Sentence examples for certain affection from inspiring English sources

At the very least you have to feel a certain affection for crowds.

IF NO-ONE will miss Saddam Hussein, his information minister will be recalled with a certain affection.

It's a lost era that you can't help having a certain affection for, even if you disapprove politically".

Now, though, as the dinosaurs of rock gradually disappear, there's a certain affection for his magnificently preposterous persona.

"You get into the routine of seeing certain people all the time, and even the people who are your most contentious adversaries you have certain affection for.

Even if he's a buffoon, there's still a certain affection in this portrait — and it may be because Mr. Honeywell intimately knows whom he's sending up.

"Sometimes, I've heard even brothers and sisters develop certain affections," he suggests, as the pair walk through a balmy courtyard accompanied by four royal guards.

If a parallelism between ear and eye is extendable to this aspect, this could open new perspectives in the treatment of certain affections of the inner ear by borrowing therapeutic strategies that have given appreciable and consolidate responses in the treatment of degenerative retinopathy.

Also, given the naturalness of certain affections, we come to expect others to act on them, and so pain is caused by deviations from these expectations (439).

"Happiness consists in the Gratification of certain Affections, Appetites, Passions, with Objects which are by Nature adapted to them," (Sermon IX §16).

The magical creature who grants the wishes here is mischievous and unpredictable, but not without a certain redeeming affection for the waitress.