The phrase "a measure of affection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quantifiable expression of love or care towards someone or something.
Example: "He gave her a small gift as a measure of affection, hoping to show how much he cared."
Alternatives: "a sign of love" or "an expression of fondness."
Rob, Bob or Bobby If nicknames are a measure of affection, Robert Evans inspired plenty.
In the waning days of Mr. Bloomberg's tenure, New Yorkers are expressing a measure of affection for their 108th mayor, a sometimes prickly by-the-numbers manager who eschewed the role of emoter in chief.
The cards, whether religious or not in theme, went to people you rarely wrote to and even more rarely spoke to, but for whom you still had a measure of affection — or curiosity.
Burton, just as he did with Ed Wood, treats him instead with at least a measure of affection, and respects his passion for art, which at least is unfeigned We can't help but feel a sympathy for him when he is being sneered at by Canaday or by the modernist art dealer Ruben (Jason Schwartzman) across the road.
A measure of the affection with which Pixar is regarded can be found in the online outrage which greeted a venomous review of Toy Story 3 by the New York Press critic, Armond White.
So it was a measure of the affection that The Expendables cast are held in that when they rode slowly down the Croisette on two massive Soviet-era tanks, completely clogging the thoroughfare, festival-goers simply cheered them on and took out their smartphones to take a photo.
During his nine years at Aleppo, al-Mutanabbi wrote 22 major panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawla, which, according to the Arabist Margaret Larkin, "demonstrated a measure of real affection mixed with the conventional praise of premodern Arabic poetry".
Compliment your spouse, and he or she will respond with a new measure of affection.
But if Pooter inspires mirth in the reader, he also elicits an equal measure of affection.
