Sentence examples for a genuine affection from inspiring English sources

African nations feel a genuine affection and loyalty towards Blatter.

But get past the shtick, and they display a genuine affection for each other.

Fiennes also conveys Lawrence's ability to create a genuine affection among his fellow aircraftmen.

"People have a genuine affection for the island and a pride in being Manx," said Jenny Dunham, a come-over.

Some arrangements may be marriages of convenience, but a genuine affection seems to have developed between Ellis and Georgia.

Like her mother before her, Suzanne had a genuine affection for people that led to the development of a wide circle of friends.

It was unclear whether this raucous response was A) genuine exuberant affection for the historic institution, B) contractual on the part of the contestants and their families, or C) because there was an open bar.

But there is actually a very genuine affection for the British here.

He combined this with disciplined enthusiasm, a taste for the arcane and arresting, a deep and deeply informed love of literature, felicity of quotation and allusion, and most of all an apparently genuine affection for his readers.Were it not for this last virtue, some of the pieces in this collection would not exist, or anyway would not be nearly as good.

It's also a trade in which co-workers seem to hold a gruff but genuine affection for one another, often gathering after work at a bar near the work site, like Smith's on Eighth and 44th, or at a neighborhood bar like the Snook Inn in Bay Ridge.

Here, amid the incessant rat-tat-tat of majestic one-liners, is a comedy with genuine affection for and interest in its characters.