Sentence examples for sort of affinity from inspiring English sources

"You know when you meet someone and feel as if you have known them for a long time?" says Piano. "We had that sort of affinity from the beginning.

"He's the hardest man in the world" says Pat Crerand, who has the sort of affinity that any other Catholic wing-half from the west of Scotland might be expected to have.

It is at any rate not hard to see why Eliot, with his own lifelong fascinations for epic form, comparative mythology and mystical revelation, found some sort of affinity with the rhapsodising surveyor from New Amsterdam.

"He said he felt that if he was out somewhere and met another Smith, he immediately felt some sort of affinity," says Kay. "He thought, 'Right you are, I'll have your back, you'll have my back, we're both Smiths.'" One of Kay's interviewees does not live in Salford but is a friend.

Social discovery apps spend much of their time focused on this problem: how to infuse apparently "random" online interactions with the sort of affinity that leads to connection not unlike a good mutual friend who enjoys playing matchmaker.

By then, and without any knowledge of the laws of reproduction, it had also become common knowledge that humans, languages, nations, and the whole of the physical world shared some sort of affinity (Ragan 2009): a historical relationship, based upon natural kinship and thus common descent.

"If you get close to someone who is also carrying one, and who's programmed it with the same sort of affinities," he said, "both Tamagotchis will beep".

The Putin-Saakashvili relationship also cannot be divorced from their nations' shared history, which over hundreds of years has given rise to all sorts of affinities and complexes.

One can see all sorts of affinities in her work to a younger generation of British artists, including Heather Phillipson, Helen Marten and Ed Atkins, as well as to figures such as Kurt Schwitters and Pipilotti Rist.

"As well as being an absolutely first rate lawyer, you need a sort of cultural affinity.

Do I ever feel the sort of emotional affinity for him I might feel for a grief-demented father in a movie or a book?