Sentence examples for a peculiar affinity with from inspiring English sources

Although she was on close terms with the most respectable members of the British establishment - from Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh (who said her beauty "ran through the room like a peal of bells") to Sir John Betjeman - she admitted having a peculiar affinity with Hitler.

A minority affected flat bones and short tubular bones of the hand and foot, with a peculiar affinity for the calcaneus and talus [1].

6. Suppression orders and secret hearings Australian courts have a peculiar affinity for suppression orders.

In McCarthy's lexicon, Taft was not merely wrong, he was in the enemy camp and was showing a "peculiar affinity for Nazism".

Mr. Paterson, for instance, has a peculiar affinity for issuing multiple endorsements, even in races in which he has encouraged one candidate to run.

Apart from the grandiosity of his long-range scheme, Brown differed from the mainstream of Northern abolitionism in his peculiar affinity with the South — both with the blacks he wanted to help liberate and with the slaveholders he wanted to destroy.

At the same time, Tom feels a peculiar sense of affinity with Danny.

The large island of Madagascar, off the eastern coast of Africa, has a peculiar fauna with its affinities mainly to African reptile groups.

The animals produce a peculiar buzz with this technique.

"It put you in a peculiar relationship with other people.

"We Brits have a peculiar relationship with money," he says.