The best way of explaining his conventionality, in which the supreme power of a master is always verging on the facile trick of a Mannerist, is to suppose that the people of Perugia and the Umbrian highlands imposed on him this narrow mode of treatment.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
The stylist is occupied with the impression which certain things have made upon him; the Mannerist is wholly concerned with the impression he shall make on others.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell
As she is a Mannerist in her acting, some think it perfect, and they say too that she is charming.
"Paris As It Was and As It Is"
Francis W. Blagdon