affectation

Example Sentences

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While Ross’ style undeniably calls attention to itself, the director is prescient enough to know that some will see his untraditional mode as a mere affectation.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024

Some said that what we saw as a lack of intelligence was in fact a regional affectation: Walker speaks the way many Black people in Georgia speak.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

She embodies Wednesday with her flat affectation and utter disdain for her peers.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

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

What had once seemed an honorable inclination now struck me as a heavy and inconvenient affectation.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris