The mannerism fades away, and the hearer learns to follow from thought to thought under the guidance of an experienced leader, whose living words he hears, whose thought he feels as it is communicated directly to him.
It is amusing to see how writers with this object in view will attempt first one mannerism and then another, as though they were putting on the mask of intellect!
Of this sort are many false theories and wrong criticisms; also poems and works of art, which exhibit some false taste or mannerism favored by contemporary prejudice.
He is, moreover, more variable in it, and inclines somewhat to the mannerism of his age.
This last artist flourished about the beginning of the seventeenth century, when mannerism began its innovations upon Venetian painting.
The Venetians, too, studied the same examples, and derived from them a certain mannerism reprehensible enough in them, but much more so in their disciples.
Eternal contemplation of manner can result only in mannerism more and more, until mannerism becomes the ruling characteristic.
We could not suffer the confidential attitude of the latter now, nor the mannerism of the former, any more than we could endure the prolixity of Richardson or the coarseness of Fielding.
It illustrates a mannerism that mars all his work.
Burke's mannerism does not appear in his early writings, and we can trace its development from the imitation of Bolingbroke to the last declamation against the Revolution.
Macaulay says that it is more offensive than the mannerism of Milton or Burke, because it is a mannerism adopted on principle and sustained by constant effort.
The spirit which animated devotional limners being long dead, any imitation of their style must be mechanical--a reproduction of its mannerism after its motives are extinct.
Footnote *120: Cimabue raising a holy war against Byzantine mannerism is an amusing spectacle.
But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is always offensive.
Few readers, for example, would be willing to part with the mannerism of Milton or of Burke.
Mannerism is pardonable, and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural.
Punch cartoon; but, on the whole, they are curiously free from undue mannerism in the types they depict.
Keeley Halswelle contributes six; in these you find (badly drawn or spoilt by the engraver) those water-lilies in blossom, which in after years became a mannerism in his landscape foregrounds.
Lastly, and above all, wasn't it a colossal libel on all womanhood to accept the strut and mannerism born of this deception as the true essentials of "womanliness"?
And if they do--must I represent the contrary, merely to please the peculiar taste of a small sad school that has no God but a second-hand mannerism bagged from dear old Europe?
Hester had been cultivating the unpleasant little mannerism of thinking aloud or rather in tones under her breath, as she wrote she read.
The likeness between her and Helen did not startle me as much as a little mannerism which I noticed in her cousin.
She had an unpleasant little mannerism of talking through closed teeth and but slightly parted lips.
This mannerism had no purpose beyond indicating to the audience the end of a passage and giving the claque the signal to applaud.
At the time they affected a dreadful mannerism of always stopping on the next to the last note of a passage, whether or not it was associated with a mute syllable.
Distinction lies in his slightest mannerism without his being conscious of the fact.
This mannerism was introduced by the pseudo-philosophers of the Universities and may be discerned everywhere, even among the first literary notabilities of the age.
Cruikshank's greatest enemy was his mannerism which may even delude the pessimist of scant acquaintance with him into the idea that it imperfectly disguises an inability to draw up to the standard of Vere Foster.
If a man can draw well in the service of science his mannerism is the accomplishment of an intention.
He was regarded in Italy as a great painter in the 18th century, and unquestionably did much to rescue the art from the intense mannerism into which it had fallen during the preceding century.
These men say things which make one start, without making one feel; they are all alike; they all know fashionables; they have all a mannerism in their eating and drinking, in their mere handling a decanter.
He however is inferior in solidity and truth of design, and displays quite as much caprice and mannerism as any of the practitioners of his time.
He possessed an irritating mannerism of continually elevating his chin and dilating his curved nostrils disdainfully in a sort of soundless sniff.
With the mannerism he affected, his left hand dragging at his moustache and his right slid between the lapels of his coat, he leaned forward and fixed his eyes full upon the hobo's battered visage.
Watteau's art betokened the triumph of naturalism over the mannerism into which the French art of the seventeenth century, based on the Italian Renaissance, had dwindled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mannerism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
