Sentence examples for Lingering attachment from inspiring English sources

Christian moderates, by their lingering attachment to the unique divinity of Jesus, protect the faith of fundamentalists from public scorn.

Friends say that her parents' postwar experience in Holland, when food was scarce, is the source of her lingering attachment to preventing waste.

Because she had such a strong emotional feel, I think, she was also able to cure Greene of his lingering attachment to Catherine Walston, the rich, slightly neurotic centrepiece of his published catalogue of amours.

Dutch claims to the city ended nearly 350 years ago, when control was formally transferred to the British, yet they openly carry a lingering attachment, like that of a spurned romantic.

Braun successfully appealed a failed test from October 2011, rankling Selig, who had put his legacy and the integrity of the game ahead of any lingering attachment to his former franchise.

On the basis of newer knowledge, neo-Darwinism has superseded the earlier concept and purged it of Darwin's lingering attachment to the Lamarckian theory of inheritance of acquired characters.

Angel Beats! takes place at a high school acting as a limbo for those who have died, where students learn to give up any lingering attachments they still have from life before passing on.

Lingering colonial attachment?

And he began to realise, with a mixture of conceptual insight and lingering emotional attachment, that it required little or no artistic intervention beyond his first excision of the haunting fragment.

To them, Kant's problem with 'noumena' stems from a lingering, unrecognized attachment to realist metaphysics.

Still, small signs of my once important attachment linger in my Manhattan apartment.