Sentence examples for peculiar affection from inspiring English sources

But the newspapers, with pages and pages of coverage, reflected the peculiar affection that Black held for the baby boom generation.

Viking; 512 pages; £25$35 (to be published in America in July)DESPITE Britain's peculiar affection for military history, it is not often that tales of battleground strategy and tactics reach the very top of the lists of bestselling non-fiction.

Fashion has a peculiar affection for dramatic lives, so it's no surprise there are three Chanel biographies: "An Intimate Life," by Lisa Chaney (Viking); "Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War," by Hal Vaughan (Knopf); and "Intimate Chanel," co-written by her grand-niece, Gabrielle Palasse-Labrunie (Rizzoli).

There is also revulsion, awe and, in the end, a peculiar kind of affection.

Many left the game, but most of them returned to him occasionally, as if there existed a peculiar bond of affection that could not be broken, something unique that they did not find elsewhere".

This contrasts with De Anima, which introduces as a question for consideration "whether all affections are common to what has the soul or whether there is some affection peculiar to the soul itself" (De Anima i 1, 402a3 5).

Both are animated by a peculiar combination of maternal affection and killer instincts.

In the story a sexual exchange unfolds between a couple whose way of showing affection is peculiar and not without pain, but, as we later observe through the eyes of the voyeur recounting the scene, it is also not without love.

On planet canine, swarms of spectators who were anxious for animal affection hung around with breeders, who discussed the peculiar particulars of their profession.

Lauren had the peculiar feeling that it was she who'd had her affections spurned, not the other way around.

It is a peculiar sense of awe that Wimbledon feels for Federer, a covetous, cooing kind of affection that still seems to have about it an aspirational feel, a public declaration of high spec, premium-badged authenticity.