Sentence examples for sort of affection from inspiring English sources

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.

All I knew about Ludo, from his session that morning, was that he'd been profoundly affected by his father's inability to express any sort of physical affection, his "wall of silence".

My British friends looked at their athletes with a sort of downcast affection.

Imagine looking at a photo of a stranger and feeling in response, quite naturally, the sort of happy affection you might feel towards a spouse.

It's his mother he writes to most, in letters peppered with the sort of lavish affection and extravagant proclamations that most people reserve for lovers.

Mr. Cox said he hoped the Nomad would evoke the same sort of personal affection and clubby bond among owners as the Mini.