Sentence examples for a genuine affection for from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

They are both stubborn, difficult, demanding, sometimes irrational — and yet one senses that you have a genuine affection for both of them.

But even at its most rushed, the book evinces a genuine affection for its subjects that makes it tough to resist.

If chance led him to the Sunshine, a genuine affection for the place apparently kept him there for more than 16 years.

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.

"He has a huge and genuine affection for the club.

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