It becomes clear as afternoon stretches into evening that Miss Young's dramatic gestures are not mere affectations.

Lord Anduron had a look of cool competence about him that Sterren hoped was not mere affectation.

And they probably thought the scar a mere romantic affectation.

Draspyr sighed, but the expression was mere affectation.

Or perhaps the mock austerity was a mere affectation on Welton ' s part.

To me, however, it comes across as a mere affectation, perhaps to cover up a basic insecurity.

Most of us cannot share this sense, and we may consider the delight chemists claim to take in the contemplation of molecular beauty a mere affectation.

Despite the common misconception that the gull-wing doors are mere stylistic affectations, the design is a very practical one in a tight urban parking space.

Leinster's type of imagination was not a mere literary affectation, but was a basic part of the man.

The fine manners of the participants in the 18th-century works were not mere affectations but signs of civility.