affecting
adjective
moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.
unaffecting
-
a word derived from
affecting.
Example Sentences
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The father-son standoff, in which Harlan threatens to expose McNeal’s literary crime to the New York Times in revenge for the way he treated his mother, is strangely unaffecting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
This is the second indulgent and unaffecting daddy-issue movie of the summer — the first was “My Dead Dad.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
The images of soldiers at ease, at work, or in combat—and, for that matter, appalling and mournful ones of those fallen in action—aren’t so much unaffecting as, despite Jackson’s best intentions, general.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2019
As a meditation on the nature of loss, it is weirdly unaffecting.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010
I condemn them only as uninstructive and unaffecting, as too ludicrous for reverence or grief, for Christianity and a temple.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
