How to Use affectless in a Sentence

affectless

adjective

• The zombies themselves are jokes, so that their kills — and their killing — is affectless.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 June 2019
• Grab the closest hunk of orange cheddar or log of affectless chèvre and get gone.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2018
• The locations seem just right, from the blankly affectless strip malls to the temporary-feeling apartments.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• The point of the sequence isn't Watts' rote, affectless exposition, though.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2018
• Written in a flat, affectless prose, and with much of the action carried by dialogue, these novels suggest that nothing much can ever matter.
  — Michael Gorra, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• At the same time though, Damore’s style was too affectless to suggest a provocateur or conspiracy theorist.
  — Kat Stoeffel, The Cut, 24 Aug. 2017
• His influence is also apparent in the performances, which can be borderline affectless.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• Or Dumont, if only because his sleepy, long takes with typically affectless non-professional performers need to end at some point?
  — Robert Abele, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• The color intensification is not affectless and artificial, as in a screen print by Andy Warhol.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• The sentiment perfectly sums up the late German singer’s nihilistic, affectless power.
  — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018
• In its place is Kirby’s affectless physicality, a muted wardrobe, and the evergreen presence of martinis.
  — Molly Creeden, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2018
• But the contrast between JWords’ rippling, purposeful arrangements and her affectless singing only highlights the weakness of the latter.
  — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
• An odd thing about the book — one that gives it an aloof, affectless quality — is that Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
• Batuman's quirky, almost affectless narration is ideal for this quirky and often delightful novel about the Harvard freshman year of Selin Karadag.
  — Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• Nevertheless, an underrated aspect of Alonso’s work is his dry sense of humor, which plays out here in the affectless performances and the blank time filled by awkward glances and pleasing animal appearances.
  — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 16 May 2026
• And the flat chorus draws on a pop-culture cliche of affectless avengers; Game of Thrones’s ever-more-monotone Arya Stark, fulfilling the same gendered archetype, even has a kill list like the one mentioned here.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2017
• But Kardashian’s performance, stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, is exactly what the writing, also stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, merits.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
• Avoiding romance and melodrama, deBoer writes in an affectless register that mirrors Alice’s dissociation.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
• There’s a striking contrast between the messy patterns of the finger marks, which recall the gestural language of Abstract-Expressionist paintings, and the cool, affectless distance of the underlying images.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019
• There is something almost dialectical about the contrast between the parents on one hand and Nancy on the other, between Cameron and Buscemi’s open, guileless performances and Riseborough’s flat, affectless line readings.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• The video, shared exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter and shown below, reveals just how dialed in Urie was to the character — even as his scene partner, Spahn, read Jason Segel’s lines in a dry, affectless tone to avoid drawing too much attention to himself.
  — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025