Example Sentences

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Williams’ skillful intentional affectlessness renders her characters slippery, difficult to pin down into preordained binaries of good and evil.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023

Jerry is cannily embodied by Mr. Mann as the heir to Andy Warhol’s affectlessness in facilitating the quest for celebrity.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018

Yet American Honey isn’t aiming for affectlessness at all in its sustained emotional assault on the viewer.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2016

I ask because the affectlessness of it, even the deadpan quality of it, suits the material.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2014

Affect: Complete affectlessness is an integral part of the stupor reaction.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)