How To Use Affectation In A Sentence

There must be some better way to communicate with the kitchen so I take it to be an affectation, the other one being that although the food is already plated up when it arrives, it is served from a foldaway side table.
Thankfully it also comes across as an actorly affectation and isn't written into the character's story.
thinking it was some kind of actorly affectation like Tom Cruise is bucking for awards! Mike talks to Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, co-writers of VALKYRIE | Obsessed With Film
-- Why have you bedizened yourself in that fashion? "he asked, with an affectation of 'brusquerie', as he tried to recover his power of speech. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Stack's taste and style were admirable yet always unpretentious, with no trace of affectation or competitiveness. Times, Sunday Times

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They do not hesitate to dress idiosyncratically, speak dramatically and in general cultivate affectations that would be bizarre in most other professions.
Will we at last forget ourselves result from the continuous affectation.
In a lesser artist and person, we might have suspected mere affectation, or an attempt at playing the reluctant genius.
Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. December 7th, 2005
He doesn't use correct punctuation, and I think it may be more affectation than lack of education.
A veiy good rebuke of affectation, said Six – Charles (and your ladyship hints it was an effica — cious one). Sir Charles Grandison
You resent, it seems, what you are pleased to term my affectation of intimacy, and you beg for a style of greater respect in any future communications. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891
She was garbed in white—her constant affectation—and did not turn until I entered and closed the door behind me. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation, but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
This street-inspired affectation is best worn with a superchic designer watch. Times, Sunday Times
“Let me not,” said he, “waste my compassion upon nothing; compassion is with me no effusion of affectation; tell me, then, if thou deservest it, or if thy misfortunes are imaginary, and thy grief is factitious?” Cecilia
-- Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
Oh, and the singer's adenoidal yelping isn't an affectation.
Ri smiled and decided to drop her officious speech affectation.
The composition of personal lyric was a secondary consideration for the bard, an affectation for pleasure and reflection.
When I started staying in hotels I assumed that diagonally sliced toast was some kind of catering affectation.
And a waiting moment was enough - she and I yet again flinging every possible limit aside, deciding on all manner of pretense and affectation.
Not but what I know ladies of a certain description often have birds, but then their fondness is all affectation and fashion; but this poor thing was all nature. Belinda
Je n'oublierai jamais l'expression divine de ses traits; c'était l'air serein de la puissance et du génie, et suivant moi, Lord Byron n'avait, en ce moment, aucune affectation à se reprocher. "] ***** Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
They've toured with both The Strokes and The Dandy Warhols, but don't let that fool you into thinking they're into sharp image-manipulation or limp boho affectation.
There are no actressy affectations, no gush about wanting to adopt her fellow actors because they're all just… ‘so incredibly divine’.
Surrounded by people who were disinclined to take her seriously, the columnist abandoned the queeny hauteur and theatrical affectations that have been her television trademarks.
The peculiar affectation of his style occasioned the invention of the word marivaudage, to express the way of writing of him and his imitators. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
In another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
Notwithstanding all exaggeration, Lylly was really a man of wit and imagination, though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page.] -- he, in short, who wrote that singularly coxcomical work, called _Euphues and his England_, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and his reputation. The Monastery
But outsiders might find his pronounced mannerisms and affectations odd, and thus they might reject him.
This is unfortunate, since he has usually been immune to such literary affectations.
The inhabitants seem insensible to these impressions, and are apt to imagine the disgust that we avow is little better than affectation; but they ought to have some compassion for strangers, who have not been used to this kind of sufferance; and consider, whether it may not be worth while to take some pains to vindicate themselves from the reproach that, on this account, they bear among their neighbours. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
I heartily disliked all the affectations which had been introduced by the dandified fops. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
Stack's taste and style were admirable yet always unpretentious, with no trace of affectation or competitiveness. Times, Sunday Times
‘This is perhaps the creator's message,’ continued my vegetarian friend with the pious affectation.
He called his poem a "romaunt," and his valet, poor Fletcher, a "stanch yeomán," and peppered his stanzas thinly with _sooths_ and _wights_ and_ whiloms_, but he gave over this affectation in the later cantos and made no further excursions into the Middle Ages. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation, but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
I think a lot of characters start in affectation and then build from there. Collecting characters
This hint at rags is a fashion, or affectation, that I find offensive.
He apparently took keen pleasure in holding up to ridicule and in satirising, what he was pleased to call his ponderous pedantries, his solemn affectation of profundity and wisdom, his narrow-mindedness, and his intolerable and transparent egotism. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
The meanness surfaces as he becomes more successful - his moustache, initially the affectation of a hick, becomes minatory, even forbidding.
