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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

Bailey's narration was soporific – his dry delivery suits drollery and, as there was none here, it remained simply flat and unaffecting.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011

Therefore it is that the mythological poetry of the ancients is as cold as it is beautiful, as unaffecting as it is faultless….

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss