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Example sentences for: affection

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It was only a decade ago that Stephen McCauley published his first novel, The Object of My Affection , and startled his readers by having his gay protagonist, George, move in with a flaky Brooklyn social worker, Nina, and agree to be a father to her unborn child.
The afflicted children--about 20 percent of the 18,000 adopted--are incapable of forming emotional bonds with their new parents, probably because the absence of attention and affection in infancy stunted brain development.
Those who simply harbor an abiding affection for the language and like having fun with it will want to acquire the book for delectable browsing.
Sacks' informed curiosity about the causes of the disease (which might hold a clue to the unsolved mysteries surrounding its Western relatives) is hardly separable from his affection for the plant.
I might also state from the outset that I take this tack with a certain rooting interest, since my affection for libertarian thought (at least of the limited-government variety) long antedates my concern with cyberspace.