affectingly

Example Sentences

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Ms. Hruska writes affectingly of the Polish-Jewish author Bruno Schulz, who translated “The Trial” in 1936.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

You may be surprised how affectingly, and empoweringly, the film uses the then-ubiquitous TikToks of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

So much so that when a character in Ritchie’s new war film set in the country, the affectingly emotional “The Covenant,” mentions an IED, the words “improvised explosive device” helpfully pop up on screen.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

Narratively cagey as it may seem, “The Girl and the Spider” clearly, and affectingly, muses on farewells, change and our enduring or fleeting bonds to people and the places where we loved them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

Her whole presence came so familiarly and affectingly before him, that it seemed to him as if the mother whom he had lost in his youth was now in this terrible situation.

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm