The choices are often daring, from the initial flat affect of the performances and arch, ascetic compositions to the ever darkening, increasingly abstract emotional crawlspace of the final passages, most memorably an attenuated dreamscape involving a man in black and a mirror obscured by flowers. (filmcomment.com)
Woolley says studies of the drug are in their infancy, but he holds out hope that oxytocin could become a novel treatment for the social isolation and flat affect so characteristic of schizophrenia. (statnews.com)
I looked for dresses that hit me just below the knee, as that length has a really flattering affect on legs and hips (hi, hourglass). (cameronproffitt.com)