affectless
Americanadjective
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Astrud Gilberto sings “The Girl from Ipanema” in a light, affectless style that influenced Sade and Suzanne Vega among others, as if she had already moved on to other matters.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The use of an A.I. program to replicate Warhol’s flat, affectless speech to read the diary entries had a strangely fitting logic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
But Kogonada’s self-conscious style begins to work against the material, with his precisionist aesthetic looking increasingly mannered, the actors’ affectless characterizations lending the proceedings a numb, distanced quality.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
As Joe's shift begins — the film is set over the course of one long night — he answers 911 calls in a flat, affectless tone that exudes calm as he tries to help citizens.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2021
Their relationship to manic-depressive insanity is so intimate that we must tentatively consider this affectless reaction as belonging to that larger group.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
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