They have blunt speech mannerisms, and often do not reveal too much about themselves or their motives.

Carlono's thoughts were diverted from consideration of her speech mannerism to appreciation of her.

"It is said ..." What a curious speech mannerism they have here.

This is a speech mannerism akin to praying, or to memorizing.

The only problem is that he affects a speech mannerism that at times makes his dialogue difficult to understand.

Well, Jube never did anything without a reason; Jake went along without commenting on speech mannerisms.

Deegie thought she might never lose that speech mannerism, and rather hoped she wouldn't.

She spoke the name aloud, but her speech mannerism, her peculiar accent, was much stronger when she said it.

Dostoevsky uses different speech mannerisms and sentences of differing lengths for different characters.

They are speech mannerisms that people who have lived across the Mexican border for a couple of generations have adopted.