Such anecdotes of physical bravery go to a deeper affinity between the two men: their shared fearlessness in opposing what Orwell called the "smelly little orthodoxies" of the day.
But we know that something important has occurred — a recognition of a deep affinity — and that impression will stay with us despite subsequent evidence to the contrary.
Who is even going to prepare our path?" Adichie, who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel Americanah on 13 March, was born and raised in Nigeria, and is inspired by what she calls "a sense of rootedness" – a deep affinity for her heritage.
Fans of Adele (and Duffy, Amy Winehouse, Emeli Sandé and Paloma Faith) probably know that she is part of the second wave of British women with a deep affinity for American pop and soul music.
As reported by the Washington Post, the Clintons -- both the former President and the current Secretary of State -- have a deep affinity for Haiti, the first independent nation in Latin America.
These experiences of my heritage engendered a deep affinity for other cultures, and in my early twenties, this calling took me to Haiti, then from continent to continent tracking the "ancient ones".
Mr. Monrad said the paintings, whose subjects also include a familiarly Dylan-esque array of gypsies, gangsters and politicians, were "inspired by American realism from the start of the 20th century" and a "deep affinity" with painters like Matisse.
The most interesting strand in Reiss's book is her cultural history, which suggests that "from the earliest records of civilization, humans have felt a deep affinity with dolphins".
Having spent considerable time in Congo, experiencing detention and imprisonment, I have a deep affinity for the struggles of the Congolese.
She has remarked that she doesn't choose her subjects so much as wait for them "to claim me … always creative people of one sort or another for whom I feel a deep affinity.
