Sentence examples for shifting affection from inspiring English sources

While the banana seller's option would at long last reaffirm the maharajah's decision, Mr. Ahmed made it clear that his choice was a reluctant one, brought about not by shifting affection but by a hard-nosed calculation that nothing but pain has come with the rebels, increasingly Muslim "jihadis" from outside the territory who have come to wage a holy war.

The crowd, announced at 82,845, began the night chanting for Griffin but shifted its affection toward Morris, a sixth-round draft pick from Florida Atlantic who drives the preferred car of 1,613-yard 1,613-yarderushers, a 1991 Mazda 626.

Perhaps Mr. Dauman was simply buying time, hoping that the mercurial Mr. Redstone might again abruptly shift his affections.

"Passion," which features Mr. Lapine's most accomplished book for a musical, must trace Giorgio's change in his perception of what love is as he shifts his affections from Clara (Rebecca Luker in this version), his ravishing mistress, to the unlikely and unprepossessing Fosca.

But then Mr. Rennie is so sweet and he makes such a handsome gesture of telling his disapproving mother where to go that she finds her affections shifting.

In a touching and funny conversation in which Ray and Warren drunkenly parse the sequence of events that led to Sharky's shifting of her affections, Mr. Bekins and Mr. Sherman, who brings a bitterly wry deadpan to Warren's sense of helplessness, are pained and self-deprecating.

The subtle shifts in affection, the accrual of resentment, the physical and intellectual competition on view here are remarkable – never has female friendship been so vividly described.

Both the Panem rulers and their rebel opponents devote much time to their relationships with the masses, whose affections shift towards and away from Katniss.

He used these qualities to influence Empress Catherine the Great not just during the few years when he was her lover, but as her confidant when her affections shifted.With the monarch's approval, Potemkin colonised Crimea, did battle with the Ottoman empire and dreamed up an ambitious plan for reinstating a Christian emperor in Constantinople.

Anne's affections shifted from Sarah, who she had known since she was a little girl and who had been her protector since she was a younger princess, to Abigail.

The motivations for these interfaith alliances were dictated by shifting diplomacies, pragmatic self-interest, realpolitik, and even genuine mutual affection, not by jihad or religious war.