Sentence examples for of the affectation from inspiring English sources

The play is characteristic of Sheridan's work in its genial mockery of the affectation displayed by some of the characters.

In the current study, lesion development was initially observed at the local-drainage lymph node, following which dissemination of infection lead to the affectation of further, random lymph nodes.

Thus, (frac {N N-1)} {2}) decisioN N-1ctions are learned and each of them makes a vote for the affectation of a new point x.

This pathology may be frequently associated to the affectation of the long head of biceps tendon (LHBT), the main stabilizer of the glenohumeral joint together with the supraspinatus.

A crisp satire of the affectations of post-first world war lettered society.

"That Man" displays none of the affectations of intimacy, the straining for a seat at the table, that cheapen so many presidential memoirs past and present.

Mr. Leonard wiped his stories clean of the affectations that crime fiction had previously relied on, and his spare dialogue was a joy to read.

Senna's latest novel, the slick and highly enjoyable "New People," makes keen, icy farce of the affectations of the Brooklyn black faux-bohemia in which Maria, a distracted graduate student, lives with her fiancé among the new "Niggerati".

One of the affectations of "Love Child" is referring to Mr. Huston's professional life only glancingly, as in, "We stayed in the house Richard Burton had built after making 'The Night of the Iguana' there with Daddy, 10 years before".

January 24 , 1670Bardsey, England January 19 , 1729London, England William Congreve, (born January 24 , 1670 Bardsey, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England died January 19 , 1729 London), English dramatist who shaped the English comedy of manners through his brilliant comic dialogue, his satirical portrayal of the war of the sexes, and his ironic scrutiny of the affectations of his age.

Dunn does a brilliant job of recreating Rome in the first century BC as an everyday place with Cicero's incest jokes; Caesar fashioning a comb-over to conceal his baldness; Pompey's tendency to bite his lovers; ingenious methods of contraception and the affectation of aspirating h's among politicians who were trying to sound like the plebians whose support they desired.