Sentence examples for peculiar affinity for 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.

A minority affected flat bones and short tubular bones of the hand and foot, with a peculiar affinity for the calcaneus and talus [1].

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.

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.

Harris has a special affinity for animals.

Ryan said he had a special affinity for Stewart.

Mr. Frelinghuysen may have a special affinity for greenery.

Do you have a particular affinity for Shakespeare?