The answer, surely, is a feeling of affinity — mainly, I'd say, based on shared anger and dislike.
I've sat in rugby grounds shouting my head off for England while the Scottish fans have shouted back just as loud – and it is a very special thing when good-natured rivalry can flourish side by side with a feeling of affinity and closeness that comes from being a family of nations.
AKP promotes a feeling of affinity with the Sunnite Muslim Arab Syrian refugees in comparison to other refugee groups from Syria and Iraq.
Fewer people thus experience what Lopez calls "the complex feelings of affinity and self-assurance one feels with one's native place", and there is a diminished sense of interest in any place in particular, outside one's immediate, and often temporary, domestic sphere.
The maternal version of the PPSS instrument contains 18 items concerning the week following delivery which include questions regarding staff attitudes, attention, information and advice given, physical and psychological health, feelings of participation in care, feelings of affinity within the family, availability of care providers, experiences of breastfeeding, and feelings of security.
Establishing a connection is not only helpful to the recipient, but may also promote feelings of affinity with you that might increase the chances of your request being granted.
What drew me to the region and language was a feeling of deep personal affinity: My mother was born in Baghdad.
And the show not only gives a human face to this reality of straight women with gay men as their "best friends forever" (BFFs), but the show also highlights our universal yearning for a person with whom we have a feeling of deep and natural affinity, love, intimacy, spirituality, and compatibility -- irrespective of race, gender and sexual preferences.
Many of them mentioned feeling an affinity to Israel as another beleaguered outpost in the midst of bigger enemies.
When I watch "War Horse," I can't help feeling an affinity for the idea of a puppet soul.
Advertisers are leading with very specific sales pitches -- percentages off or special sales -- instead of trying to evoke a feeling or affinity".
