Sentence examples for seeking affection from inspiring English sources

As they stood facing each other, Mr. Varone burrowed his head into Mr. Hahn's chest like a puppy seeking affection.

The picaresque tale revolves around a lovable trickster, seeking affection through helpfulness, whose journey ends when he finds his true calling on the stage.

Britain's top divorce lawyer has said that cheating spouses caught out in the Ashley Madison hack may have simply been seeking affection and companionship "after years of abuse, alienation or rejection".

Guide animals are brutally separated from others of their kind, are discouraged from seeking affection from other human beings and are reduced to a life of perpetual bondage to their masters.

Boo (Marcia DeBonis), a family therapist, is listening to Italian language tapes while her lover, Alice (Hope Chernov), the novelist who fears, correctly, that she is an intellectual impostor, is fluttering about making a pest of herself, insecurely seeking affection.

Perhaps most fundamental is the difficulty of setting oneself up for rejection in the process of seeking affection and support.

Denied paternal love, Commodus must seek affection elsewhere, from the public, his guards, even his sister.

They don't seek affection or love, and they don't like to be petted.

Smarting from constant injustice, Kieron seeks affection from his grandparents, continuing to visit them even after his family has moved to a housing scheme.

Last month a priest was suspended from his parish in Trento after apparently defending paedophilia during a live TV interview, arguing that "children often seek affection".

But the girl's detailed diaries, one investigator said, painted a picture of what seemed to be an equally harrowing life in Harlem, that of a child who seemed driven to seek affection from strangers, mostly older men.