Despite her irritating affectations, she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts.
'These common people are most insolent,' said Bell, with an affectation of fine ladyism. The Bishop's Secret
Will we at last forget ourselves result from the continuous affectation.
But true appreciation of wine derives from the realization that it is meant to be shared with those around us, without pretense or affectation, in proper measure, and as an enhancement to our lives.
(a sentence to which Scott's description of him as “a man of great genius” may be successfully opposed); and is especially severe on what he terms his affectation in disclaiming the compliments bestowed on his learning by some of his friends. Letters of Horace Walpole 01
Though it's possible to gain some of the benefits of bizarrerie with an umbrella, the true aspirant to affectation's highest lists will employ a device that is unserviceable, in fact ruined, in actual weather conditions. Jilly Gagnon: Makeover For Summer...Affectations!
The best writers in this kind were Middleton and Dekker -- and the best play to read as a sample of it _Eastward Ho! _ in which Marston put off his affectation of sardonical melancholy and joined with Jonson and Dekker to produce what is the masterpiece of the non-Shakespearean comedy of the time. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
In person, the Libertines charm rather than irritate, because all their eccentricities and affectations are clearly so deeply felt.
Donald's love of sport was not some kind of affectation designed to bring him street credibility in constituency walkabouts.
Zeno used to invite those who called the haughtiness of Perikles a mere courting of popularity and affectation of grandeur, to court popularity themselves in the same fashion, since the acting of such a part might insensibly mould their dispositions until they resembled that of their model. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations
Apparently, however, she had something else in her head; for as, after a brief affectation of reluctance, she permitted Peveril's face to approach hers, she whispered in his ear, "Beware of trepans! Peveril of the Peak
I have to assume that in Ulin's reference to "playing games" he is taking a swipe at postmodernism, using the same stale cliche those critics who want to valorize the "engagement" of writers like Mailer and Johnson in contrast to the aesthetic affectations of formalists and metafictionists always seem to use. Saying Something
They are mostly graceful love-tales, sweetly told, without affectation or effort, and derived from Celtic originals, some being of Armorican and some of Welsh descent. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
Coincidentally, I already use the spelling "theatre" - when I in theatre, it was an affectation we all used, and it stuck. In labor we trust
Her posh accent is pure affectation.
Despite what many of your comrades believe, showering is not just a middle class affectation.
I see no objection to its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes set were addicted. Swann's Way
Perhaps this second variety is not style at all, but affectation.
-- At the close of the seventeenth century, a new dawn arose in the history of Italian letters, and the general corruption which had extended to every branch of literature and paralyzed the Italian mind began to be arrested by the appearance of writers of better taste; the affectations of the Marinists and of the so-called Arcadian poets were banished from literature; science was elevated and its dominion extended, the melodrama, comedy, and tragedy recreated, and a new spirit infused into every branch of composition. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
To spend too much time in studies is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar, nor natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study and studies themselves give forth directions much at large except to be found in by experience. Education: A Canadian Priority and A Provincial Responsibility
Bien narrer is an object of their study; and though they sometimes carry it to affectation, they never sink into inelegance, which is much the worst extreme of the two. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Simplicity and genuineness were the foundation-stones of her character, and she certainly dispensed with many of the useless conventions of society, but she was a serious-minded woman for whom the cheap affectations generally labelled as "bohemianism" could have no attractions. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
It is so hard for them not to fall into affectations of either virtue or vice, or into some 'devilment' worse still. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
I will simply assure you, that meaning to begin work in deep earnest, _begin_ without affectation, God knows, -- I do not know what will help me more than hearing from you, -- and therefore, if you do not so very much hate it, I know I _shall_ hear from you -- and very little more about your 'tiring me.' The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
So little of the fop; yet so elegant and rich in his dress: his person so specious: his air so intrepid: so much meaning and penetration in his face: so much gaiety, yet so little affectation; no mere toupet-man; but all manly; and his courage and wit, the one so known, the other so dreaded, you must think the petits-maîtres Clarissa Harlowe
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.” How to Write Conversationally | Write to Done
Not every American politician could manage this, without affectation.
But there's a lot more of John Lennon's pensive melodicism than Paul Simon's simpering folkie affectation in Smith's music.
He's a garrulous paterfamilias who has somehow picked up the incongruous metropolitan affectation of a stubby cigarette holder.
