Sentence examples for peculiar affinity from inspiring English sources

6. Suppression orders and secret hearings Australian courts have a peculiar affinity for suppression orders.

In McCarthy's lexicon, Taft was not merely wrong, he was in the enemy camp and was showing a "peculiar affinity for Nazism".

Mr. Paterson, for instance, has a peculiar affinity for issuing multiple endorsements, even in races in which he has encouraged one candidate to run.

Moreover, the self-excoriating temperament of many artists fosters a peculiar affinity for politicians who would not hesitate to send them — among many others — to the flames or the chains.

It was Frank O'Connor who noted the peculiar affinity of the short story for what he called "submerged populations": marginal, isolated figures such as Chekhov's clerks, Maupassant's prostitutes or Sherwood Anderson's provincial schoolteachers, eking out thin existences at the edges of society.

Although she was on close terms with the most respectable members of the British establishment - from Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh (who said her beauty "ran through the room like a peal of bells") to Sir John Betjeman - she admitted having a peculiar affinity with Hitler.

Glucose tranporters, or GLUTs, are a family of 13 proteins that facilitate the transport of sugars and have a peculiar distribution in different tissues as well as a particular affinity for substrates.

All the antibody fragments seemed to bind DNA similarly, in peculiar two-affinity states.

At the same time, Tom feels a peculiar sense of affinity with Danny.

However, using Peak Force Tapping techniques (PFT-AFM) revealed peculiar morphologies upon the affinity and the interfacial compatibilization between the blend components.

The smiling soul of compassion and the small, wrinkly being of peculiar descent with an affinity for plants; or, on the other hand, Elliott and E.T.? As things turned out, it was no contest.