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1 The vivid horror of that image lingers even if the reams of talk surrounding it in Anton Dudley’s mannered play are considerably less evocative.

2 His style, once praised as daring and innovative, now seems quaint and mannered.

他的文风, 一度被称赞为大胆的和创新的, 现在看起来却是奇怪而且矫饰的.

3 No mannered accent mars Ms. Stritch’s bone-dry turn as Desirée’s elderly but by no means retiring mother, whose boudoir career in a happier heyday for romance she recounts with relish in the song “Liaisons.”

4 Her prose is far too mannered and self-conscious.

她的散文过于矫揉造作。

5 It’s all terribly mannered, sometimes tipping headlong into cliché.

6 Their video counterparts in an artful, if sometimes mannered film, by Ali Hossaini, amplify their concerns.

7 People who knew Kavanaugh said he was nice and well mannered except when he was drinking or hanging out with his friends and showed his “cocky dismissive side.”

8 Blanchett’s amusingly mannered turn is the tangiest thing here, though it’s hard to defend the surprise Golden Globe nomination she won for this.

9 Too mannered for realism and too thin for fable, it spins its wheels in a social and intellectual void filled only by Wakefield’s voice-over musings and the shadow of Doctorow’s virtuosity.

10 Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US.

在美国，心胸狭窄的官员、粗鲁的传者和没有礼貌的出租车司机也并不少见。

11 His meticulousness didn’t come off as mannered, as it sometimes does.

12 Perhaps it was the choice of roles, but Ms. Ananiashvili, famous for her naturalness, seemed to have grown a little mannered, though her technique remained solid.

13 It's a weird listening experience, to put it mildly, with Dougie creepy-calm through flowery pimpisms, his messy syllable style and mannered singsong flow meshing with budget horror pianos to sinister effect.

14 This is the mood in the wings: manic, playful, the actors being self-consciously mannered and stagey.

15 Describing it as a “cold and mannered ‘art’ western that matters not,” Mr. Wells added, “Every now and then the Coens, despite their immense talent and heavy-osity, drop the clay jug on the kitchen floor.”

16 A more serious problem, however, was that her mannered luxuriance in these effects made her look in love with only herself.

17 Later Ms. Quinn joined Ms. Fenley for a mirroring dance of Egyptian flatness and later still the two women moved together while having a conversation that was mannered in its informality: “You should eat more.”

18 But the Kylian and Forsythe works are both highly mannered and try very hard to impress, and I find just one of those in an evening is quite enough.

19 But the temporal element of cinema makes the compositions feel mannered and overly posed.

20 Mr. Hallberg, by contrast, has grown more conventional and more mannered.

1 无礼

short smart flip brutal disrespectful grumpy cocky audacious surly flippant impolite insolent impudent impertinent uncivil snippy discourteous unceremonious truculent ill-bred sauce cheek disrespect indecency insolence incivility impudence breach of propriety

2 矫揉造作

precious flowery stilted recherche preciously preciosity contrived cutesy twee histrionic mincing air slush contrivance slushy affectation cute synthetic affected stagy hokey chichi minikin kitsch sophisticate on stilts artificial airs and graces exaggerated laboured recherché theatricals histrionics too-too sophisticated baroque ornate johnsonian pose la-di-da prunes and prisms

3 别具一格的

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4 矫揉造作的

precious flowery stilted recherche contrived cutesy twee histrionic mincing slushy cute synthetic affected stagy hokey chichi minikin artificial exaggerated laboured recherché too-too sophisticated baroque ornate johnsonian prunes and prisms

5 做作的

slangy stagy artificial unnatural pretentious grandiose cutesy namby-pamby posey la-di-da poncey niminy-piminy actorly pansified faisandé

6 无礼的

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7 矫饰

affected pretentious frilly rosewater mincing chichi minikin hypocrisy frill pretension affectation theatricality pretentiousness frippery pretence big posey lace-curtain pretense

8 矫饰的

affected pretentious frilly rosewater mincing chichi minikin fine namby-pamby highfalutin big posey lace-curtain

9 不自然的

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10 不自然

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