In some sections such mannerisms are so common and marked as to form a dialect, almost a patois, and, if a story involves a character from such a district, fidelity to fact requires the writer to write dialect when the person is speaking.
The pronunciation of no man is in exact accord with the ideal standard of the dictionary; all have mannerisms of speech and accent.
Their mannerisms of speech, which come to him through the ear, serve to build up his total impression of them as much as their physical appearance, which comes to him through the eye.
I spent two days most agreeably at Detroit, in a very refined and intellectual circle, perfectly free from those mannerisms which I had expected to find in a place so distant from the coast.
I thought that the gentlemen were remarkably free from mannerisms of any kind.
The public will only stand genius in infinitesimal doses, sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature.
Many of these tricks do not indeed belong to the fine art of singing at all; they are merely appeals to false emotion, which excite a vulgar Italian audience just as the well-worn ballad-concert mannerisms excite a vulgar audience in England.
However minutely they depict its manners or mannerisms they seldom dip beneath the surface.
Her attention was wholly taken up with her brother and Joak, whose peculiar speech and mannerisms gave her much secret delight.
He characterises his style as “over-ripe archaism,” with a slight reversion to the mannerisms of Exekias, and great attention to detail in general.
Italy, and belonging apparently to the middle of the sixth century, is marked by the extremes to which the mannerisms of the artists Exekias and Amasis are carried.
While, as I have said, Lyly's name is associated with the novel by most modern critics, it has earned a more widespread reputation among the laity for affectation and mannerisms of style.
Latimer, for example, delighted in alliterative turns of speech, though the antithetical mannerisms are absent in him.
It suffered inevitably through the influences of a taste, refined it is true, but which already inclined towardmannerisms and preciosity.
He is sincerely moved by multiramose tree forms and the sunlight effects of Provence, and his admiration for Cezanne led him into certain mannerisms which have for their object a facilitation of the Aix master's methods.
And in addition he displayed a technique so perfect in its adaptability to any expression, that its mannerisms were completely submerged in the picture's total effect.
Once he was out of sight I went to the house adopting all the style and all the mannerisms of poor Gathercole.
He rumpled his hair, a gross imitation, did she but know it, of one of his chief's mannerisms and she observed that his hair was very thick and inclined to curl.
Even at a tender age, in playing I helped to express what I felt by some of the mannerisms which I afterwards observed in great performers; I had not copied them.
There is a virility of accent and an avoidance of specific mannerisms that may often be sought for in vain in his other compositions.
It is not his fault if his imitators have reproduced his mannerisms to so great an extent.
Their genius is reflected, their mode of thought copied, and even their mannerisms are reproduced by numberless admirers and conscious or unconscious imitators.
The composer's mannerisms seem less out of place in the mouth of Manon than they do in that of Mary Magdalen.
The strange thing about mannerisms is that the speakers are usually unconscious of them, and would be the first to condemn them in others.
All mannerisms that attract attention are in the long run equally unpleasant--even unendurable to one's companions.
Literature became stilted and full of mannerisms and underwent a process of refinement which left it without strength or vigor, and society in general seemed more concerned with form and ceremony than with the deeper things of the spirit.
He had mannerisms, it is true, and much that he wrote is apt to appear stilted to the ordinary English reader, but such mannerisms are only the national characteristics of most Italian poetry and must be viewed in that light.
Greene or Peele may be responsible for the bad poetry, but there is no reason to suppose that the great poet whose mannerisms he imitated with so stupid a servility was incapable of the good fun.
The mannerisms are more pronounced and the conceits more far-fetched, but the verse is fluent, and lacks neither colour nor music.
Certain it is that the early works both of Perugino and of Pinturicchio show certain mannerisms which point towards Fiorenzo's influence, if not to his direct teaching.
There were moments, as I have described, when I warmed to Maude, moments when I felt something akin to a violent antagonism aroused by little mannerisms and tricks she had.
The inspiration came from Alonzo Cheyne, instructor in English; a remarkable teacher, in spite of the finicky mannerisms which Tom imitated.
But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
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