But I try to intercept any affection to which my child does not genuinely and enthusiastically respond.
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.
(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.
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).
While Bullough does hold that aesthetic appreciation requires distance "between our own self and its affections" (Bullough 1995, 298), he does not take this to require that we not undergo affections but quite the opposite: only if we undergo affections have we affections from which to be distanced.
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".
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 was asked whether he would be aiming his affection at a "lovely lady", to which Timberlake responded, "No.
Finally, I threw the last one I owned at the pavement in a fit of tech-rage – aged 14, I think, this time with only slightly improved taste in music – and turned my affections to the latest revolutionary gadget (which turned out to be just as rubbish), the MiniDisc player.
