Isn't it a little affectation on the part of the stage-struck committee?

Obama also had a peculiar smoking style, a little affectation.

She rose with a little affectation of greater weakness and lassitude than she really felt.

There was little affectation of your more showy opulence.

Here she sighed, with a little affectation of grief.

There is merit in the grouping-nota little affectation in the poor colouring and general effect.

It was so characteristic and easy for him-thislittle affectation.... She was quite cold to him.

There seemed to him generally a want of simplicity and repose; too much flutter, not a little affectation.

He had a mane of red hair and a full beard-nota trimmed little affectation, but the real thing.

And this girl also seemed a part of the old life, with her little affectation of familiarity with its ways.

A little affectation, too.

Her manner of speaking, her giggle, her childish little affectations seemed to grow more American every day.

There were innocent little affectations in it and the room was arranged to create an atmosphere of philosophy and art.

She left off her little affectations,- atributeto his own lack of them,-andsat back in her chair, watching the fire.

"Ninety thousand," said Lorenzo with a little affectation of modesty.

"We" are Mrs. Eddy; a funny little affectation.