Sentence examples for affection it from inspiring English sources

The sage may be oblivious to the call of the emotions, he explains, and men of inferior nature are incapable of experiencing true affection; "it is precisely in people like us that the deepest and most intense emotions find their place" (Shishuo xinyu 17.4).

When I arrived at work on Monday morning and saw the lead story in the local paper that two young women were told they'd be chucked out of a Sainbury's chain grocery store if they continued to "display public signs of affection"—it stirred a familiar sickness in my gut. .

The fragility of this society and its inability to resist the rhinoceroses only intensifies the pathos and affection it inspires.

As for maternal affection, it simply didn't exist.

The fragility of this society — and its inability to resist the rhinoceroses — only intensifies the pathos and affection it inspires.

The affection, it turns out, is mutual: Mr. Bloomberg wrote a blurb for a book Mr. Johnson wrote.

Cats are easily over-stimulated, and a cat will become anxious or defensive if you try to show it affection when it isn't welcome.

Vaughn's most tender affections, it seemed, were for poisonous animals.

Don still has a hold over Betty's affections, it seems, but the feeling may not be mutual.

It wasn't about acquiring impossible affections; it was about making me happy.

I have such an affection for it because it's given me my whole career.