affair of the heart
Example Sentences
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Questioned by Tunisian police at the airport, he said his trip to Turkey had been to follow a Turkish woman – an affair of the heart that had led nowhere.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2014
As she careered into her Golden Girls years, she mocked the Grim Reaper by saying that “age-appropriate” clothing “would be a shroud” and that, “At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.”
From Time • Sep. 4, 2014
Firstly, he is passionate in defence of the single currency which he described as an "affair of the heart".
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2014
Beethoven began composing his vivacious Eighth Symphony in the summer of 1812, when he was enduring a painful affair of the heart with the woman he called “Immortal Beloved.”
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2011
It's an affair of the heart, not of the head.
From Nancy Stair A Novel by Lane, Elinor Macartney
