Sentence examples for it is affection from inspiring English sources
On this basis, an act can be called 'reasonable', but this is not a point on the side of the rationalists, since they hold that reason by itself can motivate, and in this case it is affection, not reason that motivates, that is, that gets us doing something rather than nothing.
"It was affection you just don't see in regular life," Mr. Felix said.
Passion may be powerful, but it's affection that helps couples stay the course.
It was affection for a fading veteran that he had never quite earned in New York as a champion.
"I told her, 'I've fallen in love with a girl.' At first she said it was affection, not love, and then that I wouldn't be able to have children," Marina said.
It's not love, it's affection.
His power to compel affection in fans — and it is true affection, if unusual and less about love than about awe — comes from a different place.
Whatever motivates Franzen's fiction, it isn't affection for his characters; and as we now know from the new book, there seems to be little affection for real people, either.
