I urged him to take it lightly, and he affected disdain and ignored her in turn.

There he sat, affecting disdain and licking one paw as the wind combed ceaselessly through his fur.

When she playfully affects disdain for Toby, Michael takes her seriously, and suddenly falls in love with her.

In the crèche, Gelman Jase had affected a worldliness and disdain for the order by which they had to exist, and he had mannered himself as a careless and irresponsible leader of the boys who "matured" less quickly.

He affected disdain, but we could tell he was excited.

She affected disdain for her parents' Fifth Avenue values, but now that they were engaged the breeding was showing.

"There is one trick he does, not every night for he says it exhausts him too much, but there is this one trick-" "I have heard of it," I said, affecting disdain.

One of the joys of sudden web trends is the speed at which the too-cool-for-school types start to affect disdain and boredom for something that's been popular for all of a week or so.

That chancy device is currently being exploited by the Yugoslav pianist Ivo Pogorelich, who in a recent Carnegie Hall recital appeared to affect disdain for the onerous chore of playing in public, at times even declining to acknowledge applause between composer groups.