After the first effusion of filial affection she complained of the situation to which she was reduced.
The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, and I gave way to tumultuous emotion.
Saddam does not feel the same filial affection for Nasser as, for example, Gadaffi.
I'm not very practiced at feeling filial affection.
The filial "affection" of the brothers as well as their upbringing is remarked on by several ancient sources.
The guard thought it a touching display of filial affection and withdrew.
Did you expect me to fall on your neck in some touching display of filial affection?
Israel read the letter without a throb of filial affection; but, nevertheless, he concluded to obey its summons.
Her father sought to know her as a daughter, and hoped to inspire a filial affection.
It does not make for deep, filial affection, does it?