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Перевод: affectation

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аффектация ; манерность ; искусственность ; жеманство; притворство
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Тезаурус:

1. That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all, and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation.
2. He retained his northern direct honesty of judgement, was absolutely without pretence and intolerant of humbug; he could be devastatingly acid in deprecating affectation in others, yet was, in so many ways, unfailingly and practically kind.
3. Indeed throughout Harwood has some excellent jokes at the expense of the affectation and ludicrous self-absorption of actors, though he is even more unsparing on the playwright, who is gradually exposed in Stephen Moore's performance as a devious, self-regarding little swine.
4. A few remarks of mine in the past about the nature of my so-called "disease" were simply rather embarrassed asides to explain away this foolish affectation.
5. Affectation."
6. Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm: the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like.
7. Tact, in eighties Britain, has become an affectation.
8. Most drama training works on the assumption that there is something called "standard English", which is generally considered to be the "straight" delivery of words without affectation or regional variation.
9. On the rare nights that he was not in The Bar Boy would lay out all these papers in a circle on the floor around his bed (he had this affectation of keeping his bed, a mattress on the floor, in the centre of his small but almost empty room).
10. Walter's position as house-husband is just an affectation, the result of having read "all the right books".
11. Reading Jane Austen was more than an affectation: it was a life-preserver.
12. I was happy with him just as he was, without affectation.
13. He parked a Mercedes 600 on the driveway, although the battered VW was not discarded, merely put away for occasional use for fear of being accused of reverse affectation.