Sentence examples for set affection from inspiring English sources

He gives theoretical credit to Sir Francis Bacon, the 17th-century philosopher, whose self-control strategy was to "set affection against affection, and to master one by another; even as we use to hunt beast with beast".

Despite the mainstream success of the track, there's still an atmosphere of deep set affection that hangs from the shoulders of jungle and instead of destroying it, "Incredible" only helped to widen its scope — and only the snobbiest of purists would ever argue that that's a bad thing.

The askmen.com article recommends that fathers set an "affection quota". It gives an example of how a father might want to show affection three times a week.

It is as if despairing, even of imaginary improvement, I contrive instead to set my affection on the damned world, this very world, as it was and as it is.

Here is how idol is defined by Webster's Dictionary: Any thing on which we set our affections; that to which we indulge an excessive and sinful attachment.

Bailey later became engaged to her boyfriend Peter Thomas, while Zolciak set her affections on football player Kroy Biermann; a conflict between Burruss, Leakes, and Zolciak later ensued while the latter two women embark on a promotional concert tour.

Here's an even bigger potential problem: When the father's wife or partner finds him sitting at the computer instead of doing something with his child, how many will believe him when he says, "I'm just entering today's hugs onto a spreadsheet". As much as I'd like to laugh at this advice, when my oldest was born I tried to avoid becoming a stoic father by setting an affection quota.

Science says all those flowery expressions of undying affection set ablaze by a gaze are founded in physiological fact.

It is set with great affection on an often unloved stretch of the northeast coast, and features a delightful supporting cast, including a grandfather who builds memory palaces.

6 For it would seem that he brought more zeal than was necessary to the study of military science, setting his affections on war as affording a most manifold basis for the practice of virtue, and despising as unsuccessful men those who left it to others.

She handled the business and tended the programs and facilities with skill and affection, setting the tone and high standards for her staff and generations to follow.