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Affection in sentence

592 examples of Affection in a sentence

I was overwhelmed with love and affection for my wife, with deep, deep gratitude that we had what appeared to be a healthy child.
But what I felt towards the child at that moment was deep affection, but nothing like what I feel for him now, five years later.
First of all, please remember I'm completely politically correct, and I mean everything with great affection.
You have a relatively economically efficient solution, but one that actually meets with public approval and even a small degree of affection, rather than being seen as bastardy.
And we see here, "I would just feel so much better if I could curl up in his arms right now and feel his affection for me in the embrace of his body and the tenderness of his lips."
And I believe that in the same way that we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.
Voice 4: All the outpouring of affection and emotion that came from our country was something really that will forever, ever stay with me.
In my culture, this is a symbol of deep affection.
We've made a fascinating discovery: there's nothing wrong with the kids that affection and sunshine and food and enthusiasm and Herbie's music can't cure.
These were children who the whole world had given up on, who were flunking out of public school, and that's what they're capable of doing with affection and sunlight and food and good music and confidence.
As my favorite author, Jane Austen, puts it, "An unmarried woman of seven and twenty can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."
We recognize affection.
Two people satisfying each other 50 percent should be a better match than two others who satisfy 0 and 100, because affection needs to be mutual.
Love is also a set of behaviors we associate with the feeling: Holding hands, kissing, hugging, public displays of affection, dating, marriage, having kids, or just sex.
High-conflict marriages, for example, without much affection, turn out to be very bad for our health, perhaps worse than getting divorced.
This version of love is not about winning or losing someone's affection.
And information on how they could support themselves and their children, such as information like spending time talking to your child, showing them more affection, being more patient with your child, talking to your children.
I am dust in your wind and although I bleed through your wound, and every beloved stone has my deepest affection, there is not a stone in the world worth more than a human life.
Being full of affection for one's goofy, self-centered, cranky, annoying self is home.
It's a form of affection and love that is now no longer extant, yeah?
And then on top of that you have a steady stream of visitors and volunteers coming in, showering you in the love and affection you're craving and then leaving again, evoking all of those feelings of abandonment, and proving again and again that you are not worthy of being loved.
The anthropologist Donald Brown has tried to list them all, and they range from aesthetics, affection and age statuses all the way down to weaning, weapons, weather, attempts to control, the color white and a worldview.
There's an intensity of affection and emotion, a rush.
And scientists are very interested in their behavior, because in their social networks, they share habits, information and even affection.
Children with poor nutrition but a lot of affection have better outcomes than children with good nutrition and poor affection.
He told me how, growing up, public displays of affection were looked down on.
So babies have to attract our affection and our nurturing, and they do.
In those days, one hid much else as well: grown men didn't embrace one another, unless someone had died, and not always then; you shook hands or, at a ball game, thumped your friend's back and exchanged blows meant to be codes for affection; once out of childhood you'd never again know the shock of your father's whiskers on your cheek, not until mores at last had evolved, and you could hug another man, then hold on for a moment, then even kiss (your fathers bristles white and stiff now).
And I say this out of affection for them: there's something curious about professors.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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