In the United States, there is the affectation of industriousness.
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Whatever effect was hoped for, this viewer just saw affectation.
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What it offers, like everything here, is comfort without affectation.
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Obviously it was a literary affectation, or just a communicative tic.
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Just a quiet voice, stripped of much of its SoCal affectation.
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And it's also the affectation, which is the fry and up-talking.
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The affectation becomes a symbol of conformity, and worse, a betrayal of self.
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Does that mean a mechanical dive watch is nothing but a retro affectation?
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His devotion was strict but without affectation; you'd never picture him in spats.
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Seb's fussy jazzman antiquarianism is, in any case, an entirely plausible millennial affectation.
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Kerry was game to do a quiet service to the campaign without affectation.
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It was an annoyingly anachronistic affectation, something we'd tease her about all the time.
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It's a strange affectation that Disney Parks employees use when they're pointing something out.
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In Australia, as the environmentalist Tim Flannery observed, there is the affectation of effortlessness.
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Without affectation, he created a presence that was wholly male without sacrificing feminine grace.
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"I really know that it is a hopeless affectation," Mr. Lang said in an interview.
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It wears its goriness like an affectation, so one is never truly invested in the tale.
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These are not Barnard girls who decided to take on this affectation because it was cool.
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Warning: Watching these videos may make you start involuntarily muttering "Peppa" in a faux-British affectation.
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Her paintings hide nothing; she uses no medium in her oil paint; they lack all affectation.
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Gypsy also speaks in a high, childlike voice, similar to Deutch's own affectation in The Politician.
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He applied eyeliner as an affectation, supposedly to remind bartenders to look customers in the eye.
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And vocal fry, for its part, is criticised as a put-on sexy, fake-femme-fatale affectation.
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Indeed, they nominated an outright white supremacist — can we please quit with the silly "alt-right" affectation?
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His appreciation for and updating of the old-school for the postmodern age of wrestling wasn't affectation.
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I really felt like it would be impossible to connect with him if he had that affectation.
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Uninhibited nudity devoid of affectation is supremely important; it was the strongest way to communicate these things.
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The pause above the surface is deliberate, and the affectation looks painterly: a pensive, romantic near-touch.
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She insisted in interviews that this wasn't an affectation, but the result of her penchant for mimicry.
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When different groups of English immigrants settled in the United States in the 1800s and earlier, some brought over the non-rhotic affectation — typically to the metropolitan areas that are now Boston and New York City, as well as the South — and some brought over the rhotic affectation.
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"Of course, I know a lot of this is affectation," Mr. Buatta once told The New York Times.
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It was never an affectation, yet in some people's eyes it would probably be seen to be pretentious.
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Macron has not offered McCourt advice, but his support is not an affectation, a piece of political posturing.
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The cowboy getup — whether it is a personal style or a consultant-driven affectation — was part of that.
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Although she's remembered primarily for her Jamaican accent, Cleo's patois––like most of her public personality––was an affectation.
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In some ways, that opens up huge new vistas of chill and leisure only stylishly laced with brooding affectation.
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In conversation, he could range easily and without affectation over Freud, Kierkegaard, Stravinsky, Zen Buddhism, Greek oral epic and ballet.
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She hopes to curtail her frequent use of cursing, to improve her grammar and to develop a more sophisticated affectation.
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She runs classes more in the manner of a zany Gracie Allen-type ingénue than some New Age guru affectation.
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Same goes for DJ — Benicio del Toro channels a little of The Usual Suspects' Fenster here, with the exaggerated speech affectation.
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But anyone who views this idiosyncratically earthy habit of hers as hippie unseriousness or mere affectation should have come to Ojai.
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This affectation is often referred to as the "ironic attitude" and has come to be associated with adolescents or young adults.
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Louis Fratino's preparatory studies isolate vignettes of boys on larger sheets of paper, rendered with a tender touch devoid of affectation.
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The deep voice appears to have been an affectation, an attempt to summon up more of a sense of gravitas or authority.
