Her lack of affect increases the impact of the words.
Others were struck by his lack of affect.
Ms. Tsangari's film is affecting, in spite of its studied lack of affect.
In any case, his brusque "lack of affect" provides one of the long-standing puzzles of the film: is he, too, a replicant?
Nutting's writing is clean and controlled, its banality surely deliberate – an echo of the psychopath's lack of affect that Bret Easton Ellis used so cleverly in American Psycho.
Still, the lack of affect shown by Andy Powers, playing the second-generation alien hunter, Eric Crawford, makes him seem as if he suffered a childhood lobotomy.
"Everyone else wanted to be called Mr because it conveyed a hospital consultant's lack of affect for his effortless achievement.
He barely moved and hardly spoke during his brief set, but the lack of affect made his frank and unforgiving songs even tougher.
His supporters, however, are enthusiastic about his potential and suggest that playing Agent Mulder, with his general lack of affect, is harder than Mr. Duchovny makes it look.
He talks and argues with his friends with an unsettling lack of affect, occasionally apologising with a self-deprecatory "my bad".
You can tell when he says, with an odd lack of affect, "If that's what you want, we'll report the Clinic to the police".
