Affectation

Not only did she start every sentence with the word 'so' – a dim and modish affectation that puts her at the bottom of the class right away – she had very little to say.

His blackness is only a political affectation used when the moment is keen and the price is right.

For every wolf like stare and cigarette puff and vengeful kill, this 007 also laughs nervously: a distinctly incongruous, RADA /pantomime villain, theatrical affectation.

He applied eyeliner as an affectation, supposedly to remind bartenders to look customers in the eye.

I also thought quite a bit about the violence in this movie, and whether it’s critiquing violence in film generally as a masculine affectation.

Notley said the silence edict is a House of Commons affectation that doesn’t respect the legislature’s traditions or the nature of vigorous debate.

As played by Redmayne, an actor who already becomes virtually invisible when not taking on some kind of hoary affectation, Dug’s characterization is so tenuous that his scripting begins and end at his ability to be tossed around with the ease of a twig.

There is no ostentation, precious little affectation and an evident horror of being seen as high-born or – shudder – wealthy.

Creaky voice is prevalent as a peer-group affectation among young women in the United States. citation citation citation citation Vuolo, Mike.

Hickling concludes "Decibels are a useless affectation, which is impeding the development of noise control as an engineering discipline".

It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.

The " von " was an affectation; Franz Anton von Weber was not actually an aristocrat.

Wearing white tie accessories in this manner is considered by many to be an affectation.