Strange ... during the McCain announcement, which I watched online, I was talking with a friend over the phone & mentioned that Palin's older daughters seemed kind of affectless and unhappy (or that was the vibe I got anyway). ❋ Unknown (2009)
A chorus of similar young men and women narrate these overlapping stories, and all share an affectless monotone, whether they're describing having an affair with a teacher, like April in her self-titled story, or gang-raping a girl, like Roberto in "China town." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Certainly the acting is affectless and flat, except for the brother and sister played as little children -- those young actors are very nuanced and good. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)
The tender response of the generally affectless Oliver Ewan McGregor to his late father's grief-stricken pooch terrier in "Beginners" is more revealing than a Rorschach. ❋ Joanne Kaufman (2012)
It was written by Fuka-Eri, a beautiful 17-year-old whose odd, affectless way of speaking suggests that she may be an autistic savant. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
Given that finally we don't know which person he really is, the original more affectless reaction seems the right one, but many readers might find this unregulated drift in our disposition toward the character unsettling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yes, it really is that affectless and unintelligible. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Writer-director Bruno Dumont's latest film is a typically flat, affectless work in which you spend much of the film puzzling out exactly who is who and what is going on. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)
In an ominous drumbeat of affectless and repetitive sentences You were not alone, poor, alcoholic, abandoned. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
And a male photographer wants just about every female around — including the former star model ineptly played by an affectless Mischa Barton. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The book is a yawn: 11 sketches of youth-gone-awry in suburban California, undone by boredom and indifference, all narrated in a flat, affectless tone that reads like a parody of early Bret Easton Ellis, except not funny. ❋ Michael Lindgren (2010)
It may strike some as affectless, but anyone familiar with Marines will likely recognize in Bacon the almost exaggerated courtesy officers use when officially out in public. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At times he comes across as a lettered, affectless Jeremy Clarkson France's car dependency gives the lie to "that universally preached, seldom practised, utterly trite and entirely unrealistic doctrine of sustainability," says Meades, with as much feeling as if he were reading out a recipe for crêpes suzette. ❋ Unknown (2012)
It is, however, unmistakable in the affectless but cumulatively affecting chunks of prose that serially approximate the aimless, one-thing-after-another succession of experiences that make up the narrator's life. ❋ Unknown (2009)
