The phrase "close affinity with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a deep connection or understanding between two people, two groups, or two things. For example, "The two poets share a close affinity with each other's work."
You could sense the players' close affinity with each work.
Until then, humans had a close affinity with nature.
The cultural regions of Bihar show a close affinity with the linguistic regions.
It is not based on any close affinity with the president-elect, as it was with Mr Reagan.
"I've always had a close affinity with the brand of Perth Glory, from the days it emerged so spectacularly back in 1996," he says.
Nevertheless, we feel a close affinity with all our colleagues within the EU and, on balance, feel it would be favourable for Britain to remain within it.
On Bornholm, outcroppings reveal close affinities with geologic formations in southern Sweden.
Some of the Exodus fragments from Qumrān demonstrate that it has close affinities with a pre-Christian Palestinian text type and testify to the faithfulness with which it has been preserved.
There, Ms. Orlin established a signature style, one that has close affinities with European dance theater — her debt to Pina Bausch is often clear —in its absurdist drama, while remaining linked to her own culture.
The future looked bright... Screen violence, we might notice, has close affinities with the weapons business, and, to borrow an aging phrase from the nuclear-arms community, is often technology-led....O Mentions "Bullitt" (1968), which still has an unsurpassed car-chase, and "Schindler's List," which represents a retrogression in violence.
Unsurprisingly, tap dancers often had close affinities with drummers, and in the Nicholas's case it was their father Ulysses who, as a pit musician backed up by his wife Viola on stride piano, rhythmically challenged anyone and everyone, including their sons.
