Mr. Brown and his band, the Soul Searchers, are still a big draw, and though the crowds at their weekly shows at clubs like the DC Tunnel and 9 30 Club may be smaller than they were in the 1980's, the hard-core fans' affection for the sound has, if anything, intensified.
"I told you years ago that the people are rotten to the core". And this affection was returned.
A genre survives because of the indestructible affection of its core base of followers.
Whatever Messier's ambitions, Vivendi was a French company at its core, and his avowals of affection for the American way of life and business did little to change that in a country so adamantly fearful of le Big Mac-ification.
The core of the word is affect, same as in affection; the usual sense is "to lose affection for".
Throughout the visit, he showed compassion, affection and interest, which represent core values to help children around the world to thrive.
The milk cows are at the core of the business and the care and affection shown to farm animals was striking in encounters with traditional farmers in the present field studies.
"Passion" and "affection" were both terms whose etymology and core meanings emphasised passivity, suffering, and disease.
Fatuously and foolishly romantic but with a slowly revealed core of cynical pragmatism, Lavinia doesn't usually command our affections.
Arguably, the core attraction has always been the family's gleefully eccentric personalities, their affection for quality and their dedicated cultivation of lesser-known talents, which has kept the store vibrant as long as its doors have been open.
