Sentence examples for combination of affection from inspiring English sources

The combination of affection and goggling outrage with which Jarrell paints his subjects is endearing, as well as painfully funny.

As with Rudolph's utterly different building in New Haven, the Eldridge Street Synagogue has been restored with a combination of affection and rigor, and it looks magnificent.

When Millepied makes an appearance at Lincoln Center these days, his former peers greet him with a combination of affection and gentle ribbing.

For instance, Wu (2009) points out that "family life is a combination of affection and politics".

However, such experiences left Joyce undaunted; the polar historian Beau Riffenburgh writes that Joyce was repeatedly drawn to the Antarctic by "a curious combination of affection and antipathy" that "impelled [him] to return again and again".

On Psycho and Let It Bang, Ferg flips seamlessly from wry detachment – retelling his relative's excesses as gags – to something darker and more impassioned: the combination of amusement, affection and horror-struck frustration feels realistic and affecting.

Both are animated by a peculiar combination of maternal affection and killer instincts.

At work here, as in every memification of an establishment figure, was a combination of admiration, affection and playful condescension.

Through the lenses of pop culture and pop psychology, Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, dissects the Bushes with a combination of personal affection and professional contempt.

As the two maids enact their ritual fantasy about killing Madame (Natalie Ballesteros), the volatile combination of envy, affection and loathing they feel toward her is disturbing to behold.

In Germany, the healthcare system does not attract the same unholy combination of vitriol and affection that the NHS does – it just about works so that both the left and the free-marketeers can see in the system what they want.