Sentence examples for affected as if from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors portrayed Mr. Williams as being so sleep deprived that his reflexes were affected as if he had been intoxicated.

Whereas Ms. Rainer's dancers used to have a no-nonsense briskness, the White Oak dancers looked affected, as if they were fashion models striving terribly hard to appear casual.

He said you would have to be made of stone not to be affected, as if their plight had nothing to do with the government of which he is the deputy prime minister.

The geriatric mannerisms -- the tremor in the voice, the shortness of breath -- seem affected, as if he might throw them off any second, like the oddly biblical-looking coat he wears for his entrance.

The present case, therefore, stands precisely, so far as the constitutional questions arising in it are affected, as if it were a civil action, in which the commonwealth of Virginia was plaintiff, seeking to recover the amount due on account of the tax and penalty.

The recruitment of cells was affected as if the second phase of ChP morphogenesis was missing (Fig. 5C, F, I).

NBC parent General Electric would be affected as well, especially if it gains the media assets of Vivendi Universal, as it has been attempting.

The risk here is that if you miss a mortgage payment, their credit will be affected as well as yours ― and if you stop paying entirely, the bank will come after them.

Perinatal depression, however, can affect as many as 20percentt (which, if you look at my waiting room on any given day, is a lot of women!).

Sometimes he uses a mock-ceremonial affect, as if he were playing a particularly pompous version of Chopin's Funeral March; but what he's getting at is more subtle.

He ate dutifully, but without affect, as if some inner computer chip were responsible for the opening and closing of his lips and the gentle modulations of his throat.