Sentence examples for strange affection from inspiring English sources

But I still feel a strange affection for it, and this quote probably explains why.

It's the same with what seem to be "clues" that dead-end: Jacob's strange affection for the golem or his intention to convene a Zionist discussion group at the local pub.

Nine months on, as he prepares to go before a US congressional committee to account for Toyota's handling of the safety recall of more than 8.5m cars, the 53-year-old chief executive must look back with strange affection on the days when his only concern was the bottom line.

Absent, too, is the strange affection that underwrote John Hodge's script for Trainspotting, making Filth and its core characters hard to like, despite the sturdiest of supporting casts (Eddie Marsan's bottle-eyed cardi-man and Shirley Henderson's desperate housewife are particular fine) and an admirable fidelity to the spirit of the novel.

I've never been to Rhode Island, but browsing through this set of pictures he just sent us, I can't help but feel a strange affection for this place I've heard so much about on TV and imagined wasting time in while listening to bands like Real Estate and The Replacements.

Still, it manages to show flashes of genuine emotion – a brief kiss that meant nothing to Karma, but meant everything to Amy; how tactile behaviour between friends must now be redefined; whether there is a need for labels if it is just one person on the receiving end of this strange new affection.

It is strange to accept affection when you are unable to get out of bed".

The 1815 edition of Lyrical Ballads organised the poems into the Poems Founded on the Affections ("Strange fits", "She dwelt", and "I travelled") and Poems of the Imagination ("Three years she grew" and "A slumber").

"It's so strange they developed this affection for him".

It felt like a mallet striking the skin of a bass drum, a strange way of showing affection, and I kept my eyes closed through the operation.

"I find it strange to feel so much affection for a man I don't really know".