Mannerism

Mannerism led to the Baroque.

Tom has a hard time hiding behind a mask because of this characteristic mannerism.

That's just a mannerism of his.

I want to learn more about Mannerism and Baroque.

Mannerism is an art style characterized by deviation from earlier Renaissance works, no longer striving for naturalism but for a certain unnatural beauty.

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.

artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism

He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”