Sentence examples for affections from inspiring English sources

'affections' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a strong feeling of fondness or love for someone or something. For example, "He had no affections for the sport, and so chose to quit the team."

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Furthermore, the Stagirite speaks of four species of quality (habits and dispositions, natural capacities and incapacities, affective qualities and affections, figures and shapes), without explaining how they are related to one another and to the highest genus of the category.

In fact, (1) figures and shapes are those perceptible qualities which inhere in substances because of the mutual position of its quantitative parts, while affective qualities and affections inhere in substances because of the form itself of the substantial composite.

Has upset fans in the past with controversial comments on social media but is playing his way back into the nation's affections.

And looking like a winner is no guarantee of Labour's affections: Neil Kinnock, who led it to two election defeats, is more popular among its ranks than Mr Blair, who presided over three stonking victories.Moreover, Unite, Britain's largest union, boasts it is signing up 1,000 of its members as Labour affiliates every day.

Unlike many stars, Mr Rajkumar has not trifled with the affections of his public by living ostentatiously or entering politics.

Woody the cowboy, its hapless hero, stood up for traditional toys after having been bumped from his place in the affections of a small boy by the flashier appeal of Buzz Lightyear, a chromium-coated space ranger.

The sight of one in a field can be enough to rekindle atavistic affections that lie deep within.

ALONG with lawyers, estate agents and journalists, the pharmaceutical industry occupies an unenviable position near the bottom of the public's affections.

She had fallen in love with them, transferring her affections from sea sponges, when she had to babysit a few in the lab at Yale.

Europe's love affair with Tintin is more revealing than most.Any exploration of Tintin's hold on continental affections must start not with culture, but with history.

And the religious right is continuing to gain strength: groups such as the Ohio Restoration Project boast of registering 300,000 people.Ohio has a particular place in Karl Rove's affections, not just because it tipped the 2004 election but also because it was home to his hero, Mark Hanna, another political mechanic who guided a Republican to the White House.

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