affinity

"I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters," she wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Nolan isn’t the only director with an affinity for large format film and analog media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

At this point in his public arc, his affinity for the material is more like a colonizing claim.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Mr. O’Connor’s Daniel has a strange affinity with otherworldly contact and a facility for outsmarting the smartest people in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

But in spite of all that, if there was one race the People felt an affinity for it was the Irish.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

But the non-college-educated voters who have traditionally been his bedrock supporters are facing so much financial strain these days that his cultural affinities, even when they’re somewhat authentic, just don’t cut it.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

The book instead is interested in the affinities the translators felt for these elusive texts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Kurds, while mostly Sunni, share cultural and linguistic affinities with Persians and have historically had less friction with the Iranian state than with fellow Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

What joined them together, I think, were kind of dark affinities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

Thus copper sits on top of silver and silver sits on top of gold because of their chemical affinities as metals, while helium, neon, and argon are in a column made up of gases.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson