With its extravagant, cumbersome, opera-style scenery and mannered acting style, the performance seems frozen in the 1960's.

In general the ULA favors direct, vernacular writing over the more cryptic and mannered styles of the present-day academy.

Sometimes Benton idealizes, sometimes he satirizes, but his mannered style makes it hard to tell the difference.

She quietly polished her histrionic abilities and developed a mannered but effectively unique style of acting.

Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose.

Both works illustrated the intellectual fashions and favourite themes of Renaissance society - in a highly artificial and mannered style.

Lyly's mannered style is characterized by parallel arrangements and periphrases.

It is written in an extravagant and mannered style, largely based on the King James Bible, but constantly surprising with verbal turns and odd inventiveness.

They are also in keeping with the somewhat mannered style favored these days by sophisticated dressers.

When in Montmartre, he perfected a consummate cabaret turn, made up of monologues delivered in a deadpan but highly mannered style.