Roch and Sebastian and The Adoration of the Magi, characterized by an unearthly pale light, colours, and nervous, attenuated figures in affectedly sophisticated poses.
Mayne plainly applied a dictionary sense of "precious" as "affectedly or excessively delicate, refined, or nice" and none of the alternatives: "of high price or great value"; "highly esteemed for some spiritual, nonmaterial, or moral quality"; "dear, beloved".
One young woman seemed "appreciative in an affectedly sincere manner — the genuine sincerity of a person who doesn't trust her natural behavior to appear sincere".
Like Thetis, Sara has gone to some lengths to protect her son from the world of his father, a self-important, affectedly mysterious C.I.A. operative named David.
When the hip and affectedly unaffected get hold of something that belongs culturally to another group, excitement abounds as they then excitedly co-opt it and an open display of competition is set in motion.
The rest of his fourth album similarly serves as a regretful look back and a fresh start; to the latter end, the musical direction owes much to co-producer Skrillex, whose unexpectedly subtle electronic palette complements Bieber's affectedly breathy voice.
Given the content available and the affectedly simple presentation, it's hard not to see the new Sarah Palin Channel as simply a moneymaking enterprise.
There, too, was Maggie Smith – seen one moment on film rolling a wine glass across her forehead as the affectedly sexy Myra in Coward's Hay Fever, the next moment present in the flesh to deliver a speech from Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem with unadorned simplicity.
Emerson's prose style could only have been developed out loud, and for the purpose of persuading (or, at least, entertaining) an audience he careens back and forth in playful, liquid, rollicking sentences of varying lengths; he runs cool, then hot, then affectedly bored, sometimes within the space of a single phrase.
I glanced out the window to make sure all was well at our one table — and what did I see but an unshaven, affectedly detached post-hipster in gold-rimmed Ray-Ban aviators, six-hundred-dollar jeans, and a boutique screen-printed white Henley that stretched like a heterosexual sonnet to itself across his care-begotten pectorals.
The attraction for artists of the ballpoint pen has grown over the years, particularly in affectedly informal contemporary drawing.
