Sentences with phrase «feel affinity for»

As photography was my medium, I naturally feel an affinity for it.

Cats like being around those they feel an affinity for.

The intro track «Healin» My Blues», captures my attention as a I feel an affinity for The Dave Mathews Band vibe mixed with a blues jam who's mentality screams like a 70's funk track.

A Quiet Passion: It's understandable if Terence Davies feels an affinity for Emily Dickinson, since they're both masterful artists destined never to be appreciated in their lifetimes.

I felt an affinity for that kind of investment; recalling my own obsession with records, and subsequently with literature, helped me understand his attraction to machines.

Though she grew up in Philadelphia, Boynton felt an affinity for country music since her childhood days of watching cowboy shows on TV and listening to rockabilly stars like Buddy Holly.

As a mathematically minded fellow, I felt an affinity for the theory.

When I arrived in the village of Neive, I instantly felt an affinity for it, and wasn't surprised to learn it has been included on a list of the most beautiful villages in Italy.

And although he is not directly inspired by Bernini or other canonical Baroque figures, Beasley feels an affinity for their exuberant, twisted forms and figures.

If an interviewer feels an affinity for you as a person, he or she may feel positive about hiring you as an employee.

In his career, Jeff has always felt an affinity for couples counseling and started that specialization during his internship training.

Not exact matches

At one point, Sculley seems to suggest that Jobs's being adopted made him feel rejected, creating almost an affinity for being disliked.

In his book Gods Behaving Badly (SCM), theologian and sociologist Pete Ward offers an explanation for why we feel such a close affinity to certain famous people.

Second, and more important, Indifferents will not likely feel much affinity for believers who do have religious objections to government policy.

Regarding his intellectual affinities, Hartshorne feels himself to be «closest» to Charles Sanders Peirce, Henri Bergson, and A. N. Whitehead.4 He expresses gratitude to his Harvard professors C. I. Lewis and H. M. Sheffer for introducing him to «logical exactitude,» and especially to Professor William Ernest Hocking, his first teacher in philosophical theology, for fresh insights into a philosophically trustworthy vision of God.5 Furthermore, he acknowledges some indebtedness to Josiah Royce, William James, and Ralph Barton Perry, as well as a close kinship to the Russian existentialist Nicolai Berdyaev.6 Nevertheless, Hartshome's philosophy is strikingly similar and most profoundly indebted to that of A. N. Whitehead.

Niebuhr's affinities with Edwards are clear in the final lecture, «Toward the Recovery of Feeling,» which points to the importance of religious emotions for apprehending God.

But oh my gosh, I have such an affinity for gingerbread and cinnamon rolls and have never been able to make ones that I «feel good» about eating.

Crowder in particular «felt a strong affinity for student - athletes» and readily granted them access to the classes to help them manage their academic and athletic demands.

He recalled how his father used a «pine rolltop desk from a vocational high school in Buffalo» at the executive mansion in Albany, how Mario felt a «natural affinity» for Buffalo and its people, a devotion forged by a shared perspective that began in Mario's Great Depression childhood.

[80] Turning his attention once more to Parliament, Livingstone attempted to get selected as the Labour candidate for the constituency of Brent East, a place which he felt an «affinity» for and where several friends lived.

Wheeler seriously considered medical school, but during her undergraduate days she developed an affinity for electronic engineering, which she felt she would have to give up if she became a physician.

You know when you have a real affinity for a place, a gut feeling you just «know it»?

As an Asian American that grew up in New York I feel that communities based on race or ethnicity have incredibe affinities and are be perfect for online community services.

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If that is the criterion for being a mutant, it isn't hard to see why teens — or for that matter, adults — would feel a certain affinity with the X-Men.

Efron, who reportedly exercised himself down to 5 % body fat, plays up the «swimming Bad Boy» character for laughs, though as the film progresses you do begin to feel a little affinity for him.

But other moments feel as if Demme's affinity for shagginess and musicality — utilized better in «Rachel Getting Married» and all his»80s films — is filling in the gaps.

Sure, cataloging the film's copious references and antecedents will make critics feel smart — but does that just make First Reformed fan service for those who share Schrader's obvious affinity for Bresson, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Ingmar Bergman?

Even in Beau Travail, the affinity the other Legionnaires feel for Colin's character derives from his humor.

Paul Greengrass felt like a solid choice given that Captain Phillips appeared to be well - liked by everyone, and I thought the Academy might repeat their affinity for more offbeat material by nominating Spike Jonze for Her, but instead Alexander Payne picked up his third nomination and Martin Scorsese, despite certain «controversies» surrounding Wolf of Wall Street, landed his eighth Best Director nod.]

She told Eisenberg about the new affinity she feels for tech tools like Siri and Alexa, and how it can ruin her social life.

So their special affinity doesn't seem to matter as much as the quality of their material and their particular feeling for it.

I agree with ylhoff that prejudice is in our DNA to the extent that the evidence suggests that humans have lived in tribal groups for a very long time, and I think most would agree that in order to function in a pack you have to feel an affinity to the group - and, thus, by extension, a distrust of outsiders.

I feel a particular affinity for 3) Querying agents is a good way to get feedback.

Perhaps I just have an affinity for white phones as I feel white just looks sleeker and more streamlined.

Emily feels a strange affinity with the girl and launches a desperate search for her.

Monks is appalled by Freeboot's violent histrionics and Manson - like affinity for the hidden messages buried within Lennon and McCartney lyrics, yet acknowledges that he hears echoes of his own feelings when Freeboot speaks about the disintegration of workers» rights, the escalating differential between the haves and the have - nots, and the slap - on - the - wrist «justice» doled out in cases of billion - dollar corporate malfeasance.

In some strange way, I felt there was an affinity between the two writers, for there is a spiritual bravery at work in these poems.

What explains the affinity this ex-Soviet, American, Jewish immigrant in his 30s feels for this gay, older Englishwoman who makes her life in the countryside?

Somehow, it has become all but impossible for us to declare an affinity for anything without feeling that we must back the car over all disagreement.

«People feel a real affinity for wildlife and having new information and captivating photos to share has given us an exciting new way to demonstrate why these places are so important.»

With each companies weapons looking and feeling completely different you'll soon find yourself with an affinity for a particular brand of gun, creating almost a loyalty of sorts.

You'll have to know a vague idea of each character's «role» in a group (which is fairly obvious once you're at the 50 + hour time mark), you probably need to know how to level artes (which the game does a very nice job of explaining), and knowing how to gem (even only on a very basic level) would probably be helpful, but you by no means have to go into the world of affinity coins to complete the main story assuming you are a player of average skill and ability level, nor do you have to feel the innate need to update your character's equipment every 5 minutes (unless if you're preparing for a boss encounter).

I say this as a person that has an affinity for Japanese games and media — something constantly feels off about the interactions and makes me cringe in the same way Time and Eternity once did.

So although American viewers will reflexively relate the streaming brushstrokes in her paintings to New York School painting, or to the work of an American closer to her in age, such as David Reed, she may feel just as much affinity for European practitioners of improvisational painting such as Pierre Soulages, Howard Hodgkin or even Gerhard Richter.

Painting in the genre of Abstract Expressionism, I feel a strong affinity for artists such as Joan Mitchell and Willem De Kooning, whose work also emphasizes action and emotion over ideas.

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