passages … so mannered as to be unintelligible R. G. G. Price
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Recent Examples on the WebOscar Isaac stars as Steven Grant, a mild-mannered ancient history nerd who gets sucked into a deadly quest involving the Egyptian gods and the mysterious Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke). Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2022 At the Livonia Fifth Third branch, Pugh, who is normally mild-mannered, refused to back down, especially when the bank tried to keep her check, Gordon said. Antonio Planas, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2022 The track is tied to Foxx’s new Netflix movie Day Shift, in which the actor plays a seemingly mild-mannered pool cleaner named Bud Jablonski, whose actual job is hunting vampires. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022 Having failed to cut it in the city, mild-mannered Romanian cop Ilie takes a lower-pressure job as a police chief in a rural village near the Moldovan border. Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 Aug. 2022 Bianchi presents as a charming, mild-mannered and clean-cut young man who once worked as a security guard. Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Kristen Stewart plays Timlin like a more mannered . . . Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022 But her subjects, far from frantic or mindless, are productive, even disruptive, obscuring the objects of their affection with a mannered strangeness. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 June 2022 Don McKellar plays Wippett like a less mannered David Strathairn. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022 See More