Sentence examples for affair not only from inspiring English sources

Hence the love affair, not only with 18th- and 19th-century architecture, which influenced Stalinist building too, but with Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

The affair not only bankrupted his marriage but also created a battlefield between the two Dickinson households and affected the publication of Emily's poetry.

It measures the day-by-day emotional cost of the affair: not only to Anna and Domenico, who are increasingly guilt-ridden and prickly with each other, but also to family, friends and business associates.

The headscarf affair not only showed the limits of intercultural education policy, but also situated secularism – laïcité – at the core of the French Republic as its fundamental value alongside a discourse on individual liberty, religious freedom, human rights, and the emancipation of women.

So a couple should seek professional help to deal with the aftermaths of an affair, not only to possibly heal their relationship but also for their own psychological wellbeing.

These days, theater for Ackerman is a family affair; not only is her husband Steve Kennedy a Broadway sound designer, but sons Jack and George are both active in the Off-Broadway scene.

As recently as two years ago, anyone predicting the current state of affairs (not only is unemployment disastrously high, but most forecasts say that it will stay very high for years) would have been dismissed as a crazy alarmist.

He was extremely active in church affairs, not only as long-time warden of St Margaret's, London W1, but also as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the London Diocesan Fund.

The guardian, James Cahill Jr., says in court filings that those who used to be responsible for Mr. Phillips's financial affairs not only mismanaged them but never paid taxes or filed timely accountings.

The point of the security laws, it said, was to "ride the coattails of Uncle Sam's 'pivot to Asia' strategy and pave the way for Japan to further meddle in regional affairs – not only territorial disputes with its neighbours, but also issues [in] which Japan is not a stakeholder – with the United States, in a sabre-rattling way".

Despite their rocky marriage, she refers to her husband as her best friend, which made it doubly difficult when they were having affairs: "Not only do you feel like you've lost your best friend, but you can't tell him whom you're seeing," she says just halfway joking.