Sentence examples for mere affectation from inspiring English sources

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Nor is this mere affectation.

While at first it may grate, over time one begins to realize that the weirdness that defines Ace Attorney is no mere affectation.

While at first it may grate, over time one begins to realise that the weirdness that defines Ace Attorney is no mere affectation.

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Some found her detachment and cut-glass English drawl irritating, but these were no mere affectations; rather, they were Nessa's doomed attempts to distance herself from personal traumas buried deep in her past.

That's why its diffident performance styles come off not as a reflection on the life and work of performers but as a mere directorial affectation.

His fanatical attention to period detail — polyester shirts and short shorts, the hairstyles and the men with hair dryers, the dances and even the postures and gestures that bristle with the mood of the times — seems no mere decorative affectation but a material reconstruction of what the historians call mentalities.

This was mere mannerism.

My affection for this affectation comes from etiquette envy.

At this time, some critics were beginning to complain that the style was becoming an affectation, the nudity arbitrary, and the subjects mere excuses for abstract patterns.

These dancers lack affectation.

Affection becomes affectation.

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