Sentence examples for source of affection from inspiring English sources

Stu's family were a vital source of affection and support throughout all the challenges he faced and among the last things he wrote was a picture book entitled What Would You Rather?, dedicated to his beloved nephew and niece.

After his parents were killed when he was young, Orochimaru's only source of affection was received from his teacher, the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, and his two teammates.

Over the years, much of her love was so specifically conditioned on her feelings about how much her children and grandchildren weighed that, as painful as the experience might have been, we learned not to seek her out as a source of affection.

For one, the relationship between rider and horse is unquantifiable and is a great source of affection, support and connection that is hard to describe adequately in words.

Bullies tended to divide their classmates into potential sources of affection and targets for domination.

The only other sources of affection are her curmudgeonly grandfather, a kindred rebellious spirit, and the house cow, whose warm flank she likes to lean against on cold nights.

In "Telegraph Avenue," Michael Chabon's characters join with the giddy excess and unlikely rigor of his prose to mount a sort of meta-argument that we might bridge racial distance using the skills found in our bigger-hearted novelists — imaginative sympathy, attention to the hidden, particular sources of affection and resentment, a loving slowness to judge.

She will be more fully revealed as a courtesan, but is it out of the question that she saw in him a final refuge, security, even a source of constant affection?

From that time on she was a great source of support and affection to my family.

McGwire's achievement, the source of so much affection in the summer of 1998, is now at the root of many mixed feelings.

This clarity may have cost him in the 1972 election, but it was a principal source of the abiding affection that so many Americans — not all of them liberals — feel for George McGovern.