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Sentences ending with affectation

It is impossible to go back to the same conversation, to talk of trifles is awkward, and yet the desire to speak is there and silence seems like affectation. [2]
Her manner towards Medallion was not marked by any affectation. [11]

More example sentences with the word affectation in them

As to the whiskers, as I have never worn any, do you not think that people would call it a piece of silly affectation were I to begin wearing them now? [7]
If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
Peter Irving, who was then in Edinburgh, was impressed with the brilliant talent of the editor of the "Review," disguised as it was by affectation, but he said he "would not give the Minstrel for a wilderness of Jeffreys. [4]
She was fresh, volatile, without affectation or pride, and had a temperament responsive to every phase of life's simple interests. [11]
Now the letter took a different aspect-all save the signature, which latter I judged to be only a harmless affectation of Hebrew. [5]
One who means to talk with entire sincerity,--I said,--always feels himself in danger of two things, namely,--an affectation of bluntness, like that of which Cornwall accuses Kent in "Lear," and actual rudeness. [6]
Besides, he said them without any kind of affectation, and with a certain turn of dry humour, as if he were inwardly laughing at the idea of the poem. [11]
There is in them an affectation of psychological purpose which is not very well sustained, and a somewhat clumsy introduction of supernatural machinery. [4]
It passes beyond the affectation of knowing persons who write books and write for the press, artists in paint and artists in music. [4]
At first I supposed she did it through an affectation of modesty, which I thought but ill became her under the peculiar circumstances of her case; but on my renewal of the charge, I found she repelled it with greater firmness than before. [7]
But it is still observable that with all his changes of position, he never assumes the upright or a fraudful affectation of dignity. [5]
And there is still more vigor, without affectation, in scientific investigation, in the daily conquests made in the realm of social economy, the best methods of living and getting the most out of life. [4]
Miss Forsythe was so happy that tears were in her eyes half the time, and she bustled about with an affectation of cheerfulness that was almost contagious. [4]
He did not say that the Emperor had kept him, and Prince Andrew noticed this affectation of modesty. [2]
I need not say how suddenly and completely this affectation was laughed out of sight by the coming of the "humorous" writer, whose existence is justified by the excellent service he performed in clearing the tearful atmosphere. [4]
Then I would remember My Lady in "Marriage a la Mode," and amuse myself with thinking how affectation was the same thing in Hogarth's time and in our own. [6]
In the Bible records there is not much mystery about her; there are many tributes to her noble qualities, and some pretty severe and uncomplimentary things are said about her, but there is little affectation of not understanding her. [4]
And on the other hand, there is a great amount of affectation in the apparent enthusiasm of many persons in admiring and applauding music of which they have not the least real appreciation. [6]
The prominent characteristic of the Poems is affectation, artificiality; their makeup is a complacent and pretentious outpour of false figures and fine writing, in the sophomoric style. [5]
With an affectation of respect which evidently struck Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. [2]
All the affectation of interest she had assumed had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety and fear. [2]
Nor was there much affectation in this. [4]
She was the most natural being, the freest from affectation, he had ever known. [11]
Isn't it a little affectation on the part of the stage-struck committee? [11]
Madame Chalice approved instantly, for though the costume was, in itself, an affectation, previous to the time by a generation, it was in the picture, was sedately refined. [11]
The captains of his own station resented his assumptions of superiority, and while he did not try to win them by an affectation of comradeship, he probably repelled those of better breeding by a swaggering manner. [4]
Besides this the general opinion of all who had known him previously was that he had greatly improved during these last five years, having softened and grown more manly, lost his former affectation, pride, and contemptuous irony, and acquired the serenity that comes with years. [2]
The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference. [2]
The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation of profound thought. [2]
The room was eloquent almost to affectation of the system and order of great business, inasmuch as it betrayed not the least sign of a workshop. [9]
He went to balls and into ladies' society with an affectation of doing so against his will. [2]
It was throwing away his one chance; it was foppery on the scaffold--an incorrigible affectation or a relentless purpose. [11]
Its amusing audacity and complacent superiority, the mystery hanging about its writers, its affectation of indifference to praise or profit, its fearless criticism, lively wit, and irresponsible humor, piqued, puzzled, and delighted the town. [4]
There was no affectation about them; those songs came home to the sensibilities of young people,--of all who had any sensibilities to be acted upon. [6]
Then there is a whole museum of wigs, and masks, and lace-coats, and gold-sticks, and grimaces, and phrases, which we laugh at honestly, without affectation, that are still used in the Old-World puppet-shows. [6]

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