REUTERS Hug a Hedge Fund Manager | Traders are useful in markets, and they've had a rough year, so they deserve some affection, writes Sebastian Mallaby in a column in The Financial Times.
"I and others had seen refusal of donation lead to ostracism within a family or donation made as a reluctant sacrifice to someone for whom there was little or no affection," wrote Thomas E. Starzl, the pre-eminent transplant surgeon, in his memoirs.
"To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections," wrote Edmund Burke.
She had, it is explained, "foreseen difficulties should she actually win, and had therefore admitted such things as her father's shouting and William's sarcasm, and turned them around so as to make them appear expressions of extreme happiness and affection... writing the truth in such a way that it came nowhere near to the actual truth".
Although he confesses to a powerful affection for writing pastiche — songs that intentionally evoke previous styles of music — Mr. Sondheim's later works more potently illustrate the continual reach of his musical and lyrical imagination.
"Observe the world with desperate affection," she wrote in the 70's.
This is my humble brag, my bravado, my foolish affection to write the same poem year after year.
They brought "together the meaning of house and of household, of dwelling and of refuge, of ownership and of affection," he wrote.
Simpson and Jobs had a "deep affection," Isaacson writes, though he did like to "berate" her for not wearing "fetching enough" clothes.
To meet her family's charge that he had practiced magic to win her affection, he wrote the Apologia ("Defense"), the major source for his biography.
"So many have cleaved to their libraries with so fond an affection," Porter writes, "and have learned to conceive of them as parts of themselves, as in a sense visible and tangible embodiments of their own being".
