Sentences with phrase «affectation for»

House (A Standardized Affectation for Telepresence), 2000, mixed media installation at Roebling Hall, views of room 1 and room 2.

Many moms have a great affectation for the Biokleen Laundry Liquid.

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Even as its groovy formula for urban renaissance is repeated in cities around the world — often with explicit reference to the original — the back - to - basics affectations of Brooklynization verge on cliché.

(We might compare the affectation, in colloquial English, of saying «one» in place of a blunt «I.») Or he might have a particular reason for using some reserve and leaving a possible doubt whether he really meant himself or «so - and - so.»

It is virtuous that a man should in measure sympathize with the sufferings of the lower animals: only in measure, for someone who tried to sympathize with a shark or octopus or herring would be erring by excess...; their life is too alien to ours for sympathy to be anything but folly or affectation.

The affectations of «mystification,» because affectations are short on candor, are also inconsistent with another of the essential qualities of religion that Otto identifies: the search for the real and true.

Like many of my seasonal affectations, I'm always delighted when citrus season rolls around for three main reasons: One: because it means the plump, juicy oranges from my tree will soon be ready and two: meyer meyer meyer meyer meyer meyer lemons, and three: blood oranges.

North Coast Marijuana Growers Fear a Takeover by «Big Alcohol»: For the Humboldt farmers, Sonoma County's subterranean tasting rooms and Tuscan affectations offered a glimpse into a rarefied realm of legal intoxicants...

But he talked of the Ijebu contempt, for 19th century local Christians» British affectations — «long trousers, shoes and socks, and... umbrellas,» English customs that came with the gospel.

The ministers» affectation is a fascinating display, remarkable for its self - destructive irony.

To convey the piece's theatrical affectations, Peploe fleetingly shows a group of spectators watching the dramatic action unfold, a directorial choice that would not seem so precious but for her failure to capture the essence of Marivaux's spiritedness.

As for Gyllenhaal, her lack of affectation is entirely right for a movie that while generically conceived has its intriguing moments.

Plaza doesn't stray too far from her brand — Tatiana is unsurprisingly droll and cutthroat — but the actress continues to prove that she's more than just her affectations, and her performance is backboned by a heartfelt riot of inner chaos and an uproarious talent for pratfalls (seriously, she has a gift).

Vaughn's southern affectation is an acquired taste, but once you settle in for the long haul it's his bruised knuckles and face stomping that does the talking.

The alternative for Dominik would be to allow the interludes that focus upon Jesse to unfold silently, without any vivid affectation, permitting his audience to deduce the rationale for these scenes by themselves.

Little hints that he, much like Nikola Tesla or Keanu Reeves, is a suspected vampire are a nice touch, but that's included only for humor, as though no one involved realized that those vampiric affectations give real insight into what makes Wiseau, Wiseau.

Forrest is the ultimate Republican foil: Reagan in the ice cream suit of a Pentecostal minister (and Reagan would've played this role, sans significant affectation, a few generations earlier), listening to the good word of momma, God, and the girl he only screws once (and for procreative purposes at that), in that order.

Dante shoots his load here, incorporating everything but the bathroom basin: the French cowboy, if I'm not mistaken, paved the way for a «Doctor Who» reference, with his big - oil Texas suit adopting a Peter Davison affectation when worn by the gawky Short, and there's an altogether transcendent passage in which Quaid blasts a cry for help in the form of Sam Cooke's «Cupid» inside his now - ex-wife Ryan's skull.

It's affectation without authenticity, unseemly Francophlia with only real love for the opportunities for affectation such an affliction provides.

But even here Edwards is canny enough to save the incomparable Victor Spinetti for the shtick's final gambit, and then to transfer the affectation to Herbert Lom — back again as Clouseau's tormented superior Dreyfuss — with unimpeachable comic logic.

Nominated for Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Winner of Best Actor (Alessandro Nivola) in a U.S. Narrative Feature at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, One Percent More Humid explores such themes of heartache, love, and retribution via the bold affectations of two young women trying to make sense of themselves and their circumstances.

While Frank and his compatriots are for the most part your stereotypical artistic eccentrics — Maggie Gyllenhaal's Clara plays the theremin and dresses like she's from the»20s, François Civil's boho bassist Baraque speaks French all the time, and though Frank's insistence on wearing a giant fake head is a symptom of deeper psychological issues, it certainly seems at first, to Jon and to us, that it's an affectation adopted by a deeply artistic soul — Jon's just... a normal guy.

Martin's supercilious affectation and Oxford ways contrast smartly with Phil's homey wisdom and, for instance, her endearing affection for tawdry romantic fiction and her non-familiarity with international travel.

He makes a few half - hearted attempts to get the kid (played without any child - actor affectations by Michael Algieri) to the police and child services, but the boy refuses to leave him, for Sam is the best adult the boy has ever met.

For his buddy Bennett Miller's feature debut, Philip Seymour Hoffman picked up the mannerisms of Truman Capote, nailed the author's high - pitched affectation, and then kept digging.

There are doubtless thematic reasons for this, but it feels like a pretty glaring affectation.

It has long been fashionable in auto - enthusiast and auto - journalist circles to dismiss the Toyota Prius as a precious affectation of misguided Al Gore devotees, people who find automobiles something to endure — for the sake of pure transportation — rather than enjoy.

For a model that genuinely possesses high - performance chops, it's mystifying that a superstar designer like Schreyer would allow fraudulent affectations like faux hood vents (they're even highlighted in contrasting paint!).

- Sunday Times (UK) «Maeve Binchy's death left a gap in the market for stories simply told with no literary affectation.

is usually the affectation of a lazy editor and can be as cringe - inducing for the bylined writer as for the readers.

This group's thirst for nonconformist epistemologies is suffused with an appetite for irony quite capable of accepting the adoption of questionable tendencies, like white supremacy, as instances of banal posturing or jaded affectation.

No one likes to be preached at or lectured to, even though Campbell wants the meaning of his works to be open ended, It for Others can seem more like an academic Powerpoint lecture than an artwork, even though I take its tone as an almost poetic conceit, an almost theatrical affectation.

Big ups for using «affectation» in its proper context.

(Talking about herself in the third person is an affectation that she loves only for this column, not for her other work.)

The wireless version of the LS50 have their own affectations, including robust heat sinks at the back (which partly accounts for that anvil weight), and CAT - 6 inputs to sync the stereo channels.

I think they are great — for a laundry room where you need a big deep sink Anywhere else they look like an affectation to me unless you have a 100 year old farm house.