Sentence examples for professional affectation from inspiring English sources

He began using his middle name, David, as a professional affectation.

It is becoming fragmented to such an extent that the average scientist is now a specialist who knows no more outside his speciality than the average layman; and somebody needed to say that". The fierceness of her character seems to him a purely professional affectation.

Undeterred, he entered the 1984 event under the name of Gerald Hoppy, a professional golfer from Switzerland - an affectation that lasted nine holes and 63 strokes, which was long enough for R&A officials to realise they had another Maurice Flitcroft on their hands.

Barista coffee, cafetieres and so forth were an affectation for the professional classes.

Such affectations were for professional establishments like the local pub: at home we drank out of cloudy tumblers or plastic cups at parties.

My affection for this affectation comes from etiquette envy.

Robyn Addison, in her professional debut, catches perfectly Lydia's languorous affectation; Tony Gardner is very funny as the guilt-racked Faulkland; and Gerard Murphy treats Sir Lucius O'Trigger as an aggressive blusterer rather than a stage Irishman.

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".

But it wasn't until I came to medicine that I first learned about the health disparities facing much of the LGBTQ+ community and experienced being "out" in a professional context where the rainbow pin on my white coat or my personal affectations might set me apart.

These dancers lack affectation.

Nor is this mere affectation.