Adjective : The man showed unaffected grief at the death of his former opponent. From Dictionary.com.
Cyrus projects that unaffectedness in real life as well. From Wordnik.com. [Miley Knows Best] Reference
We see him in this book of Mr. Carpenter's to that advantage which perfect unaffectedness and sincerity can never lose. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
And most folk-tales have a movement, a sweep, and an unaffectedness which make them splendid foundations for taste in style. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Of the same kind, in its measure, is unaffectedness with the sins of others among whom we live, or in whom we are concerned. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace] Reference
It is fun to be with someone who cracks jokes with the unaffectedness of a Galician peasant and who shows interest for everyday problems. From Wordnik.com. [Madrid Weekly Interviews Fidel Castro] Reference
I also remember the incongruity of the French girl beside me in the car, superb in her unaffectedness and when the song began on the player, just the moors, the vehicle and her in the vicinity, she was moved by the atmosphere, the intensity of the scene and I felt privileged to be part of it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
American girl, her unaffectedness, her genius for easy comradeship. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Money] Reference
Alas! the simplicity and unaffectedness of the Club were again invaded. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference
Whatever her faults he saw most of them -- she had the great virtue of unaffectedness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference
And thus even our old memories must be treated with the same lightness and unaffectedness. From Wordnik.com. [Joyous Gard] Reference
One by one she was discarding them in favor of honesty, unaffectedness, and wholesome enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
What Robert Jenson rightly calls "the spurious freedom of unaffectedness" is ingrained in our imaginations from our earliest moments of life. From Wordnik.com. [Inhabitatio Dei] Reference
Beautiful one could by no means call her, but, enchanted by her natural loveliness, her mind, and her unaffectedness, you forgot this in a few moments. From Wordnik.com. [O. T. a Danish Romance] Reference
The following is particularly valuable from an educational standpoint, because of the absolute unaffectedness of the child's narrative of his own training. From Wordnik.com. [Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression] Reference
His paintings other than portraits and religious works, portray the life of Spain, and exhibit his immense vitality, restlessness, energy, audacity and unaffectedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
I can speak to you with entire frankness and unaffectedness, and I will say that I am conscious that I can now express lucidly, and to a certain extent attractively, an idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
It appeared to be a perfectly logical conclusion that when such unaffectedness and simplicity were forced to assume a hostile attitude to anybody, the latter must be to blame. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Budd] Reference
Lady Honeywood, you know; - I did not sit near enough to be a perfect Judge, but I thought her extremely pretty & her manners have all the recommendations of ease & goodhumour & unaffectedness. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others] Reference
But the ingenuous frankness of this young being, the unaffectedness which waited upon her every movement, had wrought such demolition to my theories that I was slow in recovering my equipoise of thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Story of Abner Stone] Reference
Director Stephane Gauger, born in Vietnam in 1970 to a Vietnamese mother and a French-American father, said it was Han's natural unaffectedness that made her his first choice over a slew of other options. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And lastly, there should come some sense of unity, the thought of combination for good, of unaffectedness about what we believe to be true and pure, of facing the world together and not toying with it in isolation. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
Protestant upbringing she had retained all the unaffectedness and sincerity of the natural human being, all the obstinate love of freedom, unmoved in the least by what men call discipline, ethics, Christianity, convention. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
The history of the patriarch Jacob is interesting not less from the unselfish devotion which we are bound to ascribe to him, than from the deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian tact, gleaming under an air of Arcadian unaffectedness. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Potter] Reference
The simplicity of her dress, and unaffectedness of her manner, invested her with new attractions in my eyes; which increased when I reflected on the elevated position she had resigned, to follow the more humble fortunes of her handsome husband. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler in France] Reference
She could not know the beauty of inward peace, and in spite of her Protestant upbringing she had retained all the unaffectedness and sincerity of the natural human being, all the obstinate love of freedom, unmoved in the least by what men call discipline, ethics. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth]
November, 1797, he published ` ` three mock Sonnets in ridicule of my own Poems, and Charles Lloyd's and Lamb's, etc., etc., exposing that affectation of unaffectedness, of jumping and misplaced accent in common-place epithets, flat lines forced into poetry by italics. From Wordnik.com. [S. T. Coleridge - what was his name] Reference
I sent to the Monthly Magazine, (1797) three mock Sonnets, in ridicule of my own Poems, and Charles Lloyd's, and Lamb's, &c. &c. exposing that affectation of unaffectedness, of jumping and misplaced accent, in common-place epithets, flat lines forced into poetry by italics. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
I sent to the "Monthly Magazine" (1797), three mock Sonnets, in ridicule of my own Poems, and Charles Lloyd's, and Lamb's, etc.etc. exposing that affectation of unaffectedness, of jumping and misplaced accent, in common-place epithets, flat lines forced into poetry by italics. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
His gentleness and kindness, his weak health, brought on by over-study, his perfect simplicity and unaffectedness -- these are the usual details that follow any mention of him, and accord with the impression his writings produced upon me; but of his theological treatises I know nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
Higginbottom, burlesquing instances of "affectation of unaffectedness," and "puny pathos" in the poems of himself, of Lamb, and of Lloyd, the humour of which Lamb probably did not much appreciate, since he believed in the feelings expressed in his verse, while Lloyd was certainly unfitted to esteem it. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
How beautiful she was in her unaffectedness!. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04] Reference
Sophistry unaffectedness …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Leader of Michigan Initiative To End Affirmative Action Welcomes Ku Klux Klan Support] Reference
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