Sentence examples for a note of affection from inspiring English sources

It was not a note of affection.

He went on to describe how his understanding of Lakoff's groundbreaking work in cognitive linguistics formed the conceptual basis of Ithkuil, and ended with a personal note of affection.

He struck exactly the right note of affection tinged with irony.

"The note of affection and esteem, out of tune with most of the rest of the book, is unmistakable," Orwell concludes; the Bright Young People are damned by their exclusion from it.

The savior's purity of compassion for the wronged, absent child strikes a note of pathos quite distinct from that of his oddly contingent affection for the sister.

A note of humility?

Guessing at the required postage, Ruth Madoff covered the packages with stamps and mailed them to a few relatives and friends, enclosing short notes of affection and apology.

Kardashian and Humphries have also made it apparent that their marriage remains firmly in tact, exchanging loving jabs and genuine notes of affection over Twitter.

Note a lack of affection.

The film is modestly ambitious, hoping for and achieving a loopy, low-key note of wry affection for its characters, whether it's the gotta-steal Mr. Fox, his under-achieving son (Jason Schwartzman) or his not-so-understanding wife (Meryl Streep).

And besides, I've heard that same note of deep affection for livestock in many of the real farmers I talk to.