It was a graceful and characteristic attitude, and it seemed to him affectation -- a piece of her fine-ladyism. Eleanor
She struggles for no kind of chimerical credit, disclaims the appearance of every affectation, and is in all things just what she seems, and others would be thought. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
He has the entire arsenal of film-making at his disposal, but can't seem to snap out of a now-habitual mode of vitality-erasing, dewy-eyed affectation. War Horse – review
This will certainly not vindicate socialism as an economic system, nor anti-bourgeois hauteur as a cultural affectation. The Times Literary Supplement
While Greek love is not a sentiment, it may be sentimental, that is, an _affectation of sentiment_, differing from real sentiment as adulation does from adoration, as gallantry or the risking of life to secure favors do from genuine gallantry of the heart and self-sacrifice for the benefit of another. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Clare Maguire Ain't Nobody (Breakage Remix) (Polydor) I once worked with a lady who spelled her name Klaire ( "Klaire with a K" was her mantra) and though this seemed an odd affectation for someone who worked in a call centre, you can't help thinking that a similar conceit would help distinguish Clare Maguire from the legion of identikit pop ladies we apparently should be looking out for in 2011. This week's new singles
But in the end, their gluttony, loneliness, and affectations - their rabid humanity is what interests me.
He plays the guitar in an Irish band (it isn't a politician's affectation: they've been going for 20 years).
Every ones natural genius should be carryd as far as it could; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain; and what is so plaisterd on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
Being paid for their physical affectations on the altar, a plentiful supply of altar boys to sodomise and the company of like-minded perverts is surely one of the more colourful swan songs of the Christian era. The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
She knows that this assumption of spiritual beadledom is mere affectation, and that other minds have as much right to their own boundary lines as she claims for herself; but it seems to her pretty to assume that woman generally is the consecrated beadle of thought and morality, and that she, of all women, is most specially consecrated. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
Lady (pseudonym, don't you think?) lies the Country of Eligibleness, and within it, the cliffside Land of Love of Admiration ( & Vanity) as well as the "High grounds of Matrimonial," camouflaged by the sheer drop into Land of Coquetry where one encounters "Male Traps: Province of Deception," "Affectation," and "Valley of Mother's Artifice. Suzanne O'Malley: Day 14 of 29: Secrets to the Map of a Women's Heart
These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
They were pedantic disciples who united with all the affectations of the Italian style a certain German coarseness, and the outcome was a bastard style inferior to the earlier schools -- childish, stiff, and crude in color, with no sense of light and shade. Holland, v. 1 (of 2)
He may ladle on the mannered affectations but they're laced with a really spiky humour.
Bergotte is what I call a flute-player: one must admit that he plays on it very agreeably, although with a great deal of mannerism, of affectation. Within a Budding Grove
Hill watched the clock hands until two minutes remained; then he opened the book of answers, and, with hot ears and an affectation of ease, gave his drawing of the lenticel its name. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
Call it affectation if you will, it's still particularly well done.
Her dignity became a stilted manner, her social supremacy led her into affectation and sentimental over-refinements; she queened it with her foibles, after the usual fashion of those who allow their courtiers to adore them. Two Poets
But it is still observable that with all his changes of position, he never assumes the upright or a fraudful affectation of dignity. Sketches New And Old
So my conclusion is that as a vocal affectation, Jackson pronounces it with a soft C.
Fifty years old and self-made, likes to dress when not obliged to be togate in a full-length robe of Tyrian purple, and full of detestable affectations of speech and manner. Fortune's Favorites
He speaks with a British accent, but that is just an affectation because he's not British.
'Bien narrer' is an object of their study; and though they sometimes carry it to affectation, they never sink into inelegance, which is much the worst extreme of the two. Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
I figured that since the word was calligraphed with such emphasis and affectation, I had to be missing something.
Despite her irritating affectations, she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts.
It is a scene utterly devoid of affectation or self-importance. Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, you must carefully shun the affectation of _bombastic diction_ -- it is lamentable to see a preelucidated theme rendered semidiaphonous, by the elimination of simple expression, to make room for the conglomeration of pondrous periods, and to exhibit the phonocamptic coxcombry of some pedant, who mistakes sentences for wagons, and words for the wheels of them. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
Mr. Moncton laughed at what he termed my affectation of moral integrity, and tried by every art to seduce me to join in amusements, and visit scenes, from which my mind revolted; and his own example served to strengthen my disgust. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I
Thinkest thou there has been no offensive assumption in laving aside the character of a mother and a wife, and adopting that of one of those brain-sick female fools, who, like the bravoes of the other sex, sacrifice every thing that is honourable or useful to a frantic and insane affectation of courage? Count Robert of Paris
Why carry such a ridiculous affectation? Times, Sunday Times
Choose your phony accent, your affectation, the Stetson of country or the hoodie of rap.
