Sentence examples for to be an affectation from inspiring English sources

He doesn't seem to know or to care whether his pictures were good or bad; he says that if they did well at the box office, that's all that matters to him, and this doesn't appear to be an affectation.

Mr. Jarmusch isolates the film's series of tiny vignettes by extended blackouts that, at the beginning, seem to be an affectation, but then come to be the visual equivalent of the dead space that surrounds each character.

For a long time, CFS was described as the "yuppie flu", an illness for those privileged enough to have time to feel tired and assumed by many to be an imaginary affectation.

In his reply to Mrs. Curtis, James was careful to distance himself from that other, unmentionable, passion, what he called Symonds's "strangely morbid and hysterical nature," even as he acknowledged that to write about the dead author without referring to it would be "an affectation; and yet to deal with it either ironically or explicitly would be a Problem -- a problem beyond me".

'That would be an affectation.' He is funny.

You could do it, but it would be an affectation, like wearing a monocle.

"And I would hate to think it was an affectation".

"And I would hate to think it was an affectation". He would rather not be called a maverick, because it makes him sound like someone who "makes gadgets in his garage".

"We find it more chic and more spiritual to doubt everything .Up to a point, this is an affectation of the elite.

Mr. Alagna seems to feel that portamento is an affectation, and he favors phrasing that is clear, even to the point of brusqueness.

This sudden and violent divergence in their tastes was shocking to Keisha, and she persisted in believing that Leah's new tastes were an affectation, unrelated to anything essential in her being and largely taken up to annoy her oldest friend.