Sentence examples for evident affection for from inspiring English sources

The pair share an evident affection for one another.

These elements certainly have a place in this movie, as does the director's evident affection for the music and idioms of the South.

The filmmakers' evident affection for the book expresses itself as a desperate scramble to include as much of it as possible, which leaves the movie feeling both overcrowded and thin.

The scenes in the diner are gently funny, and Levinson's evident affection for his characters makes you want to like them, too, but in the end "Sixty-six" resembles its callow narrator, coming up short on energy, depth, and purpose.

Indeed, those who are new to the play, or in general to pyrotechnical Shavian wit, may very well be perplexed by Shaw's evident affection for the crafty monster he has created.

"The filmmakers' evident affection for the book expresses itself as a desperate scramble to include as much of it as possible, which leaves the movie feeling both overcrowded and thin," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in December.

In fact, his statement could be construed as a figure of speech whose real meaning was that, owing to the evident affection of the neighborhood for Medina's "Aurora," the sculpture had been tagged with such a small amount of graffiti as to constitute almost no graffiti at all.

We chatted with Knight over email to ask about the evident affection she has for robots and her hopes for a festival that maintains to be the first of its kind.

These veteran actors, who deliver smoothly expert performances, have been directed with evident affection, uncommon vision and enormous respect for the Pinteresque by Bonnie J. Monte, the company's longtime artistic director.

"Black Dynamite" was made with evident affection and a modicum of visual wit — Mr. Sanders's nose for aged cinematic cheese is impressive — but the movie wears itself out long before The Man gets his comeuppance.

Most significant, every subject is viewed with evident affection, or at least sympathetic scrutiny.