Crossword-Solution: AFFECTATIONS
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| Wit | 56 answers |
| Temperament | 60 answers |
| whim | 62 answers |
| airs | 74 answers |
| Humor | 77 answers |
| humour | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NROAEC
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with AFFECTATIONS (5)
When asked what he did for a living, he truthfully said, "I talk to people." About what? "Whatever interests them." He became somewhat of a celebrated fixture at several 'pubs' in Marin County where he found the atmosphere more to his liking; a perfectly civilized provincial suburb of San Francisco where his purchased affectations wore well on the locals who endlessly commuted to their high tech jobs in Silicon Valley 40 miles to the south.
How she would wait for him in green places, without showing any of the ordinary womanly affectations of indifference! How proud she was to be seen walking with him, bearing legibly in her eyes the thought that he was the greatest genius in the world! He formed a resolution; and after that could make pretence of slumber no longer.
She had seen him, it appeared, I know not where, soon after his arrival in the East, and was vastly amused at his little affectations.
She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.
But the female dog, that mass of carneying affectations, shines equally in either sphere; rules her rough posse of attendant swains with unwearying tact and gusto; and with her master and mistress pushes the arts of insinuation to their crowning point.
Quotes with AFFECTATIONS (3)
I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the…
Explanations of straight men's homosexual behavior take the awkwardness, shame, and ambivalence attached to these encounters as evidence of discordance between self and behavior, forgetting that these affectations characterize the terrain of sexuality more broadly. For example, among the many costs of sexism is that sex is often utterly scripted and unsatisfying for straight women, and yet straight women's sexual dissatisfaction is rarely taken as evidence that they are actin…
C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" — a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.