Thankfully it also comes across as an actorly affectation and isn't written into the character's story. |
She was always repelled by affectation in young or old, and was, perhaps unconsciously, a little unsympathetic toward children on this account. |
When I started staying in hotels I assumed that diagonally sliced toast was some kind of catering affectation. |
The other ghastly affectation, which is particular to young women, is vocal fry. |
I figured that since the word was calligraphed with such emphasis and affectation, I had to be missing something. |
But there's a lot more of John Lennon's pensive melodicism than Paul Simon's simpering folkie affectation in Smith's music. |