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Unfortunately, the movie is more mannered than moving, suggesting an ambitious director who hadn’t quite yet landed on a compelling style.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Eat the sandwich open-faced, by hand, or submit to the mannered indignities of a fork and knife.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
Donald Harris’s post, just like his daughter’s joke, was a kind of mannered performance.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
His mother was both more modern and more mannered, with a sense of social justice and a compulsion to lay out china for Christmas dinner.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Eat the sandwich open-faced, by hand, or submit to the mannered indignities of a fork and knife.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
Donald Harris’s post, just like his daughter’s joke, was a kind of mannered performance.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
His mother was both more modern and more mannered, with a sense of social justice and a compulsion to lay out china for Christmas dinner.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Mannered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mannered. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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mannered
adjective
man·nered
ˈman-ərd 
: having manners of a specified kind
well-mannered
mild-mannered
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