The phrase "a rather affected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is pretentious or insincere in manner or style.
Example: "Her speech was a rather affected display of sophistication that felt out of place in the casual setting."
Alternatives: "somewhat pretentious" or "rather artificial".
The almost taunting way the old lady pronounced the diminutive name for this rather affected older man was disturbing, Alison thought.
"Through all those early blockbuster hits whether it's The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape or The Thomas Crown Affair, he is rather affected," acknowledges Tony Earnshaw.
Finally, our findings suggest that the BD process in the studied families is not as stochastic as generally suggested, being rather affected by positive selection on some duplicated genes and certain ecological characteristics of the species.
Another explanation for not finding a significant effect might be that the stress induced by the economic and political transformation in East Germany after 1991 rather affected fertility decisions than the SRB: Transformation in East Germany and in other East and Central European countries led women to postpone fertility [ 63].
A second flock, flock 29, also had a rather different pattern of affected genotypes (although less markedly than flock 21), most notably the occurrence of several ARH/VRQ cases, but also cases in the ARQ/ARQ and ARR/VRQ genotypes (figure 2b,c; table 3).
This research also revealed a rather high instance of the affected female subjects reporting that their mothers had also been abused.
It is also notable that the one incident cancer case in this study occurred in a male from a family with both microlithiasis and a rather remarkable family history, with four affected brothers, one of whom had bilateral disease.
The lyrics hit home, witty rather than affected: "I gave that horse a carrot so he'd break your foot," sniggers White on It's True That We Love One Another.
Indeed, clinical symptoms rather reflect affected brain regions, which is especially exemplified in the heterogeneity of clinical FTLD.
As our case subjects were ascertained through offspring rather than affected parents, differential transmission from fathers and mothers as well as reduced risk in the same-sex offspring could theoretically result from the male preponderance among type 1 diabetes cases (32).
