Sentence examples for elective affinity from inspiring English sources

Hindu nationalists feel an elective affinity with Israel for its apparently uncompromising attitude to Muslim minorities.

The title of his most recent publication, HerzAsphaltMorder GrubenRhapsod ie, HeartAsphalt MurdererPitsRhapsodie, does suggest an elective affinity not only with the daemonism of Ireland.

In 2008, Clinton won West Virginia with sixty-six per cent of the vote to Obama's twenty-five per cent, which had been read as a sign of her elective affinity with the white working class.

Society had decreed race to be a matter of natural law, but he wanted race to be an elective affinity, and it was never going to be a fair fight.

One can hope; shared joy is the best kind, and this may be one of those moments when the emotional and historic qualities of a moment converge, and the political matches the romantic — an elective affinity.

It isn't a matter of seeing patterns but of seeing directors (as if present and holding forth on the other side of the screen) and identifying with them — not by self-abnegation but by elective affinity and imaginative sympathy.

"There are some similarities and elective affinities".

By Hilton Als Zoe Caldwell as an Upper East Side hostess in "Elective Affinities".

"Elective Affinities," which runs through Sunday, is sold out.

The same might be said about elective affinities between people in general.

"That's when I'll pick up and struggle with St. Thomas Aquinas, or 'Elective Affinities,' by Goethe," he said.