affectation

Example Sentences

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“A gun is a tool to put holes in things,” Nguyen says in his gentle rasp that sometimes takes on a surfer bro affectation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

Carroll proved long ago it’s not an act or affectation; it’s just who he is, for better or worse.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2023

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

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2023

But “Decision to Leave” is also needlessly complicated and at times almost impossible to follow, its narrative inscrutability often coming across less as the result of nonlinear storytelling than as simply a cinematic affectation.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022

For another, cigars, with Zooey, were not in any patent way a young man’s affectation.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger