Sentence examples for domestic affection from inspiring English sources

John Ansell, Thame, Oxfordshire Lucia is the daughter of novelist James, a black hole who swallows both the world's attention and domestic affection in industrial quantities.

Not bred to domestic affection, he intermittently craved company and even took a quasi-paternal interest in the children of friends, but, throughout his life, he found emotional intimacy extremely difficult and physical intimacy, apparently, impossible.

Here, though, I've plucked a photograph from the movement that draws its strength less from struggle than from domestic affection, which seems well-suited to file under "Thanksgiving": an image from Grey Villet's 1965 series, for Life magazine, on Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple in Central Point, Virginia, who helped to end the interminable era of anti-miscegenation statutes.

Feel and touch and pressure are constants throughout this selection, whether it's the longing of a hawk for "the feel... / Of catcher and of caught / Upon your wrist"; the swimmer who remembers "the pull and risk / Of the Pacific's touch... Its cold live sinews tugging at each limb"; or simply the "secure firm dry embrace" of longtime domestic affection.

Can any one wonder that there is among these classes of the people so little intelligence,—so slight an approach to humanity, so total an absence of domestic affection, and of moral and religious feeling?

In private, carte de visite portraits were commemorations of domestic affections, but they also mark a visual and political claim to national belonging.

Moreover, in his Reply to Parr, he insists that these extraordinary cases are unlikely to shake the domestic affections in the ordinary intercourse of life.

Mortality and domestic relations, affection and obligation, had preoccupied Heaney throughout his work, and were frequently sounded together.

It's a gag as old as the silent comedies but, like all Magritte's films, touching in its domestic playfulness and affection.

The truth seems to be that for many, fellow parents or not, the companionate affection that domestic life may engender is no substitute for the flush of passion.

In paintings such as Moving House (1876), News from the Front (1878), and A Game of Preference (1879), he presented with evident affection closely observed domestic scenes and characters from an array of social backgrounds.