Sentence examples for affection in which from inspiring English sources

Even so, she's not at all convinced by the affection in which she is held.

It's Alan's naiveté which explains the affection in which he's held, and why we root for him.

Rarely has a movie been quite so reliant on the popular affection in which its leading actor is help.

But in the end, all that matters are the poems, and the esteem and affection in which they're held.

But this production makes it clear that what we're hearing is a story, told with both urgency and lyrical affection, in which what's remembered acquires mythic status.

However, if he was unaware of the worldwide affection in which United are held, it will be rammed home by the reaction they receive on their expedition.

In this way, Shaftesbury offers a picture of character formation through a voluntary ordering of our affections, in which the most publicly-directed one becomes the "master-pleasure and conqueror of the rest" ("Inquiry" 202).

In his celebrated, The Varieties of Religious Experience (London 1925, p. 415), Williams James, asked, "Do mystical states establish the truth of those theological affections in which the saintly life has its roots?" This question can be divided into two: (Q1) Is a person warranted in thinking that his or her experiences are veridical or have evidential value?

You can get in big trouble for that, because a lot of schools now have a PDA rule (Public displays of affection rule) in which you could get detention for even hugging a friend.

Because Korean society was so heteronormative that few wouldn't even be able to fathom the idea that homosexuals even existed, let alone show affection in public, which left Gaydar in Korea at the most undeveloped level in the modern world.

Such was the affection and respect in which he was held that Tony Abbott, the Australian prime minister, offered him a state funeral.