Sentences with affectation
af·fec·ta·tion
A a - I wore sunglasses all the time and people thought it was an affectation.
- affectation of nobility
- The high necklines weren't just an affectation adopted to hide the signs of age, although they did that well in her later years.
- A page-turning thriller, which skilfully weaves together themes of youthful affectation and intellectual arrogance.
- 1810, Dr. Samuel Johnson, “Life of Gower”, in The Works of the English Poets[1], Digitized edition, published 2009 : This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love . . .
- An affectation of interest in art; affectation of great wealth.
- A commanding presence sitting in the library at the Alvin Ailey studios, she is also completely without affectation --modest, even.
- She is formidably direct, and talks with a lack of affectation that at times makes her sound almost preternaturally sensible.
- A man of a thousand affectations.
- His affectation of literature.
- And it's not affectation either.
- But its stylistic tics could be affectation if they weren't so thoroughly integrated with the show's themes.
- It also reflects a mannerly upbringing, full of love and empty of affectation, in a deeply religious.