Sentence examples for both affection from inspiring English sources

Ms. Stapinski shows both affection and disdain toward her birthplace.

Watching the apron circulate through the room as an object of both affection and ridicule, the Colonel realizes that, once things begin, his daughter will become a target.

Or, as Ms. Kemraj sums up the situation with both affection and understatement: "My mother lives in her own dreamy little world.

On an icy weekday afternoon, Nakusii Goodman, 11, was demonstrating on his brother, Shameek, 8, how a hug can be a form of both affection and torment.

Chaudhuri currently returns for much of each year to help tend his ailing father, and this insider-outsider status allows him to probe the city's eccentricities with both affection and unease.

In a string of interviews after his initial comments to a Republican fundraiser on Wednesday night, Giuliani rehashed conservative attacks on the president and insisted Obama lacked both affection for the country and knowledge of world history.

The images from these never-to-be movies were then mailed out widely like publicity materials, a project that, as the film scholar David E. James notes in the show's catalog, articulated deeply "both the affection and the anger, the desire and the hatred" the collective's members had for the movies, in which people who looked like them were almost never seen.

From the opening ensemble number, in which an alarmed homeowners' chorus pleads in panic, set to a jangly tune, for the rescuing attentions of the local exterminator, the music, by Laurence O'Keefe and the lyrics, by Nell Benjamin, evoke both an affection for and an arch amusement with out-of-it, mundane Midwestern-ness.

There's a smile in his voice as he says it, an affection both for the failure of the image and for its good intentions.

David Cameron and Hunt both profess their affection for the BBC, but they are also frustrated by its reluctance to cut executive pay – Mark Thompson is paid twice what his predecessor, Greg Dyke, received.

Here's how to know if you're both pulling your weight in the friendship: See if you both show affection.