Sentence examples for less affection from inspiring English sources

Others, with even less affection, simply called him "Nigger Hamilton".

Big companies rake in higher profits but win far less affection from most Americans.

There is less affection for the current players, the way things are going.

Some of our critics, I regret to say, have shown less affection for details.

They have shown distinctly less affection for J Street, the newly formed lobbying group intended as a counterweight to AIPAC.

If I felt less affection for my characters, they would probably not seem funny to me anymore.

Less -- affection, caring, friendship, the small favors of a husband for a wife after 30 years of marriage -- is far more.

Indeed, as Connie Bruck points out, "the culture of MCA bore no small resemblance to the Mafia's": loyalty ruled and was rewarded, betrayal went unforgiven.This portrait is inspired less by affection than by awe.

I still "consume" (forgive the verb) magazines, but differently, with less nerdy affection, and without subscriptions: usually on an iPad or phone, or piecemeal articles online, or weekend supplements over breakfast.

There is less personal affection for Cameron in his party than there is for Miliband in Labour, the difference being that Conservative rebels have more confidence in the salesmanship of their leader and in his malleability under pressure.

Eventually, as the 13 songs (in under 32 minutes) start to add up, Ms. Cosentino's pledges of love — along with scattered details about her man's indifference — start to sound less like affection than like self-absorbed, nearly deranged obsession: "All I do is think about you all the time," she sings.