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Example sentences for: affection

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Wasserstein also brings in a weary, aging critic (Nigel Hawthorne) who can echo Nina's plight, watching the object of his own affection drift into the arms of a younger man and delivering elegant monologues on the subject.
In my time, at least, holding the door communicated respect or affection or some other favorable emotion--depending on the personalities involved.
The Clintons' marriage is "stupefyingly weird" but founded on genuine passion, affection, and respect, argues a piece.
They have found a new object of their affection.
It's called side-step, head-forward, raised-crown, flap-and-glide-flight aggression, though courtship isthe object, affection the compulsion,love the overspill--the body nodding,