Sentence examples for a sort of affection from inspiring English sources

Serving up cheap comfort treats, this is a big corporate that's won a sort of affection.

Whereas mine is a clumsy but affable sort of stupid thing that I've got a sort of affection for". For other songs on "The Impossible Bird," Lowe stuck to the principle that they should be about "everybody" and not just about recent sad times in his own life.

A: Sort of.

There has been little in Baker's writing to indicate an interest in television, let alone any sort of affection for it, but last week he said, "In America, if you're not on television, somehow you're not an American.

Throughout, "Thanksgiving" doesn't shy away from showing Catherine's hurt and confusion toward her daughter: with expert directing from Melina Matsoukas and a powerful performance from Bassett, we watch how Catherine's visibly uncomfortable as her daughter interact with her girlfriend Michelle (Ebony Obsidian), tilting her head and subtly glaring when Denise shows any sort of affection.

My British friends looked at their athletes with a sort of downcast affection.

Then he poured iodine on a hot towel and scrubbed Sam's forehead with a rough sort of affection.

It is a bruised sort of affection, like the residue of many years with an intense but difficult lover.

He even elicits a weird sort of affection as he draws out his finger and utters an earnest "bang" to desperate effect, finishing with a little blow on his finger as though it were a smoking gun, his lower lip pushed out in defiance as his attackers swarm and ultimately overtake him.

Then, there are the thugs, whom New Orleanians call, with a sort of good-natured affection, knuckleheads.

"There is a very odd sort of affection for the events of last year," said Walt Crowley, a Seattle historian who runs a public affairs site on the Web, Historylink.org, that has had a camera on the events of last year and this year.