Maybe it's a mannerism. I don't threaten friends.

They stalk blissful couples and they study their every move and mannerism.

For many, the rise to power in Florence of the austere monk Girolamo Savonarola in 1494 1498 marks the end of the city's flourishing for others, the triumphant return of the Medici marks the beginning of the late phase in the arts called Mannerism.