Sentence examples for natural affections from inspiring English sources

As a love poet, he developed a fresh and original treatment of the situations of courtly love and, ultimately, in such poems as the popular "Unter der Linden," achieved a free, uninhibited style in which the poses of court society gave way before the natural affections of village folk.

Unskilled, low-paid work, depending upon an archaic notion of the "natural" affections of women, nothing speaks more truthfully of our indifference to those who require not efficiency or productivity gains (that, after all, is the rationale behind recourse to gastrostomy, feeding tubes attached to the stomach), but tenderness and the touch of loving hands.

So when we subject affections to moral judgment, we approve most highly of the natural affections.

Those that evoke approving moral sentiments are the other-directed, natural affections.

These are the "natural affections," although there are also self-directed and even totally "unnatural affections" (e.g., "Inquiry" 196).

Moreover, those of our pleasures that are mental lie fully within our control, and so presumably does the cultivation of the natural affections.

Philostorgy means natural affection.

A Valentine's Day tweet from Barack to Michelle evoked their natural affection and mutual respect.

The top-grossing movies have become a regular feature of news reports, encouraging Hollywood's natural affection for megahits.

They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grand-children.

The real point is that Huck does think that he's doing wrong; it's not that his natural heart teaches him to do right but that his natural affection makes him not care.