She's got useful questions and tensions in her whole presentation, between affectation and plainness, between being a kind of historian and a blank slate.
He says the difference between Cole Porter and Noël Coward is the difference between "affection and affectation".
I try to listen to what he's telling me, but all I hear is "blah blah blah tuth blah". It doesn't even appear to be part of his accent; it seems to lie somewhere between affectation and impediment.
Before I could process what was happening, Wiseau was posing with me, instructing another random fan to take the shot with my phone, while simultaneously conversing with someone else, asking, "How do you say hahaha in French?" The laugh is a strange affectation falling somewhere between an acknowledgement of irony and a stab at some form of genuine human emotion that seemed to elude him.
Before I could process what was happening, Wiseau was posing with me, instructing another random fan to take the shot with my phone, while simultaneously conversing with someone else, asking: "How do you say 'Ha, ha, ha' in French?" The laugh is a strange affectation falling somewhere between an acknowledgement of irony and a stab at some form of genuine human emotion that seemed to elude him.
My affection for this affectation comes from etiquette envy.
And Dowd nicely caught the absurdity of a man trapped between affectations of bohemianism and feeble attempts at Victorian mastery.
Squash in America seems encased in amber, a relic regarded by outsiders as something between a quirk and an affectation.
The three subsequent ads played similarly on the contrast between fresh produce offered without affectation and the Hamptons' reputation for conspicuous consumption and merchants with attitude.
The two individuals where this condition was not confirmed could either have gone unnoticed between handlings, suffered a subclinical affectation or could have been false positive results.
