| A lobotomized patient may not feel any happier, but affectless, quiescent people are surely easier to deal with in an institution. |
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| Instead of internationalism, we find among the Left now a sort of affectless, neutralist, smirking isolationism. |
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| He famously adopted the stage persona of an affectless drunk, only to turn, after his son's death, into a genuine dipso. |
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| The affectless voyeurism and exhibitionism of reality TV has undoubtedly inspired the movie. |
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| And there you are, years later, a jaded, affectless, neurotic, disenchanted, sad person. |
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| Sartre's presence, what there was of it, was strangely passive, unimpressive, affectless. |
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| Marta narrates the novel, and her sentences carry in their chilled staccato rhythms the robotic numbness of a mind without feeling, affectless. |
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| The affectless nature of these duologues is heightened by the womb-like silence within the limousine. |
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| One would expect squalor or heaviness, some implicit genius loci, to color McCarty's modest American boxes, but they are deadpan and affectless. |
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