It was not with real pleasure, but with an affectation of cordiality that Anna received her husband when he reached the _datcha_. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
But showing off is one thing, and vanity is another, and envy is a third, and affectation is something else.
Incidentally, the above use of ‘martyr’ was no exaggeration or melodramatic affectation.
Its Literature and Art have what one might call the kink of the unseen about them, and this persists even through decadence and affectation. Howards End
Will we at last forget ourselves result from the continuous affectation.
I come, now, to the silence of affectation, which is presently discernible by the roving of the eye round the room to see if it is heeded, by the sedulous care to avoid an accidental smile, and by the variety of disconsolate attitudes exhibited to the beholders. Cecilia
The musical backing is similarly bare of affectation and broken down to a number of small elements, pushed to the limits of their effectiveness.
Editors are likely to suggest nuanced typographical layouts based on the seriousness or whimsicality of the work in order to evoke a specific affectation on the reader.
Now, it’s cute that Miley shows up in a cravat and acts like he’s the offspring of AA Gill and Boris Johnson, but affectation is wearying. Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times
These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
Yet years so different 1 But austerity, uncharitableness, on one hand; os-tentation, affectation, on the other; these are quaU — ties which can have no place in his heart. Sir Charles Grandison
Well, you have a list of stuff earlier than that, but it was that -- I just wanted to ask you, when people write you and talk about the tilt and your presence on the set or your so-called affectation of a British accent, do you know that that's the way you look to people on the outside? Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist
Though he is quite comfortable quoting Heidegger, he is the antithesis of a Heideggerian - uninterested in medieval agrarianism and utterly unpossessed of any religious affectation about the nature of work. Enowning
And I have no idea how his literary affectation translates into “journalism” of any sort. Taking the pajamas off « BuzzMachine
Yet this monarch of all things detested pedantry, either as it shows itself in the mere form of Greek and Latin, or in ostentatious book-learning, or in the affectation of words of remote signification: these are the only points of view in which I have been taught to consider the meaning of the term pedantry, which is very indefinite, and always a relative one. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Your aim should be to speak as educated people you admire speak, clearly and without affectation.
First names are not used, a classic public school affectation.
Will we at last forget ourselves result from the continuous affectation.
I do not think it is uniformly conspicuous [Y] for quaintness, or that there is much that can be called affectation; though occasionally an excess of brevity has proved too tempting, or the desire to individualize runs away with him. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
Will we at last forget ourselves result from the continuous affectation.
She had no affectation; what she said was honest and ingenuous, and she talked good sense. TESTIMONIES
This pretty particularness might seem an affectation, but he says he was like that as a kid, when to set himself apart from his brother he would claim proprietorial rights to food and TV programmes.
For me, Tejas (with a Mexican, not Spanish jota -they sound pretty different) is kind of an affectation in English, but I can use the adjective Tejano (more or less like in Mexican Spanish though it won't normally take any inflection) which refers (not exclusively) to hispanic things in Texas. Languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION WARS IN TEXAS.
He raised his eyebrows with an affectation of surprise.
Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government. A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
The Authors seemed to search for Opportunities to introduce hints and sarcastical Allusions to the frivolities, Vanity, Affectation, follies and prejudices of their own Nation. John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778
He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation, but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
In a few minutes afterwards, the two Peters were seen moving through the Parliament Close (which new-fangled affectation has termed a Square), the triumphant Drudgeit leading captive the passive Peebles, whose legs conducted him towards the dramshop, while his reverted eyes were fixed upon the court. Redgauntlet
With his gentle disposition – the impeccable manners seem second nature rather than an actorly affectation – you rather wonder how Redmayne will cope with the spotlight. Eddie Redmayne: the loneliness of being a hot young actor
Apart from his own conscience, the writer will be curbed from falling into mannerism and affectation by the nature of his audience and, often, by the significance of what he has to say.
In everything that Mr. Smith attempts, in all his "bravura" passages, serious or comic, one is always shocked by some affectation or absurdity; something in direct defiance of all those principles which have been established by the authority of the best critics, and the example of the best writers: indeed, bad taste seems to be Mr. Smith's evil genius, both as to sentiment and expression. Famous Reviews
Indeed, so emphatic is his artistic and, with it, social affectation that, when the novel's title character calls him a cook, he takes this as an affront to his honor: 'I am Chevalier de Juillet,' said [Mirobolant] ..., slapping his breast, 'and he has insulted me .... Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
Her posh accent is pure affectation.
Fast food, the gas station (as we knew it until the 1980's), the neon sign, and the motel to name but a few, are the affectations of the early highways.
