This vacancy is what makes the lover weary of her quickly; but it is the source of the mystery, the charm, that seduces him and makes him inclined to feel an easy affection in the first place.
Whatever criticisms Saudis have of their government - and corruption and waste are perhaps chief among these - most citizens, I have found, feel an extraordinary affection for their king.
African nations feel a genuine affection and loyalty towards Blatter.
But I still feel a strange affection for it, and this quote probably explains why.
At the very least you have to feel a certain affection for crowds.
But you might well, as I did, feel a sneaking affection for the old thing.
And Mr. Breinberg, in turn, seems to feel a deep affection for his singers.
I feel a deep affection for Mary Gordon's novel "Final Payments," about a young woman mourning her father.
"We may profess to hate our class system, but we cannot help but feel a wry affection for it," he wrote.
Indeed, to be in that playhouse at a sold-out matinee one recent Wednesday was to feel a shared affection between a performer and his public that is only rarely found nowadays.
