Lake Bell takes a somewhat more compassionate aim in her new movie, "In a World…" But whatever the proper response to this affectation of today's seemingly grown women, it would be wrong to consider them descendants of the distinctive-voiced cartoon siren Betty Boop.
His translator, Lydia Davis, deserves to be congratulated on her success in reducing this affectation of French avant-gardism to relatively readable English.
This course is frequently pursued by Cicero, indeed this affectation of indifference is sometimes carried so far that we trample disdainfully under foot arguments which we should never succeed in refuting by counter-argument.
Ms. Wolitzer could make chalk-on-a-blackboard screeches with too much of this schoolkid affectation.
As you might imagine, this amount of affectation is a bit exhausting: you get the impression that Diamandis couldn't tell you where the nearest cashpoint is without crossing her eyes, blowing a raspberry and doing quote marks with her fingers every other word.
23 Severity of ADRs was classified into four categories: mild, moderate, severe, and fatal according to the level of affectation of the normal life of the patient.
It's diverts your interest, enthusiasm and outrage until it's absorbed into this black hole of affectation.
Mr. Eyre said he remembered being impressed by "her truthfulness, her purity of instinct, her lack of affectation".
The plainest work of all occurs in the last sequence, "The Rock", a haunting re-statement of his theme, shorn of affectation.
This is a kind of interpretive affectation that most conservatory teachers do not abide.
