Sentence examples for just affection from inspiring English sources

It is not just affection for the animals that keeps him in the danger zone.

It's not just affection for leather and brass that drives the fascination; harnessing the power of steam broke humans out of what William Rosen calls the "Malthusian trap" that had kept mankind ever on the brink of famine and collapse.

To write well about India, however, one needs more than just affection; and what is missing in this book is evidence, so present in A Million Mutinies Now, of a struggle to understand India and one's own place in it.

I don't envy Colin Firth's having to compete with this monster, but he holds his own; you catch in his eye not just affection but, more subversively, a semi-suppressed amusement at the whole exhausting charade of modern romance.

Thanks to Ms. Ringer, whose two curtain speeches contained not one "um" or "er," the applause was motored by not just appreciation but affection and pride too.

They play partners in an atrophied relationship that might have sprung from a middle-class, boomer-marriage surveillance tape: Kay (Ms. Streep) is gentle but fed up, tired of a life that's not just sexless but affection free.

But we soon learned Greene's meanness was just an affection, that he was actually a sweet guy who could show real affection for the small white kid.

I think he just wanted affection, on whatever level".

There was also an alienation of experience, not just of affection.

Eight out of 10 of the men I see don't actually want to have sex with me, some just want affection and someone to talk to.

This uncompromisingly bleak comedy, about a couple of junkies drifting around Dublin on the lookout for a fix or some cash or just some affection from someone, has an impressive conviction.