affectation

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2023

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 • Mar. 16, 2023

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 • Mar. 5, 2023

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

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

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