affectation

Example Sentences

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Put together, the pieces of her life don't fit because they're affectations.

From Salon

We had to find the musicality of era-specific speech and behavior, without it feeling like an affectation.

From Salon

With no affectation whatsoever, and a voice directly wired to her emotions, she makes Lucille our way into a story we might rather turn away from.

From New York Times

Butler falls squarely in the middle of this pack, giving a decent performance that adopts some of the affectations of its subject and loosely parodies the other ones.

From Salon

Outside of news and sports and awards ceremonies, live television has been something of an affectation since the 1950s: a stunt, a gimmick, occasionally an aesthetic experiment.

From Los Angeles Times