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Recent Examples of affectless The use of an A.I. program to replicate Warhol’s flat, affectless speech to read the diary entries had a strangely fitting logic. Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 His paintings borrowed aspects of photographic vision (arbitrary cropping, dissonant overlap) and even photographic sensibility (cool, affectless, mechanical). Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021 Mumblecore veteran Sheil, with her Raphaelite curtain of hair and almost affectless voice, can be an opaque heroine, and the plot, as far as there is one, feels halting at first, the dialogue choppy and unreal. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 30 July 2020 Johnny Flynn’s affectless monotone was crisp, clear, and cheery. Adrienne So, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for affectless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for affectless
Adjective
  • O’Neil had shown a more ruthless streak in dealing with Lemina, stripping the midfielder of the captaincy after those embarrassing post-match scenes at West Ham.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • There is the ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his mysterious assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau).
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • His dad was a stiff-upper-lip kind of guy, and Clint became known as the stoic kid with the sleepy brown eyes.
    Jenni Carlson, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Sidhwa, a stoic man with short hair, woke up when the pressure wave from an explosion blew the door open.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Inspired by Lauren’s late mother, Adele, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 55, their family knows that this merciless disease is no laughing matter.
    Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Lottie proposes that Natalie be stripped of her title and that the merciless and vicious Shauna should lead them instead.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Havoc brings the heat, throwing Tom Hardy's stony Walker into a hotbed of gangsters, dirty cops, corrupt elites, and wicked assassins.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Yeo, with even less to work with, fares a little better with her stony matriarch character, doing a lot with a simple tilt of her face to the sky and a single tear.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And to think, this pitiless conquistador came to North America as a humble kitchen herb, deliberately imported by European settlers for its piquant flavor.
    Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • This is Lynskey in The Last of Us mode, pitiless and unrelenting, and teeing her up against an aligned Misty and Tai is the most exciting development that could have come out of an originally aimless-feeling season.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Collector is also hoping these will satiate the growing wants of his oppressive overlord, The Forger (Roddy Ricch), who has mysterious motives of his own.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But trying to tell the wide-eyed students that trees are soulless breaks Janine’s determination to remain pragmatic.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
  • So is the problem with public education that schools have become anodyne and antiseptic, focused on pedagogy over content knowledge and love of reading books, soulless and viewless?
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Affectless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affectless. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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