Sentence examples for with the affection of a from inspiring English sources

Guerra told me that she regards Padura with the affection of a younger sister and that she regularly seeks his and Lucía's advice, but that she isn't published in Cuba.

"The headwaiter stands, with a certain pensive arrogance, behind a laid table in the Garrick Club; a milkman calls on an old lady who is just managing to keep up appearances in the near-squalor of her Battersea rooms; in the Red Lion public house, Duke of York Street, a bowler-hatted businessman eyes his tankard of bitter with the affection of a very, very long acquaintance".

With backing from Cohen and musicians including Van Dyke Parks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, bassist Roscoe Beck and others, Warnes brought to life Cohen's songs with the affection of a portraitist painting a paramour. .

Biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn disagreed with this view, citing a fervent love letter to argue that Poe "loved his little cousin not only with the affection of a brother, but also with the passionate devotion of a lover and prospective husband".

Yet its sinewy viscosity flowed with the affection of an old friend.

Again kisses, with all the affection of a farewell that refuses to be total.

He kidnaps the beautiful Bela, daughter of a Circassian tribesman, becomes involved with smugglers, and schemes to win the affection of a Muscovite princess while embarking on an affair with his former lover Vera.

License denied to a man charged with trifling with the affections of a female.

Early on, Abe meets, and is showered with the affections of, an attractive student (Emma Stone).

In the movie, Mr. Hawke played a philosophical slacker vying with a slick yuppie (Ben Stiller) for the affection of an aspiring filmmaker played by Winona Ryder.

"They still speak of each other with the affection of playground buddies who invented a private language".