Sentence examples for warped affection from inspiring English sources

A few years ago, on Opening Day, when the Expos' plump and gloomy mascot came fluttering down to the field in a parachute, one of the French-language commentators called out, "It's Richler!" There was genuine, warped affection in it.

At least it keeps them off the streetwalkers, who might otherwise have to bear the brunt of their impotent fury, but it can get a bit samey for the rest of us, even those of us who have developed a real sense of warped affection for our trolls.

The other half of the "we" is director Noah Baumbach, who cast Gerwig as the object of Ben Stiller's warped affection in Greenberg, and a few months later, when Baumbach left the mother of his child, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, he got together with Gerwig both romantically and artistically.

Brazilian novelist Raphael Montes has attracted high-profile plaudits (Sophie Hannah, Jeffery Deaver) for Perfect Days (Harvill Secker, £15.99), a black comedy-cum-road thriller in which deranged medical student Teo stalks and then kidnaps the object of his warped affection, Clarice, in a bid to make her love him (previously, he has only had feelings for his dissection-class corpse).

Maia Thorne, a therapeutic counsellor working with Mary, says: "Because her boundaries have been eroded by adults she's got a warped sense of affection because that's the kind of attention she's received".

Because her boundaries have been eroded by adults she's got a warped sense of affection because that's the kind of attention she's received Maia Thorne, a therapeutic counsellor working with Mary Mel Turpin, a clinical psychologist on the project, says: "One of the biggest challenges is people either see a child as an abuse victim or they see them as someone who's harmful and demonise them.

Newly installed floors warped, were reinstalled and warped again.

Alesha would be "unlikely to be able to avoid the legacy of her upbringing," while it was impossible to tell whether their son Junyad, who continued to back them, was either doing so out of "filial affection or the result of the warped values you instilled in him," he said.

Each character has a warped ideal of love and goes his or her own way to acquire that affection.

Warped thinking indeed.

A warped credit card.