Sentence examples for lack of affectation from inspiring English sources

Her voice has a comparable lack of affectation: low, musical, instantly recognisable.

Mr. Eyre said he remembered being impressed by "her truthfulness, her purity of instinct, her lack of affectation".

The Los Angeles Times praised their lack of "affectation, histrionics or irony", and The New York Times said much the same.

The works have a frankness, a lack of affectation or mannerism, which to my mind makes them all the more approachable and direct.

The steps he has created for Fairchild show us the qualities that have made this man so beautiful and rare a star: his speed, his concentration, his touching gravity, his lack of affectation.

A Roman Catholic, Mr. Van Rompuy often seems to be fighting to conquer the sin of pride — in his manner, his dress (he favors brown) and his lack of affectation.

Poirier wrote about malcontents, fringe dwellers and stoners -- the words that appear most frequently in "Goats" are "it," "the" and "bong" -- and it was the rawness of the plots and characters, the lack of writerly affectation in general and condescension in particular, that made them evocative and real.

When Beatty and Hoffman play small-timers, it's a reverse conceit, a form of affectation.

Their reincarnation here hinted at the creep of affectation and nostalgia in the techno culture of Berlin.

With its spirited ridicule of affectation and pretentiousness, it is one of the greatest comedies of manners in English.

With its spirited ridicule of affectation and pretentiousness, it is often considered the greatest comedy of manners in English.