The phrase "affection like" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to compare types of affection, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "She showed affection like a mother would to her child."
Alternatives: "affection similar to" or "affection akin to".
"He liked affection like anybody else.
"My theory is: affection, like baldness, skips a generation".
Even songs that show affection, like "Marie" or "Real Emotional Girl," have a troubled undertow.
The letters from Wagstaff to Mapplethorpe were somewhat childlike, using Wasp terms of affection like Muffin and Wumps.
It is a bruised sort of affection, like the residue of many years with an intense but difficult lover.
"When you say téçi for cité, it is a way of expressing affection, like saying homeland," she added.
Now God, according to theistic belief, is a person: a being who has knowledge, affection (likes and dislikes), and executive will, and who can act on his beliefs in order to achieve his ends.
If you convinced yourself that you like something just because the object of your affection likes it, be honest with yourself and go back to not caring for it.
She also has one of the best lines in the film, delivered to Connor with something approaching affection: "I like you.
If I order two copies of photos of my kids so I can send some to you, that is one manifestation of my affection; I "like" you.
Eventually, as the 13 songs (in under 32 minutes) start to add up, Ms. Cosentino's pledges of love — along with scattered details about her man's indifference — start to sound less like affection than like self-absorbed, nearly deranged obsession: "All I do is think about you all the time," she sings.
