Willard is a meek social misfit with a strange affinity for rats.

Although neither understand it, there is a strange affinity between this old man - who has lost his daughter - and the young boy who never knew his mother.

Kim stood in the doorway, looking in, and felt at once a strange affinity with the machines.

'I have always felt a strange affinity for that one.'

He felt a strange affinity with his surroundings.

Abel and Christa show a strange affinity for the hospital's mechanical workings.

It occurred to Gil that it might be linked to Bey's magic; weapons and owners had strange affinities here.

There is a strange affinity between art and winter.

In particular he made a study of natural history, especially of birds, with which he felt a strange affinity.