Sentence examples for displaced affection from inspiring English sources

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We wound up living in western Massachusetts, less than a mile from the Connecticut River — a body of water that, despite many attempts on my part, refused to accept my displaced affection.

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Unlike Kate, Larry's girlfriend, Ann Deever Katie Holmess, making her Broadway début), has no illusions about Larry's return, and has already displaced her affections to Chris.

There was a unique affection, I think partly because they didn't have children and hadn't had their affections displaced.

Among the possessions left behind was a pink rabbit which had been Judith's comforter before it was displaced in her affections by a woolly dog.

While not disgraced, Davis had been displaced in ex-Confederate affection after the war by his leading general, Robert E. Lee.

Which pissed off some of the older artists he displaced in the public affection who had come of age in the previous decades.

But he hasn't displaced Johnny Kelly in my affections.

Antony, her accidental child, conceived at thirty-nine, was parked with a nanny who displaced her in his affections.

Several of the most celebrated incidents in Maggie's life are said to be taken straight from Mary Anne's own emotionally jagged childhood – the hacking off of her unruly hair with the scissors, the running away to join the Gypsies, the mortification of being displaced in her brother's affections by a new pony.

Only occasionally did I make dumplings like the ones we were eating in Germany, but these have now displaced the Czech style in my affections.

Suggestive of Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" unexpectedly displaced to Essex, east of London, the 26-year-old Mr. Norris examines with rueful affection and clear-eyed pathos the stresses on a long-term marriage when the husband, soon to be 70, takes a lover and then becomes gravely ill.

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