She was also unaffectionate towards one of her most famous creations, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot who, by the 1960s, she felt had become "insufferable" and "an egocentric creep".
His diaries and letters are filled with unaffectionate references to them.
My father had become a remote, hovering figure, not unaffectionate but slightly threatening.
Never underestimate the power of a cold, calculating and unaffectionate mother to inspire ambition in her child.
The men on "Rebellious Soul" are lame, emotionally brutal and unaffectionate.
It is possible that the public, disenchanted with politicians and unaffectionate towards the Tory party, may indeed grant Labour some standing now.
Perhaps you had performance-related aspirations that turned her off, I suggested; perhaps your lovemaking became unaffectionate.
Anne Stevenson had intended to quote it — passages from it appear in a draft of her book — but Olwyn couldn't bear to hear herself spoken of in this way, and insisted that the passages be removed, reproaching Anne, in a letter of December 12 , 1987 for her "unaffectionate wish to slander me in Plath's words".
The link of course, is "creep" — Ms. Lewinsky's alleged unaffectionate pet name for the Chief Executive, according to the alleged Tripp tapes.
Boyle depicts his whirling, pestilential world like an amused, not unaffectionate Hieronymus Bosch, graphically detailing the 31 flavors of greed.
Still, given "A Serious Man's" unaffectionate — if not hostile — ethnic caricatures, it's revealing, as well as creepy, to learn that the Coens consider this their most personal project.
