Sentences with phrase «without affectation»
He was totally without affectation, while dressing with a style that would allow him to wear a gold Ashanti weight on a chain around his neck in contrast to a conventional English business suit.
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he said, without affectation.
On the contrary, one who without affectation says that he is in despair is after all a little bit nearer, a dialectical step nearer to being cured than all those who are not regarded and do not regard themselves as being in despair.
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Without the stone - age shredding that was once this band's life purpose, Used Future is just nostalgic affectation, with the added anti-bonus of pushing frontman John D. Cronise's Ozzy - lite enunciations and corny lyrics — like those of the vixen - fearing cautionary tale «Deadly Nightshade» — into the unflattering limelight.
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.
The film is so like Scott's Domino in its visual affectations and uniform incompetence that the two pictures could exchange scenes willy - nilly without losing a step.
It's affectation without authenticity, unseemly Francophlia with only real love for the opportunities for affectation such an affliction provides.
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.
He's played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt (with a throaty, baritone voice that, when the real Snowden shows up at the end of the movie, seems like an odd and just downright incorrect affectation), and the movie portrays him as an American patriot who, at the beginning of the story, is about to become a man without a country.
In the best works, James tests the limits of perception and its tenuous connection to language without devolving into affectation or didacticism, which is rather remarkable in this jargon - riddled age.