All 10 Uses of
affectation
in
The Magic Mountain
- I'm so listless," she said, drawling it out with the affectation of the uneducated.†
Chpt 3.2affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- The cord of her pince-nez tucked behind her ear, she spoke with an affectation that was absolutely excruciating, and from up close, one had the impression of a woman whose reason had long suffered the tortures of boredom.†
Chpt 4.3
- Frau Stohr's affectations were dreadful to behold.†
Chpt 4.9 *affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
- As is obvious, we have a particular occasion in mind.... Conversation with his cousin had not satisfied his chatty affectation, and so he had intentionally struck up a new acquaintance.†
Chpt 5.4affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- She noticed, however, and as she stood there, bashful and demure, she thrust her head forward at a slight tilt and smiled affectedly with pursed lips, blinking her eyes rapidly.†
Chpt 5.8affectedly = in an artificial manner to make an impression
- Only recently she had told her tablemates about the "affectation" in the tips of her lungs and then, when conversation turned to historical matters, declared that remembering dates had always been her "ring of Polycrates"—which was likewise greeted by rather frozen expressions on the faces of those around her.†
Chpt 6.4affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- He was himself more than a little ill; but without any affectation, he could say he was more inclined to be ashamed of the fact.†
Chpt 6.6
- His advances to the dwarf were such that the crippled woman grinned until her aged, oversize face was a wreath of wrinkles; he paid Frau Stohr compliments that made the vulgar woman roll her shoulder forward even farther and turned her affectations into almost crazed antics; he asked Fraulein Kleefeld to kiss him on his great, ragged lips and charmed even disconsolate Frau Magnus—and all without any detriment to the tender devotion he showed his traveling companion, whose hand he gallantly and frequently pressed to his lips.†
Chpt 7.3affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
- As a matter of fact, the sight of this demure affectation aroused another, more distant memory in her monitor—it reminded him more or less of the way Karen Karstedt had smiled as she had stood with him and Joachim beside her still-undug grave in the Dorf cemetery.†
Chpt 7.8affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- Naphta was smoking a cigarette, and Hans Castorp asked himself whether he would like to do the same and, finding that he had not the least desire, decided this had to be an affectation on Naphta's part.†
Chpt 7.9