Sentence examples for abiding affair from inspiring English sources

These drives might more happily have been the comic excesses of Priapus (Cheever was "the horniest man [she] ever met" attested the actress Hope Lange, with whom he had an abiding affair), but even sex, like social class, tormented him.

The city has an abiding love affair with the book.

It was, he accepted, not a deep-abiding love affair.

(Though this statement may sound dubious in regard to Buffalo Bill, Jonnes credits him with inspiring the abiding "French love affair" with the Wild West. Which, moreover, had some surprising early adopters: "After attending the Wild West show, Paul Gauguin bought a Stetson to wear").

And, while you're struggling to do better, rediscover an abiding interest in foreign affairs.

He has wanted for years to quit the party leadership and devote his remaining active years - he is 64 - to his family, and to his abiding passion for international affairs.

Krugman, who grew up in a middle- class family on Long Island, first studied economics at Yale, with William Nordhaus and the late James Tobin, two liberal scholars who combined technical prowess with an abiding interest in public affairs.

It's a mixed affair, with the abiding feeling that the context is worthwhile even if the content needs work.

Such an abiding and stable state of affairs is now being challenged – something that is long overdue.

Foreign Secretary William Hague, the minister responsible for GCHQ, said: "A senior and fully independent judge has looked in detail at whether the interception agencies 'misuse their powers to engage in random mass intrusion into the private affairs of law abiding UK citizens'.

If there's one thing that the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair shows, it's the abiding code of omertà that has long prevailed.