Then grimaced and added in an affected tone, a hand to her forehead, 'I'm grief-stricken.

"I thought it would be too much for you, considering," he went on with the affected tone of the wounded martyr.

"So, teach me how to build a pancake," she ordered in an affected tone of command.

--this in the affected tone of old Mrs. Rhinelander, as she forced her way through the crowd.

"Well, and that is a right every honest woman has," said Montalais, in an affected tone.

The affected tone may become something new, a tone that only occurs in such situations, or it may be changed into a different existing tone.

Toti dal Monte's Butterfly, with her affected childish tones in the first act, will sound strange at first; by the third act she is likely to win you over with the poignancy of her characterization.

"Well, excuse me, I'm sure," she said in an affected tone.

Rajeev Masand from CNN-IBN gave the movie 2/5 stars saying that "Ultimately, this could have been a sweet, unusual tale about the triumph of a nerd, yet it's let down by its affected tone."

Good afternoon, Mark,' Frank continued in a fair imitation of the Agent General's rich, affected tones.