Sentence examples for proper affection from inspiring English sources

There's clearly a lot of proper affection between them as well.

It is a misconception to suppose that proper affection for friends and family members necessarily leaves us vulnerable to debilitating emotions when their welfare is threatened.

They spoke with proper roundedness and affection for their father; the daughter described how he had coached her to get into Cambridge, how patient and helpful he had been.

And is the only proper term of affection for your significant other "Mother", as favored by US Vice-President Pence?

We need to have conversations about who we are and valuing each other and respecting boundaries and finding the proper way to express affection.

But Zoe is confident, rightly, that this state of affairs will not last: 'But I did know, or was convinced, that our story would have a happy ending, not realising that there is no proper ending in human affections until time provides an ending to which we must all submit.' (Observe the formidable way the sentence doesn't draw breath until it catches up with its own death).

Although self-partiality tends in the opposite direction, benevolence offsets this tendency and brings benevolent and self-partial affections in proper proportion.

Golden Globe nominee Jack Black is in uncharacteristically restrained form as Bernie Tiede, the prim and proper mortician with a disarming affection for corpses and a  flair for musical theatre, who becomes full-time companion/houseboy to Shirley MacLaine's wealthy widow.

Give your dog affection at the proper time.

A short play of 1630, Pathomachia; or the Battel of Affections, even makes proper taxonomy the motor of what little drama it possesses.

Every line, every character, everything in the books: all is touched with warmth, affection, humour and a proper understanding of the real lives of ordinary folk living in a city that isn't London.