This was a far cry from the affectedly quaint confectioner parlors I had grown accustomed to.
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The new movie acknowledges generational turnover by giving Bridget a cold but kooky new boss (Kate O'Flynn) who spouts enigmatic gobbledygook in an affectedly lowbrow accent.
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In the 1920s, the Caesar was romaine, Worcestershire sauce and croutons; now there is a kale, rye-crumb and white-anchovy variant at many an affectedly quaint copper bar.
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In the manner of so many twentysomethings living in North Brooklyn at a time when an artisanal chocolate factory was considered a local landmark and people spoke earnestly about urban homesteading, my life was affectedly analog.
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As intriguing as it is to watch a movie about someone who is gifted yet hamstrung by his own mind, you do wonder whether — after Roman and Lou — Mr. Gilroy is capable of writing protagonists who aren't so affectedly at odds with their environments.
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In her extraordinary new book, "Uncanny Valley," Anna Wiener recounts what made her, a 25-year-old woman with an "affectedly analog" life in New York City, abandon her job at a literary agency in 2013 to work for tech start-ups, and what eventually — five years later — made her leave the industry.
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For those of you who either weren't there, or weren't, like me, devouring the NME in 2002, electroclash was a short lived moment in time when it seemed like the whole planet was fixated on a group of producers who made sleazy, affectedly-disaffected electro that sounded like a marooned Drexciya with vocals provided by a chain-smoking model who looks like she really, really hates you.
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Models (Les Poseuses) by Georges Seurat A poseur is someone who poses for effect, or behaves affectedly,Allen, R.E. Fowler, H. W. The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Clarendon Press. (1984). who affects a particular attitude, character or manner to impress others,Morris, William. editor. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
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The building's proportions, and its landscape setting, contribute to its success as an eyecatcher; "everything is big and simple, to (be) read from a distance." The round tower is roofless and was designed as a shell in order to add symmetry to the facade. John Claudius Loudon, horticulturalist and historian of the Picturesque was not impressed, describing the folly as "gaudy and affectedly common". The Cadw listing record describes Clytha Castle as "one of the outstanding 18th century follies of Wales".
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Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men, Mainstream, 2003, p. 184 Gusty Spence has suggested that Herron, like Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy, took on the mantle of a "Super Prod", or individual who acts in an affectedly extreme Ulster Protestant loyalist way, to deflect any potential criticism of his Catholic roots. Herron was a member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and regularly attended services at the Martyrs' Memorial Church, the group's headquarters on the Ravenhill Road in south-east Belfast.Dennis Cooke, Persecuting Zeal: A Portrait of Ian Paisley, Brandon Books, 1996, p.
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Leaching can also be applied affectedly to enhance water quality and contaminant removal, as well as for disposal of hazardous waste products such as fly ash, or rare earth elements (REEs). Understanding leaching characteristics is important in preventing or encouraging the leaching process and preparing for it in the case where it is inevitable. In an ideal leaching equilibrium stage, all the solute is dissolved by the solvent, leaving the carrier of the solute unchanged. The process of leaching however is not always ideal, and can be quite complex to understand and replicate, and often different methodologies will produce different results.
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The definition of twee is something "excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental," supposedly born from a childish mispronunciation of the word sweet. While the terms "twee" or "twee pop" are considered pejorative in the UK, a retrospective fascination with the genre in the US saw Americans eagerly defining themselves as twee. According to The A.V. Clubs Paula Mejia: AllMusic says that twee pop is "perhaps best likened to bubblegum indie rock – it's music with a spirit of D.I.Y. defiance in the grand tradition of punk, but with a simplicity and innocence not seen or heard since the earliest days of rock & roll". The author Marc Spitz suggests that the roots of twee stem from the post-war 1950s music.
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In the third section the narrator as a human continues to justify their belief that they were formerly a bat. The narrator cites a preference for dawn and dusk over strong daylight, a sense of deja vu when visiting Carlsbad Caverns—which is believed to house the world's largest bat colony—and a “dislike for headfuls of human hair” due to a fear of entanglement. The narrator then describes having always perceived vampire films as ridiculous, alluding to costume, stage directions, and special effects in the 1931 film Dracula. The description highlights the complete lack of agency held by female characters in the film and pokes fun at this rendering of an affectedly bat-like man being able to so easily overpower them with his masculine sexuality when in fact he bears more resemblance to an umbrella.
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And that is nothing to be sorry about, so keep your needy apologies to yourselves." Patrick Ryan of USA Today praised the "collaborative muscle and confidence" on the album, noting that they show "an artist who is completely unafraid to reinvent himself and create the very definition of a comeback album [...] With Purpose, he proves himself as one of today's most forward-thinking pop stars, and because of that, we're newly converted Beliebers." Al Horner of NME magazine gave the album three out of five stars commenting that Purpose "[is] certainly a start at reinvention" and that "plenty of good choices have been made here." In her review for The Guardian, Caroline Sullivan noted that "the musical direction owes much to co-producer Skrillex, whose unexpectedly subtle electronic palette complements Bieber's affectedly breathy voice," arguing that "the voice soon palls, but the songs are often interesting.
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" Critique site AllMusic elaborated on the experimental nature of the eponymous track, saying that it was, "the Portland, Oregon-based sextet's most challenging song to date, a sprawling, six-minute, prog rock epic that will draw forth from the lips of critics names like Queen, Bowie, ELO, Tull, and the Beatles."; the remainder of the review praised the album as a whole: "there's enough meat on these bones to suggest that the band hasn't lost its knack for crafting spiritually charged, enigmatic woodcuts of 21st century Americana." Most reviews were positive, with Pitchfork applauding the album's sound: "Blitzen Trapper's version of Americana is one of the most melodic and playful (and least affectedly twangy) since Being There-era Wilco, and Eric Earley uses his craggy Dylanesque voice to add grit to his more featherweight melodies." PopMatters was even more effusive: "...the band manages to find a sense of collective unity between tracks, something Furr failed to do.
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