How to Use affectless in a Sentence

affectless

adjective

• The zombies themselves are jokes, so that their kills — and their killing — is affectless.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 June 2019
• Grab the closest hunk of orange cheddar or log of affectless chèvre and get gone.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2018
• The point of the sequence isn't Watts' rote, affectless exposition, though.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2018
• The locations seem just right, from the blankly affectless strip malls to the temporary-feeling apartments.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• And the flat chorus draws on a pop-culture cliche of affectless avengers; Game of Thrones’s ever-more-monotone Arya Stark, fulfilling the same gendered archetype, even has a kill list like the one mentioned here.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2017
• If the press announcement was Trump’s attempt to rile up his base, Kasowitz’s uninspired, affectless performance fell flat.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 9 June 2017
• Written in a flat, affectless prose, and with much of the action carried by dialogue, these novels suggest that nothing much can ever matter.
  — Michael Gorra, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• At the same time though, Damore’s style was too affectless to suggest a provocateur or conspiracy theorist.
  — Kat Stoeffel, The Cut, 24 Aug. 2017
• The color intensification is not affectless and artificial, as in a screen print by Andy Warhol.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• Its main set is a living room with a front door at the right, a kitchen at the left, stairs at the back and a couch in the middle: the upper-middle-class, affectless, catalog-bought, averaged-out set an artificial intelligence might imagine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2020
• Batuman's quirky, almost affectless narration is ideal for this quirky and often delightful novel about the Harvard freshman year of Selin Karadag.
  — Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• The general feel and manner — loose, shambly, a bit affectless — bear a passing resemblance to Christopher Guest’s improvised comedies (never quite hitting the highs, never as slack either).
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• The sentiment perfectly sums up the late German singer’s nihilistic, affectless power.
  — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018
• Or Dumont, if only because his sleepy, long takes with typically affectless non-professional performers need to end at some point?
  — Robert Abele, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• There’s a striking contrast between the messy patterns of the finger marks, which recall the gestural language of Abstract-Expressionist paintings, and the cool, affectless distance of the underlying images.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019
• In its place is Kirby’s affectless physicality, a muted wardrobe, and the evergreen presence of martinis.
  — Molly Creeden, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2018
• There is something almost dialectical about the contrast between the parents on one hand and Nancy on the other, between Cameron and Buscemi’s open, guileless performances and Riseborough’s flat, affectless line readings.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• His influence is also apparent in the performances, which can be borderline affectless.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020

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