mannered

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The story’s studied minor-key tone can occasionally come across as mannered, yet “Rebuilding” possesses its own delicate grace, especially once Dusty endures other losses — some personal, others more existential.

From Los Angeles Times

George Steffes, who served as Reagan’s legislative director in Sacramento, allowed as how the loudly and proudly uncouth Trump was “180 degrees” from the politely mannered Reagan.

From Los Angeles Times

It was her reading of the script, and, as you noted, the sort of mannered way that the characters spoke.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, he recognizes that his mannered Yankee conservatism has fully given way to the conspiratorial hooting of Sun Belt extremists.

From Salon

The characters are all rigorously mannered, as though they’re mimicking the mannequins in old film strips of 1950s bomb shelters.

From Los Angeles Times