Sentence examples for affection her from inspiring English sources

Alison Mosshart inhabits the role of a lead singer cagily, at once beckoning and rebuffing affection; her fellow vocalist Jack White does the same thing, with ruddier results.

While Lillian's mother is delineated with a mixture of anger and affection, her father is decidedly more crudely drawn -- a dimly glimpsed blowhard of a man, obsessed with hunting and drinking, and terminally vexed with his wife and children.

Father issues loom on this album: in "Good Woman Down," she sings about watching her father beat her mother, and in "Father in You," she tells a lover that he needs to supply the affection her father never gave.

In the interests of sparing our blushes, this scene was an amalgam of classic moves: a hard kiss, a breathless "no", he clasping her face in that fantasy space between force and affection, her push away turning seamlessly into its opposite, a segue into bed where miraculously everything was now cool.

I take heart that at least three close friends and I remember with deep affection her finer qualities.

When she made this connection, she felt calmer in handling her daughter and was able to be more present and sensitive to her, offering the affection her baby had been seeking instead of the food she herself had longed for as a child.

She makes Kim thoughtfully young, unembarrassed either by her youth or her affection for her husband.

The account of Churchill's twilight years is vivid and touching, but her affection makes her tolerant of his faults.

Her affection for her husband is nicely peppered with annoyance and impatience at his obsession with death.

Violante Beatrice loved him but Ferdinando did not return her affection, declaring her too ugly and too dull.

Her affection towards her apprentice Septimus is manifest in the novels, as is the responsibility she feels to protect him and his sister, even with her own life.