She was highly selective in her clientele, accepting only learned and scholarly men as her lovers and declining to proffer her affections for mere financial gain; suitors might spend thousands of taels on her to no avail.
Finally, his son, Louis, who was a sea captain and on whom he concentrated the affection of his declining years, died of yellow fever in Havana at the age of 33.
From the decline in affection of one relationship to the growing warmth of another, Facebook users will soon be able to chart their entire conversation history with friends, family and lovers using the company's new communication system.
A decline of affection for Democrats among working class whites is evident in ANES data.
As their personal, social, and practical resources diminish, people are able to compensate for a lot of losses; for example, they may offset declining social participation with love and affection of one who is close, she says.
His new book, "The Declining Significance of Homophobia", describes an atmosphere of affection between male students both gay and straight, who no longer feel they need to act like sport-mad brutes to be accepted by their peers.
Maybe you decided not to ask someone out on a date because you were afraid the object of your affection would decline.
According to his widow, Dori Ghezzi, who appeared in the television tribute, "the affection for De André seems to be growing in Italy, not declining".
At the time, she had declined to reciprocate his affections; now, an unmarried drama teacher at Scripps College, she found that her reasons for indifference had become less pressing.
Our results are in accordance with a two-year follow-up study [ 5] showing that adolescent reports of affection towards parents declined, for fathers from the 6th to 8th grades and for mothers from the 8th to 10th grades.
(Expressing what he called "enormous affection" for Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Chernin declined to discuss the phone hacking scandal that has shaken News Corporation's newspaper operation, and upper management, since his departure).
