But "Dual Spires" goes past affection to obsession, which seems appropriate when you're saluting one of the weirdest television series ever to survive for 30 episodes in prime time.
He maintains that works which include such descriptions are aesthetically flawed, adding that we neither can nor should enter into their writers' sentiments or "bear an affection to characters, which we plainly discover to be blameable" ("ST," p. 246).
(It has also appeared in the novels of Evelyn Waugh, John Le Carr¿ and Penelope Lively) It was a place for which my mother feels great affection and to which she took us for special treats.
Here is how idol is defined by Webster's Dictionary: Any thing on which we set our affections; that to which we indulge an excessive and sinful attachment.
Sir Michael said: "This visit affords us the opportunity to renew our loyalty and affection to the Crown, which we have held for many hundreds of years.
If "The Joy of Sex" was like "Joy of Cooking" — though in some ways it was closer to Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," what with its strong authorial voice and affection for elaborate undertakings, to which Comfort assigned French names like pattes d'araignée, cuissade, and feuille de rose — "Our Bodies, Ourselves" was like the "Moosewood Cookbook".
He was asked whether he would be aiming his affection at a "lovely lady", to which Timberlake responded, "No.
What does give enjoyment, however, are those particular activities and objects to which our affections are directed, such as friendship and the common good.
It was important for theologians to be able to distinguish between those troubling movements of the soul appetites, lusts, desires, passions that the good Christian should avoid, and those more virtuous and Godly affections of love and compassion to which they might rightly aspire.
He made "American Graffiti," which yielded with affection to the gravitational pull of the small town.
