Michael asked, with a consummateaffectation of casual enquiry.
It would, however, be mereaffectation to ignore the seal of approbation which has been placed on these efforts.
So the youngsters called her the 'Black Witch,' and sometimes hooted after her in the streets, or hobbled on before her with bowed heads and ridiculous affectation of infirmity.
His dress was tastefully within the fashion, but not in its extreme, and his admirable figure thus displayed to the best advantage; whilst his whole person was utterly free from every symptom ofaffectation or foppery.
If exclusiveness be needed, affectationcan at least do nothing toward subduing "Shoddy.
Her very freedom from affectation and consciousness had a touch of disdain.
Laying aside then allaffectation of indifference, so common in making bargains, let us set out with acknowledging that it is mutually our interest to agree, if we can.
The room was fitted up in the purest Greek style, not without an affectation of archaism, in the severe forms and subdued half-tints of the frescoes which ornamented the walls with scenes from the old myths of Athene.
Let us hope there was some affectation of indifference in this.
There was no affectation of unconcern in his manner now.
She spoke with a cockney accent, but with anaffectation of refinement which made every word a feast of fun.
He fancied there was something of affectation in Cronshaw's minute knowledge of cricket; he liked to tantalise people by talking to them of things that obviously bored them; Clutton threw in a question.
I am really dull at present, and myaffectation to be clever, is exceedingly awkward.
It was perhaps affectationin Socrates to say, that all he had learned to know was that he knew nothing.
He went to balls and into ladies' society with an affectation of doing so against his will.
All the affectation of interest she had assumed had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety and fear.
The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor theaffectation of profound thought.
With an affectation of respect which evidently struck Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted.
The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.
Balashev, using the words Your Majesty at every opportunity, with the affectation unavoidable in frequently addressing one to whom the title was still a novelty.
He did not say that the Emperor had kept him, and Prince Andrew noticed this affectation of modesty.
Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle at any cost which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.
This affectation has passed away; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style.
It was luminous, dignified, solid, and very slightly tainted with that affectation which deformed the style of the ablest men of the next age.
The singular affectation which had from the first been characteristic of Congreve grew stronger and stronger as he advanced in life.
The interest which his first confessions excited induced him to affect much that he did not feel; and the affectation probably reacted on his feelings.
But their affectation was directly opposed to the affectation which generally prevailed.
In general, when he speaks of himself, it is without affectation or arrogance.
But besides all this, methinks, that very affectation in princes of making themselves invisible, shows them to be conscious of their slender merit, which shuns the light, and dares not stand the test of a near examination.
She is above the affectation of not seeming to understand you.
The reader will pick out for himself such works as he admires in this curious yet not wholly unpleasing mass of affectation and mediocrity.
