He still had the delightful affectations of youth, but wore them with a better grace.
He was quite devoid of the affectations of his cloth.
I have got over all those absurd affectations of childishness which used to be thought feminine long ago.
The more his reason was offended by the grotesque affectations of the prince the more he despised himself for not having them.
Don't be foolish or affected, for then follies and affectations will be expected of you, and the maxim will not longer prove true.
She was unnatural even in her prayers, and she carried her affectations into the presence of the Almighty.
We protest against those foppish airs and affectations by which Mr. Whistler impresses on us his contempt of public opinion.
But her affectations rubbed off on her brother's renown, and as there were plenty of people who darkly disapproved of him they could easily point to his sister as a person formed by his influence.
Miss Ambient, however, received another impression, and I make haste to say that her quick sensibility, which visibly went out to the child, argues that in spite of her affectations she might have been of some human use.
The author's style is rather peculiar, there being affectations of language and invertions of thought, and other causes of obscurity in the course of the story which detract from the pleasure of perusing it.
The play was directed against the affectations and unreal language of the members of literary coteries which, with that of the Hotel Rambouillet as the chief, had long been prominent in French society.
I think I must have sat at it as grave as a judge; for, I remember, the hysteric affectations of good Lady Wishfort affected me like some solemn tragic passion.
She could swim, as Wolf had taught her, in the old river years ago, but she knew nothing of the terms and affectations of properly taught swimming.
He is a warm-hearted young fellow, with some of the fashionable affectations of the age about him, but with good feelings and an inclination to come forward.
What I liked about Byron, besides his boundless genius, was his generosity of spirit as well as purse, and his utter contempt of all the affectations of literature, from the school-magisterial style to the lackadaisical.
Lady Scott thinks I was wrong, and nobody could less desire such a neighbour, all his affectations being caviare to me.
Footnote 62: Shakespeare ridiculed the affectations of contemporary language in "Love's Labour Lost.
The affectations and mannerisms which are its chief defect were due to the unsettled condition of the language, and to the influence of foreign works, which the general love of learning had made familiar to cultivated Englishmen.
When we reached Saint-Denis it was half-past nine; and I swore at Raymond, whose dilatoriness and absurd affectations would make us arrive at Madame de Marsan's unconscionably late.
I readily concluded, from her affectations and fussing, that my neighbor had not made a very distinguished conquest; indeed, one would have said that she was making fun of him and that it amused her to annoy him.
The protecting wooden eaves have already lost their rigidity and their varnish; the crucifix no longer reminds one of the shop-window from which it came; it does not suggest popish aggression nor the affectations of ritualism.
Shakespeare is believed to have satirized the affectations of Lilly, amongst other prevailing modes of pedantry and bad taste, under the character of the schoolmaster Holophernes; and to Sidney is ascribed by Drayton the merit, that he .
Fulke Greville furnishes another instance of a respectable character strangely disguised by the affectations and servilities of a courtier of this "Queen of Faery.
Lilly, the author of Euphues, composed six court comedies and other pieces principally on classical subjects, but disfigured by all the barbarousaffectations of style which had marked his earlier production.
Then something in the lad which underlay all his clerical affectations and easy immaturity rose up and made itself felt.
The source of these literary affectations was a bad one.
They told what now must be considered the plain truth of common sense about the affectations into which a servile study of the Canzoniere had betrayed generations of Italian rhymesters.
The Renaissance riots itself away in Marinism, Gongorism, Euphuism, and the affectations of the Hôtel Rambouillet.
Censure might be passed upon rhetorical conceits and frigid affectations in these characteristic outpourings of pathetic feeling.
And yet it must be allowed that Marino's style is on the whole freer from literary affectations than that of our own Euphuists.
Affectations stained with selfishness win little sympathy; the heart abhors calculations and profits of all kinds.
Then followed a series of affectations like those of women, which often leave you in ignorance of their real wishes.
He was content to shine in reflected light: and the affectations with which he is charged seem to have been unconscious imitations of his great idol.
Her letters are amongst the most amusing illustrations of the petty affectations and squabbles characteristic of such a provincial clique.
It is our business to seek out those who have spoken with resignation and dauntlessness, and to leave aside all those who have only affectations of bravery or affectations of horror to give us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affectations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
