Sentence examples for a secret affection from inspiring English sources
"a secret affection" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English
Example: Jane had always harbored a secret affection for her best friend's brother, but she was too afraid to confess her feelings.
Then again, I wondered if perhaps Mr. Stern, whose résumé includes engagements with several major symphony orchestras, had always harbored a secret affection for '80s pop?
There's something of the old-fashioned showman about Hytner: highbrow and lowbrow isn't a distinction he values (he claims to enjoy Diana Krall as much as Haydn, and admits a secret affection for trashy pop).
While the conventions of soap operas both nocturnal and diurnal regularly milk this kind of subject matter, even straight men allergic to the Lifetime network may profess a secret affection for, say, "Brian's Song," the classic television movie about the early death of the pro football player Brian Piccolo.
Astrov, a local doctor and the object of Sonya's secret affection, is miserable because he works too hard and can't have a nice evening without being called to some emergency.
These characters often referred to one another: against her better judgment, Vaginal Davis pined for Clarence, a rabid white supremacist; Clarence, too, harbored secret affections.
When one has a secret rendezvous with the object of their mutual affection, the other feels betrayed.
We can see the outline here of Derrida's deconstruction not only of the hearing-oneself-speak auto-affection but also of the auto-affection of the promising-to-oneself to keep a secret.
There's always a hitch; usually the hero has a secret weakness that only the heroine can handle and that ensures that she alone can hold his affection.
Allegedly a secret show, though it was broadcast live on NPR, the evening was a strange dance between a loving audience and a slippery object of affection.
There's a secret behind the secret.
