Sentence examples for extreme affection from inspiring English sources

Rafter's portrait of MacGregor claims his "master passion [was] an extreme affection of dress and fashion".

Clearly the orchestra regards Mr. Davis with extreme affection; and since it has been associated with him now for more than 50 years, it's like a family relationship.

What emerges most strikingly in our recorded conversations -- conversations that Michael knew would be read by a wide audience, perhaps including his parents -- was the hurt he felt toward his father on the one hand, and the extreme affection he harbored for him on the other.

She had, it is explained, "foreseen difficulties should she actually win, and had therefore admitted such things as her father's shouting and William's sarcasm, and turned them around so as to make them appear expressions of extreme happiness and affection... writing the truth in such a way that it came nowhere near to the actual truth".

Sir Henry and Lady Taylor suffered the extreme fury of her affection.

Her essays examine love within a family, not just the dependable ordinary variety but the extreme renditions in which affection hardens into idolatry, with one human mistaken for a god and another cast as a supplicant.

Much like "Moulin Rouge," as well as P. J. Hogan's "Muriel's Wedding" and Gillian Armstrong's "Starstruck," these movies display an affection for extreme close-ups, eccentric characters and outlandish musical numbers.

Coco has Williams syndrome, a genetic condition that accounts for her angelic features and extreme craving for physical affection — qualities that leave her vulnerable to predators like Uncle Red and whoever strung him up in a tree and let the rats have at him.

Many uninvited but crashed the party with an overflow of love, affection, an extreme sense of loss and a torrent of freely flowing tears.

Karen Horney asserted that low self-esteem leads to the development of a personality that excessively craves approval and affection and exhibits an extreme desire for personal achievement.

Imagine the result if Jonathan Coe's bildungsroman, "The Rotters' Club," had been jazzed up by Patrick McGrath, with his affection for the overheated extremes of passion.