Sentence examples for personal affect from inspiring English sources

Chancellor's laugh was more than just a peculiar personal affect.

4. Reflect in writing on how medical technology might have a personal affect on them.

Leonardo's chief quality of personal affect — cold calculation — recommends him as the geek's geek of all time.

One interesting quality that Perry has in common with Dean, and which last night's various back-and-forths brought out, is the extent to which both his national profile and his personal affect are much more ideological than his actual gubernatorial record.

In the piece, Remnick described his initial impression of the writer: To meet DeLillo, at first, is to meet someone who seems to have sanded away all trace of the authorial ego or personal affect: his voice is a flat, wry monotone with just a trace of Bronx; he wears enormous and very thick glasses; his clothes tend toward mail-order jeans, denim work shirts, chinos.

Halliday had suggested it was an exchange of personal affect and attention – a classic 'inception of reciprocity' in terms of Brazelton et al. ([1974]).

Witness Robyn Hitchcock, Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey as evidence for the continued creation of personal, affecting music.

Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP The Washington Post's Moscow chief Michael Birnbaum records some of the personal affects scattered around the site.

Rothko had committed suicide the previous year, and Feldman, who had become his close friend, responded with his most personal, affecting work.

Hopelessly dated, and not especially romantic or comic, the play lacks the more personal, affecting voice that the author brought to his later, semiautobiographical works.

Passing through her house in Coyoacán is akin to following a funeral procession, with the thronging crowds reverently eyeing up her personal affects and the urn in her bedroom which holds her ashes.