Sentence examples for grave affection from inspiring English sources

It would be terrible if computer editing wiped out the proper emotional resistance to making a cut — the lingering grave affection for a face, a landscape, an interior, even the resonance of an empty space.

Scolding Octavius, dismissing Lepidus as no more serviceable a soldier than his horse, acknowledging an order from Caesar, greeting the conspirators with the grave affection that masks a poisonous vitriol, he conveys a casual potency.

His condition did not prevent him from delivering a witty speech at the closing dinner; nor did it interfere with the calm, grave affection with which he greeted old friends and co-workers.

I need not have brought anything, so eloquent was the grave itself of affection in the making of it.

He felt it was a grave mistake to show affection to a child, since that would only enhance the child's emotional attachment to the parent and make it more difficult for the child to grow into an independent adult.

The evidence of enduring affection at his grave is in contrast to the gloomy mood and hulking headstone that signifies the end of William Bosss" Tweed, City Hall's thieving politician who died in 1878.

There are many possible scenarios to explain the Natufian grave--including a bond of affection between human and pup.

Still, he gazes at her photo with affection and brings flowers to her grave, where he conducts loving (if one-sided) conversations.

At one point, the couple believed that Calvin's first wife, for whom Harriet had great affection, was communicating with them from beyond the grave.

Commiseration and communion, however fleeting, are thus given their place in the human enterprise, a reminder that life on this side of the grave is ultimately redeemable (and endurable) only through alliance and affection.

Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.