She was already up and standing at the window, lifting a shade to peer out — the sun made a warm place on her skin and I felt affection for her known form in this unknown place.
And here's what he says about it: I recently staged an adaptation of the Oresteia with a cast made up of actors from the Actors Studio, and although they were devoted and worked hard, although they were attractive people for whom I felt affection, they had, almost without exception, poor speech.
"You just did it!" How is the Ghost of Christmas Past able to change Scrooge's mind — to make him feel affection and pity for the carolling urchin?
It has been a while since we ate at the trattoria, but I still feel affection for a place that provided the background clatter to my kitchen life for six years, the place in which I ate many traditional Roman dishes for the first time: carbonara, amatriciana, oxtail stew, braised artichokes and bitter greens, and then later, the minestra: thick, pulse-based soup-stews reinforced with pasta.
But the film or rather, my idea of it burrowed its way into me during my formative years in a way that means I can only feel affection for it, as if it's a birthmark shaped like a slice of pizza, or a friend I've known since nursery who always wets herself in my bed when she's pissed.
But this idea was no more unbelievable to another horseman I know than that I think some of my horses feel affection for me.
Mistreat it, lie to it, and ignore it and I assure you that you will not feel affection for it nor will you ever say you love it.
But you feel affection for the unique character you've developed – not much different to the affection I feel for my own cackhanded attempts at pottery: I love them because they're mine.
Can we feel affection for this music?
