That music is so self-sufficient, it never proclaims its affect, or its message.
It also lacks its pomp, the anticipation it's built, and its affect of relaxed achievement.
It's a slippery band, changing its affect quickly, within a tune, from nearly orchestral harmonic breadth to death-metal straits; the melodic-harmonic writing is serious and good.
Despite its ostensible countercultural vibe, it lives up to its title — it really is, in its construction and its affect, a superhero movie in live-action form.
The reason that it needs to be done is not its affect on the presidency.
Love Your Tent, for exmaple, is a campaign that has been set up to publicise the problem and make festival goers aware of its affect.
This 81-minute documentary surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform and its affect on their behavior.
Purely aristocratic in its courtly origins and its affect, yet requiring the strength and stamina of the toughest athlete, ballet was at once the most platonic and the most intoxicatingly sexual of arts.
The instantly historic video of Mitt Romney's address to backers in Florida is important for its content, of course, but a significant dose of its affect arises from its visual style.
It's got an ineffable melancholy that just floors me every time it hits the turntable, and I thought if I could get even a tiny fraction of its affect on the page, I'd have a story worth keeping.
Yet no matter how flat or diffuse its affect, "Generation Kill" is at its best a tale of battle-forged camaraderie, a "Band of Brothers" set not at Agincourt or Normandy, but Iraq in 2003.
