"affection" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And a note of wistful affection creeps into Mr. Stillman's voice when he describes the years he is capturing in this film - "that time of life," he said, "when Campbell's cream of mushroom soup is the base for all dishes."
- His old face, full of wistful affection, was very sad.
- She looked at me with a sort of wistful affection, and continued: "But you must know I like to work quite alone, and though it may look churlish, still not even you must come into the studio.
- That sentence affected me deeply, and is still the centerpiece of my wistful affection for a group of people who - despite madness, suicide, infidelities, resentments and betrayals - seemed in some important ways to have their priorities straight.
- Yet in spite of all that had happened, she felt a wistful affection for the Snows.
- And, lastly, there was Gait, himself, whose friendship was not a military matter, but the rather wistful affection of a man who had never had a son, and saw its image in Donal-though it was not really fair to count Gait, who was apart, as still Marshal of Freiland.
- Only when he had seen how useful dragonets were in ground-crewing had he tolerated their wistful affection.
- Now she knew a wistful affection for it, too.
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