But in some ways this was a mannered performance.

This is a beautiful, if mannered, performance - down to the two graphite drawings that look as if they had been embroidered in cross-stitch.

He seems to be avoiding eye contact with all the other actors, while, in her exceedingly mannered performance, she appears to be trying to stare everyone into submission.

Mr. Ortiz gives a mannered performance, built on a fixed, all-accommodating smile and semaphoric hand gestures, and this strategy doesn't let his character grow.

As the suburban housewife turned radio psychologist, Ms. Kahn delivered a dazzlingly mannered performance of a brand-name-conscious Jewish matron.

You could even say that with his irresistibly mannered performance, he mops the floor with Mr. Hare's play.

It's understandable that Mr. Baldwin would want to avoid copying Barrymore's manic, flamboyantly mannered performance.

In the past she has been criticized for what some critics called a lack of spontaneity, an overly mannered performance.

In some of his recordings, this attention to detail has resulted in mannered, tense performances.

Ms. Chapman, who unlike Ms. Pashalinski bears little physical resemblance to her character, gives a more obviously mannered performance.