Sentence examples for affecting an air from inspiring English sources
Mario Lavista's "Lacrymosa" preceeded it, affecting an air of mystery but, for my ears, all too conscious of its own cleverness, too busy with its audience seduction.
Variously kneed, niggled and shirt-pulled as Sunderland persistently fouled him, the Chilean appeared impervious to such disincentives, typically affecting an air of utter disdain before delighting in wrong-footing Lamine Koné, Papy Djilobodji and company once more.
Affecting an air of the grand inquisitor, Sebastian imperiously orders Jocelyn to "send this fax to Galliano's buttonist's boyfriend's stylist in Monaco," as if he were directing a secret bombing mission over the Middle East.
David Merrick, the most powerful producer ever, seemed to know his role, affecting an air of near total indifference, speaking to everyone as if that particular conversation were the biggest waste of time he could imagine.
When a not-so-careful writer tries to gussy up his prose with an upmarket word that he mistakenly thinks is a synonym of a common one, like simplistic for simple or fulsome for full, his readers are likely to conclude the worst: that he has paid little attention to what he has read, is affecting an air of sophistication on the cheap, and is polluting a common resource.
/ He affected an air of sophistication to impress her parents.
The students affected an air of boredom – nothing was worth making an effort for.
But the Bush campaign tonight affected an air of utter unconcern at the Gore camp's latest move, and the prospect of a messy contest period.
They were aware how much he detested batsmen, some famous, who affected an air of innocence when they knew well enough that they had got a touch.
His Richard, with his brocade gown and Christ-like hair, initially affects an air of listless boredom as his burly barons hurl accusations of treason at each other.
Censure is a fig leaf that Congress can hide behind to affect an air of respectability and responsibility while meeting neither standard (editorial, Nov. 20).
