Nelson, however, immediately feels some sort of brotherly affection for Annabelle, and he determines "to give her her father, his father," regaling her with memories, some bitter, some sweet, of Harry.
Somewhere, deep down, there may be some sort of father-daughter affection; they actually seem quite similar in many ways, their humour for example.
After thinking for a few seconds, the only explanation has to be that since Ethan's last name is "Hawke," and hawks are often kept trapt in cages, maybe Ethan Hawke has some sort of Stockholm syndrome affection for the star of "Bangkok Dangerous".
It is a bruised sort of affection, like the residue of many years with an intense but difficult lover.
Then he poured iodine on a hot towel and scrubbed Sam's forehead with a rough sort of affection.
My first glimpse of Clare Short's face across the hotel lobby sparks a rush of the sort of affection ordinarily reserved for a much-loved, long-lost aunt.
There has been little in Baker's writing to indicate an interest in television, let alone any sort of affection for it, but last week he said, "In America, if you're not on television, somehow you're not an American.
Residents speak of "the parish" with the sort of affection usually reserved for a grandfather and are never far from tears when talking about how the storm crushed it.
Jane Austen's free indirect speech, the folding of soliloquy into third-person narration ("She had no hope, nothing to deserve the name of hope, that he could have that sort of affection for herself which was now in question"), marked the first significant breakthrough.
"There is a very odd sort of affection for the events of last year," said Walt Crowley, a Seattle historian who runs a public affairs site on the Web, Historylink.org, that has had a camera on the events of last year and this year.
