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Affinities are not attributions of “beauty or quality or taste” or any other “eternal aesthetic values”; they cannot be translated into the familiar “language of influence, subject matter, research.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

Still, as his Instagram and Tumblr feeds prove — he calls them both Archive of Affinities — there are few more enthusiastic champions of 1970s American architecture like the Bonaventure than Kovacs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2018

Affinities with Pa could go way beyond a shared reverence for nature’s brilliant economy.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2017

Affinities aside, the offer of the role caught Mr. Miles by surprise.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2015

Any just appreciation of Goethe's art in The Elective Affinities must begin by recognizing that it is about Ottilie.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno