Sentence examples for ardent affection for from inspiring English sources

I confess to ardent affection for all of the above, and I was pretty much smiling from ear to ear throughout the musical, which is adapted from a 1907 novel by Roy Horniman.

Although Mr. McNally's ardent affection for, and wide knowledge of, opera is unexceptionable, he has not succeeded in breathing life into the famous figures he is dealing with here.

Speaking of her ardent affection for McCullers, the novelist with "the face of a wise old child, but also of a film noir antihero," Ms. Vega recalls the moment when her 17-year-old imagination was sparked by the searching appeal in McCullers's dark eyes and tough, set mouth.

'Tis as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledg'd lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than for the latter".

The priest had a warm affection for the ignorant populace.

He retains an ardent, patriotic affection for Australia, though, even if he has been away for more than 40 years, and left, like many ambitious men and women of his generation -- the likes of Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries (a k a Dame Edna Everage) -- as soon as he could.

Mr. Linklater's ardent confession of his affection for Adriana's sister, Luciana (Heidi Schreck), echoes a theme that recurs throughout Shakespeare's comedies: the lightning quickness with which love can strike.

Victoria McRae, 21, an ardent royalist who has made her affection for Harry known before, leant in for the kiss after asking Harry to marry her, and he let her plant one on him.

She has a particular affection for puns.

His affection for Shostakovich was symbiotic.

Felicella has affection for the seventies branches.