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Perhaps most poignantly, his main project interrogated a site that was no longer there, communicating its absence with the most tangible affectation.
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It can describe a coherent political program, or a mere affectation, such as dropping one's g's and conspicuously owning a pickup truck.
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He doesn't embellish anything, he doesn't act holier than thou, even if the surrealist reference might project an affectation that isn't there.
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" Another curious element in Lohan's speech are her "t's", which she pronounces in a particularly breathy way that seems like a "foreign affectation.
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Their confessionals and commentary are always delivered with the classic Valley girl affectation; they're totally flat, calm, and usually barely change facial expressions.
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While at first it may grate, over time one begins to realize that the weirdness that defines Ace Attorney is no mere affectation.
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Right now, though, it's too expensive to be much more than an affectation, but perhaps the seeds for something bigger are being planted.
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It's not an affectation—she and Cook, especially when they were starting out and quite poor, were known to feed themselves this way.
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On Saturday night, "Duo" was redeemed by Russell Janzen and Ms. Fairchild, who delivered a gloriously honest performance, unmarred by comment or affectation.
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The Judson collective, among other things, eschewed affectation and mannerism in performance, and for that reason Pat Catterson was an especially riveting sight.
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Everything from the affectation of resolution crop, how the whole thing is considered; it's mobile first, and it's really a communication oriented product.
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The Zetas originated from a team of élite commandos who defected from Mexico's armed forces, so the cartel was prone to paramilitary affectation.
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Strewing the plate with tender, pale-green pine needles seemed like an affectation at first, but their flavor lifted and brightened the whole package.
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In cutting Scott, he goes beyond a mere lack of affectation into positive derision, mocking the pretensions of the refined society that mocked him.
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I also thought quite a bit about the violence in this movie, and whether it's critiquing violence in film generally as a masculine affectation.
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As I write this review you'll notice I capitalize "New" when talking about the New Nintendo 2DS XL. That isn't an affectation on my part.
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I use a simple pour-over cone and paper filters, and (in what is perhaps my most tedious Seattleite affectation), I grind the beans by hand.
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While carrying a folded fan might be an eccentric affectation today, for centuries they were the aristocratic accessory for subtle flirting and pre-air-conditioning cooling.
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But the idea of applying feminism to my everyday life seemed laughable: a historical affectation, like using the word "prithee" or wearing a corset to work.
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Before my naturalization, I would have thought it an affectation to call myself an immigrant, even though, according to a strict dictionary definition, I do qualify.
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I'm glad I gave it up eventually, but I look back on this ill-advised affectation fondly when I find myself hesitating to try new things.
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This man in front of her, after all, with his odd demeanor that might appear as affectation to unsympathetic eyes, had been invited to the gala.
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And he's not alone in his lack of definition: there's scarcely a behavior or line reading in this exasperating relationship drama that doesn't feel like affectation.
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Strzok seems to share Cardinal Comey&aposs affectation about being a selfless servant of the people even though he seems to simultaneously hold us all in contempt.
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The item emerged as emblematic of the strutting affectation and ravenous consumption of Washington insiders who have profited from association with the institutions of politics and government.
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I call this an obnoxious affectation, because there is this blissful stereotype of California as an economic nirvana and the Midwest as some sort of deindustrialized death trap.
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To complete the affectation, men and women could buy cases decorated with geometric designs in enamel, eggshell, and lacquer, as well as portable lighters, a relatively recent innovation.
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Some who heard him lecture mistook it for an accent or an affectation, but Mr. Hecht, who had known him since early childhood, said those impressions were mistaken.
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Still, from a few interactions I've had with her, Dalilah Muhammad is as your correspondent describes: empirically beautiful, yes, but also reserved and focused without nonchalance or affectation.
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Much more important, there's little spark between this Romeo and Juliet, and the time-stopping, crazed certainty of a first love is, in them, more of an intellectualized affectation.
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It DOES NOT END with a well timed PR piece, where you wash your face and hands in slowmo, have a new haircut, and speak with a somber affectation.