They are seldom, accordingly, disagreeable, with us, to the eye of the most cultivated taste; their singularity forms a pleasing variety to the continued succession of lawns and shrubberies which is every where to be met with; and they are regarded rather as the venerable marks of ancient splendour, than as the barbarous affectation of modern distinction. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
The actor's affectations are little creepy at some points, but overall, I love the job he did.
In his letters of this period I detect a kind of callowness and affectation which is not discernible in his foreign letters and journal. Washington Irving
She discusses contemporary poetry with a lack of affectation not always apparent in the original work. The Times Literary Supplement
But perhaps _imponed_ is pledged, _impawned_, so spelt to ridicule the affectation of uttering English words with French pronunciation. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
But these techniques are not stylish affectation.
On a record composed of cinematic affectations, how much of the feeling is real?
Sensible of his father's humble, but yet respectable position, he neither attempted to swagger himself into importance by an affectation of superior breeding or contempt for his parent, nor did he manifest any of that sullen taciturnity which is frequently preserved, as a proof of superiority, or a mask for conscious ignorance and bad breeding; the fact being generally forgotten that it is an exponent of both. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
In place of the old loose-footedness there is set up a preciosity which, in one direction, takes the form of unyielding affectations in the spoken language, and in another form shows itself in the heavy Johnsonese of current English writingthe Jargon denounced by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his Cambridge lectures. Chapter 1. Introductory. 5. The General Character of American English
“I see no objection to its being old,” the Princess answered dryly, “but whatever else it is it’s not euphonious,” she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Swann's Way
But here, where many native flowers have no popular names at all, and others are called confessedly by wrong ones, -- where it really costs less trouble to use Latin names than English, the affectation seems the other way. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
This, unfortunately, tended to manifest as an often crudely expressed affectation of superiority.
Names drop from her lips without a hint of affectation.
Ironic postures, become her target every bit as much as sentimental affectations of feeling.
Simplicity he holds to be "our barrier against that great enemy to truth and nature, affectation, which is ever clinging to the pencil, and ready to drop and poison every thing it touches. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
I have the Bath volume [7] printed. & expect fifty copies tomorrow or next day. you should have one were not the expence of sending it more than adequate to the pleasure you would receive — pshaw — this is an affectation unworthy of me — you will like them because they are your brothers — & I will send them. do we not understand the flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication [8] of money? Letter 106
She possessed the genius of music, which is melody, unweakened by those exaggerated affectations with which it is often encumbered by what is pretendingly called science. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
They had, for whatever did not form part of their group, no affectation of contempt; their genuine contempt was sufficient.
Each of the performers is distinctive because of his or her unique appearance or affectation.
This was no mere affectation. Times, Sunday Times
She discusses contemporary poetry with a lack of affectation not always apparent in the original work. The Times Literary Supplement
They charm rather than irritate, because all their eccentricities and affectations are clearly so deeply felt.
The literary affectation called euphuism was directly based on the precepts of the handbooks on rhetoric; its author, John Lyly, only elaborated and made more precise tricks of phrase and writing, which had been used as exercises in the schools of his youth. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
With flamboyance and little affectation, she explained the functions and advantages of optical fibre communication.
His work was lucid, direct, perceptive and totally without affectation.
Green plays softball with James's affectations, while Culkin minces through a selection of costume changes.
But true appreciation of wine derives from the realization that it is meant to be shared with those around us, without pretense or affectation, in proper measure, and as an enhancement to our lives.
So long as the nation shall not fortify itself, by the arts of affectation, against nature and passion, the repre* dentation of this tragedy and the ** Orphan, '' will still be attended with applause, and the perusal with delight. Titus and Berenice, a tragedy, acted at the Duke's theatre. With a farce called the Cheats of Scapin
All this raises the question of whether it is an affectation for a musician to express scorn for the turning cogs of commerce. Times, Sunday Times
And a waiting moment was enough - she and I yet again flinging every possible limit aside, deciding on all manner of pretense and affectation.
Begin disliking arrogance is proud, and hate sharp-tongued person, hate affectation outfit innocent people hate those who makes me feel sick.
No one must be different from himself in voice, clothes, manners, recreations, choice of food: Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation. Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
The old-fashioned spelling was "chymist," and there are still one or two shops in London where this spelling holds, but I think it's affectation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914
Surely even most conservatives cringe when they see this type of ridiculous affectation.
No one must be different from himself in voice, clothes, manners, recreations, choice of food: Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation. Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
Too many of their 20th-century predecessors saw opera as a bourgeois affectation, too superficial for their aesthetic philosophy. Times, Sunday Times

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