"They face each other with curses mixed with affection, smiling and evil-eyed each week for years".
Dakotah felt a rare and even painful rush of affection mixed with pity for Bonita, although she suspected she was only writing out of a sense of duty.
It's a bittersweet experience — the love he feels for her is still genuine and it's still there, but his affection is mixed with the ache of longing and the sting of loss.
When unrequited, the feelings typically dwindle away and eventually disappear, unless the object of their affection sends mixed signals or physical or emotional distance prolongs the intensity and uncertainty (e.g., one partner lives in a different state or is married).
Recently I decided the reason I'm such a huge fan of mixed martial arts beyond my affection for blood-splattered knockouts and tactical submission battles is because it gives me the only opportunity I know of to witness a sport becoming itself.
Many more still were of mixed blood, suggesting that this affection was not completely a misperception on my part.
Ms Packer writes extremely well about the messy nature of Carrie's love for Mike, about her mixed feelings of guilt and selfishness, affection and impatience.
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Despite mixed feelings about Americans here, there is strong affection for the father -- as a man who tried to make peace in Somalia -- that has rubbed off on the son this American election year.
But there is also great affection for the idea of the West mixed in with the criticism, and a great respect too for the passions it inspired.
