The phrase "affection and frustration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling where both positive and negative emotions are present simultaneously.
Example: "Her relationship with her parents was filled with both affection and frustration, as they often clashed over differing values."
Alternatives: "love and annoyance" or "fondness and irritation".
Quirkiness breeds affection and frustration in equal measure.
And the rapport between Grace and Sherry is a perfectly pitched mixture of deep affection and frustration.
The movie does not answer the obvious question of why Rodriguez never received royalties, and the artist's three daughters convey a complicated blend of intense affection and frustration on screen, close to tears almost every time they appear.
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In his affection for and frustration with his fellow Dubliners, Behan wasn't so different from his playwright elder, Sean O'Casey, but the comic skew on "the troubles" that "The Hostage" delivers makes him both generationally and spiritually distinct.
In his affection for and frustration with his fellow Dubliners, Behan wasn't so different from his playwright elder Sean O'Casey, but the comic skew "The Hostage" delivers on "the troubles" makes him both generationally and spiritually distinct.
In the central role of Cora Flood, whose marriage is on the verge of collapse under the pressure of economic and emotional strife, Donna Lynn Champlin hits all the right notes — maternal tenderness and frustration, wifely resentment and affection — cleanly if not always subtly.
On Psycho and Let It Bang, Ferg flips seamlessly from wry detachment – retelling his relative's excesses as gags – to something darker and more impassioned: the combination of amusement, affection and horror-struck frustration feels realistic and affecting.
His family life was happy and satisfying and yet complicated by troubles; his relationship with his wife is revealed to us in every nuance of tender affection, frustration and, on her death, anguish and regret.
There is affection and teasing, celebration and disappointment, resentment and frustration.
Because as easily as they express sadness and frustration, they dole out affection by the bucketload.
