Sentence examples for universal affection from inspiring English sources

Narayan is one of those novelists who commands universal affection.

"Stanley Matthews in his day conjured a universal affection and admiration," Green wrote in his autobiography.

When Hussain in the Membrane begins in earnest – with a bit about white people's universal affection for dogs – the culture shock is taken down a notch.

I worked nearby, and often saw many people recognize him as he walked down Broadway, but he was held in such universal affection that nobody bothered him.

In addition, he received that rarest of tributes, the universal affection of his fellow professionals, something never quite received by his coeval and polar opposite, the other great stage actor of the past century: Laurence Olivier.

But in recent decades, as Parkinson's disease began to overwhelm his gifts for movement and speech, and as the country's attitudes changed, Ali became a focus of almost universal affection.

I can't work out if she is deliberately and skilfully taking care to say nothing that could jeopardise the universal public affection that has sustained her career for half a century.

An obvious problem with pit bulls is that their very name does not exactly inspire universal confidence or affection.

"She was one of the U.K.'s leading scientists--and none was held in more universal respect and affection".

After her husband's accession, Louise developed many ties to senior ministers and became a powerful figure within the government as she began to command universal respect and affection.

Winking is a universal sign of affection.