I never called him by his first name, careful not to cross the delicate mentor-protege line between affection and familiarity.

I touched her, a pat between affection and compassion.

The problem for Miss Pierson's neighbors was that the line between familial affection and sexual abuse is not always clear.

She stared at him with an expression caught between affection and frustration.

The tension between real-world affection and poker imperatives gives the play - yes, both sorts - its edge.

Thalia had spent the day vacillating between icy anger and hot affection.

It must have been then that I began to distinguish between affection and appetite.

The movie's view of this disturbed young author finds just the right balance between affection and pity, admiration and criticism.

She just wished he could see the difference between affection and lust, for she had a powerful need to be hugged.

But these American products shape images, not sympathies, and there is little, if any, relationship between artifact and affection.