Sentence examples for remote affection from inspiring English sources
But while the relationship with one's predecessors may begin with a kind of remote affection, it can easily devolve into something more fraught, often on account of their ad hoc home improvements.
"All in all, the old man looked like the primal nerd, which was exactly what he was," writes Mr. Goodell, though he comes to regard his remote grandfather with surprising affection by the time this sad, enveloping book is over.
Margo's nickname in her family is "Sprite," and she has the cautious, defensive nature of a woodland animal — she rarely speaks, she always observes and her affections are remote ones.
She enthuses about community-based housing associations and co-operatives meeting local needs, rather than faceless, remote social landlords, then recalls with affection a rewarding, 20-year teaching career before entering the Scottish parliament in 1999.
Kate Valk's lips, via one of two video monitors hanging from the ceiling, had a sultry, sometimes creepy cameo as "This Girl," the remote object of Mr. Schneider's distracted, self-involved affection.
Beyond a man's immediate household, the affection gradually diminishes until he becomes "but little interested" in the well-being of those who are "very remote".