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Let's face it: "Does that work for yourself?" is never going to work in New York City, which would rather tell you to "drop dead" than adopt that affectation.
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Vocalist Eddie Vedder's distinctive growl was Pearl Jam's calling card in the early 90s, becoming the affectation every post-grunge band would gleefully steal less than a decade later.
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His conservatism, of Sam's Club affectation, fiscal conservatism, tepid social liberalism, and genial trolling of center-leftists at Davos — whom does it speak for in today's politics, beyond Brooks?
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This affectation helps make these men and their situation seem almost alien to us, even if Dafoe sounds like the Sea Captain from The Simpsons a lot of the time.
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The story of how this British affectation spread across the world is told in a new exhibition, "Tous à la plage!" at the Centre for Architecture and Heritage in Paris.
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While "sang" can be a pose or affectation, despondency among a segment of educated young people is a genuine concern for President Xi Jinping and his government, which prizes stability.
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Head chef Patrick Friesen has had it with your faked gluten allergy, your nonexistent shellfish sensitivity, and any other questionable dinnertime affectation that alters the way he prepares your food.
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Mr. Tarantino was unfairly saddled with the perception that he has "a juvenile obsession" with the word, Mr. Jackson said, and that he deploys it in his films as an affectation.
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There isn't a specific notion, or jean size, or muscle shirt, or affectation, or eyebrow raise, or dissolution, or drug use that you have to take part in to be masculine.
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It's not just the use of phrases like "at the moment," but the affectation on words like "all" or "shining" that suggest she's slipping into the accent of her new home.
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Her cake-in-the-throat alto, which many allege is an affectation, has emerged over the past few years as one of people's favorite characters in the duplicitous saga of Theranos.
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There's an air of affectation to Walker's aural sunglasses in the rain, but what is art (or punk or birth of any kind) if not becoming what you previously were not.
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Hopefully this means enjoying more of Goldblum's permanent affectation of charmed interest, and his knack for making even the most mundane of scenarios bizarrely sensual—see, also: Jurassic Park, and Thor: Ragnarok.
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"Jackie's tone was very quiet, very breathy," Babcock said (Babcock also explained that her one issue with Portman's delivery is that she delivers it with a "creaky voice" affectation and less breath).
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Golovkin's soft facial features agree with his gentle demeanor, and while his pocket square could seem like a desperate affectation for others, his seems natural and nothing like that of Thurston Howell III.
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Because Ms. Grills's background is in contemporary dance — she has a B.F.A. from Florida State University — part of her work had been to help the dancers free themselves to move simply, without affectation.
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English decries black nationalist demands for a unified community in favor of an individualism, personal autonomy, and subjectivity that many then and now would deride as a bourgeois affectation if not a betrayal.
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Indiana's extra-art diatribes — on flower shows and ozone holes, sumo wrestling, banks collecting art — in his self-indulgent affectation in which all of the proper names had been excised — are hardly skim worthy.
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An annoying affectation that runs through the play is the use of German accents for comic effect by characters who are, after all, speaking their native language, in which they would not have accents.
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Gerstl, on the other hand, comes across as fiercely focused on exploring his technique and the humanity of his subjects (including himself in his several self-portraits) with a startlingly modern lack of affectation.
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A wide-open goal post for accusations of triteness and affectation, Marc Webb's "The Only Living Boy in New York" dares us to score the second we hear Jeff Bridges's cynical, omniscient voice-over.
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Or his latest affectation, a pair of silver wire frame aviator glasses that are very reminiscent of photographer Terry Richardson's trademark frames, the man who also happens to be behind Kylie Jenner's scandalous new calendar.
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He is paired with Allie Eve Knox, who won the photography contest in the previous round despite her affectation of slightly purple hair (it's a show about fucking, but they're very conservative about hair color).
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Your defects glare like hot neon bulbs: sloppiness, confusion, rootlessness, affectation, pretense, laziness (work does not mean writing one play after another; work means making as perfect as possible the specific product) and a lot more.
