Sentence examples for discover an affinity with from inspiring English sources

That a Rebel drummer boy might discover an affinity with an escaped slave instead of shooting him would not have been altogether impossible even during the American Civil War.

A successful Wall Street broker who did not discover an affinity for producing until his early 40's, Mr. Osterman made his Broadway debut in 1956 as a backer of "Mr. Wonderful," the hit comedy with Sammy Davis Jr.

Aged nine, he visited Loch Lomond with his family, where he reportedly discovered an affinity for the outdoors, and a few months later the family moved to a new council house on an overspill estate at Pollok.

In the process he discovered an affinity for television transformations.

But the show's central focus is Elphaba, who soon discovers an affinity for the oppressed of Oz.

Borneman was widely read in European literature and, once settled in London, wasted no time bringing himself up to speed with developments in English-language writing, discovering a particular affinity with Hemingway and Joyce, not to mention American crime writers such as Carroll John Daly and Dashiell Hammett.

This is a whited-out view of America, black neighbourhoods bleached to the point of erasure, just like the affliction visited on everyone in José Saramago's 1995 novel Blindness, in which Graham discovered a telling affinity with his own work.

I always had an affinity with science, but it was the desire to discover these unanswered questions about space that led me to a career in astrophysics.

Von Trier himself – last seen in Cannes expressing an affinity with Hitler – is "a very sweet man" who "lets you discover your character and the relationships and the scenes on your own.

Do you feel an affinity with him?

Francis feels an affinity with them.