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Definition of Manneristic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manneristic
Literary usage of Manneristic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Questions on the Philosophy of Art by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1897)
"What is the important difference between ' conventional' and ' manneristic ' ?
Does a conventional design in Decoration mean the same as the conventionality ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"Constable had a technique of laying on colors which was manneristic, ... With them
this becomes a mere manneristic trick, being presented without any ..."
3. Richard Wagner and the Style of the Music Drama by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1897)
"The music and musical tone ought never to lag, or suddenly drop or rise, especially
in a manneristic way, as it often did in the opera, where the passage ..."
4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"Meanwhile, the marbles of Bandinelli and Ammanati, the manneristic productions
of Montelupo and Montorsoli, the slovenly performances of Vasari, ..."
5. The Book Collector: a General Survey of the Pursuit and of Those who Have by William Carew Hazlitt, Hector Carsewell Macpherson (1904)
"The time came, however, when the Scots acquired a school and style of their own,
and all that can be pleaded for it is, that it is manneristic and peculiar. ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... than is usual with his contemporaries, whose styles are, so far at least as
essential attributes are concerned, comparatively uniform and manneristic. ..."
7. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"As an evidence that not all representatives of the Asian school of oratory were
manneristic or monotonous by reason of limiting themselves to a few ..."
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