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Does "tasteful" entail a cultivated aesthetic, one arrived at through formidable powers of judgment and discernment, or a contrived affectation that degenerates into an automaton-like weakness for bamboo cheese boards and artisanal-coffee-shop playlists?
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"I feel like the feminist take on ballet has been more like, let's do something that's gender neutral, and let's take affectation out of ballet, and that is where I have a problem," Ms. Pyle said.
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Actually, I think almost everything that carries high status usually comes with the risk that if you like it — whether that liking of it is seen as genuine or not — it is seen as an affectation.
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Although DeCurtis suggests that the songwriter may have exaggerated gay mannerisms as a sort of rebellious affectation, this book captures how deeply ingrained into Reed's psyche an understanding of sexual dysphoria, if not sexual dysphoria itself, was.
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Despite the annoying flips and flops in storytelling time (what is it with this trendy stylistic affectation?), the novel delivers a deadly crime, some surprising twists on said crime and several suspects who need a good spanking.
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You play as Carl, a private eye who likes to talk to himself (in third person, with a wonderfully campy affectation) who travels to a tiny town in Northern Quebec at the request of a rich weirdo.
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If it is to regain electoral viability, the Democratic Party's next standard-bearer can't be someone comfortably ensconced in one of these elite strata, where politics is more a matter of cultural affectation than life-or-death exigency.
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But his injury was this season's most grotesque reminder of how storming the court, once seen as a quaint affectation of the college game and a staple of March television highlights, has come to be treated as a hazard.
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In the heightened environment of the coronavirus outbreak, a woman eating a geoduck—a mollusk native to the American northwest—is framed as a uniquely Asian affectation: "why we got that mf virus casually floating around," the caption reads.
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For many young readers, the die-cut magnifying glass that pops out of the book's front cover will be an affectation, but for middle-agers-and-up tasked with helping them with the hunt, it's worth a pirate's plunder. LOOK!
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What if art's "golden umbilical cord," to use Clement Greenberg's vivid phase denoting the connection between artists and the market, is no longer giving us life and nurturing critique, but rather choking difference in favor of fashion, affectation, branding, and decoration?
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Ide writes about the hostility among ethnic groups — notably black gangs and Chinese triads (whose members' affectation of American gang habits comes in for some mockery, though their toughness does not) — in ways that would be offensive if they weren't equal-opportunity insults.
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She writes, in "the breaking": did you think i was a citybig enough for a weekend getawayi am the town surrounding itthe one you've never heard ofbut always pass through Beyond the affectation of the lowercase letters, I find the metaphor impenetrable—the speaker is ... a suburb?
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Today, the band is premiering their new video and song "Little N' Pretty" The song is a strange frenetic drive through extremely loud, and abrasive punk music designed to excite the senses, but also calls to mind the soul and affectation of groups like Killing Joke and Suicide.
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The NFL is not alone in attempting to retroactively apply a visionary and humane sheen to their pursuit of profit; the idea that there is something not just courageous and great-hearted but humanistic about the products we're sold is the singular affectation of the version of capitalism under which we currently live.
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If you're already deeply familiar with the story, certain points won't come as a surprise: Holmes's apparent fascination with Steve Jobs and Apple is mentioned constantly across all the retellings (her black turtleneck aesthetic especially), as is her deep voice, perhaps an affectation, even though it's really only notable if it's fake.
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I know that the murderers existed, not only in Germany, and still exist, retired or on active duty, and that to confuse them with their victims is a moral disease or an aesthetic affectation or a sinister sign of complicity; above all, it is precious service rendered (intentionally or not) to the negators or truth.
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A prime example of the genre is a snooty New Yorker article by Alexandra Schwartz which portrayed support for Sanders as a hipster affectation, comparable to sporting a handlebar mustache: I sense a whiff of historical fetishism in the young love for Bernie, a yearning for an imaginary time of simpler, more straightforward politics that aligns with other millennial tendencies toward false nostalgia for past purity, in fashion or food, for instance.
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