| Instead of internationalism, we find among the Left now a sort of affectless, neutralist, smirking isolationism. |
| Marta narrates the novel, and her sentences carry in their chilled staccato rhythms the robotic numbness of a mind without feeling, affectless. |
| A lobotomized patient may not feel any happier, but affectless, quiescent people are surely easier to deal with in an institution. |
| And there you are, years later, a jaded, affectless, neurotic, disenchanted, sad person. |
| The affectless voyeurism and exhibitionism of reality TV has undoubtedly inspired the movie. |
| One would expect squalor or heaviness, some implicit genius loci, to color McCarty's modest American boxes, but they are deadpan and affectless. |
