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Definition of "affectingly" []

  • In a manner so as to affect. (adverb)

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Use "affectingly" in a sentence
  • "Equally affectingly, as a composer he's scarcely been busier: he's written a new anthem for Liverpool Cathedral (words by Rowan Williams); he and the poet Craig Raine are working on an operatic version of Ian McEwan's Atonement; and his two-act opera with McEwan, For You (2008), a thriller driven by sexual and artistic obsession, will have its European premiere in Rome next month."
  • "This warmly nostalgic Timeshift documentary does just this, however, skilfully and affectingly evoking coach trips on the motorways of the 1950s, as railways declined and before air travel became widely accessible."
  • "The wistful quality that many of these stories seem to be after comes through most affectingly in these two stories because they're understated, don't try as hard as does even the staged epiphany in "Pigeon Feathers.""
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