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单词 affecting
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Definition of affecting in English:

affecting

adjective əˈfɛktɪŋəˈfɛktɪŋ
  • Touching the emotions; moving.

    a highly affecting account of her experiences in prison
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The two deliver strong, affecting performances.
    • The most affecting scenes in the novel are those depicting the decimation wrought by this plague-like contagion.
    • Both novels are perfectly enjoyable, if somewhat flawed in places, and both novelists show sufficient talent and invention to produce further, hopefully more polished and affecting works.
    • But the most affecting interviews are with Youssef, a nine-year-old Egyptian American born and raised in New York City.
    • This is a lovingly told story of redemption and familial love, but recounted at such close range that every success or failure in this family becomes acutely affecting.
    • The few truly affecting moments are overwhelmed by the embarrassing cheese.
    • A recent episode elevated this superior soap opera into deeply affecting drama.
    • Never was a more beautiful effusion of grief interrupted by a more affecting incident
    • With Nobody's Fool he weaves a magic spell with the help of a funny, affecting screenplay and a top notch supporting cast.
    • His art at its most affecting projects a harrowing instability.
    • Still, you'd be hard-pressed to find a fresher, more affecting show in the city this summer.
    • Here are two real and affecting characters for whose reunion, at the ballet's climax, the choreographer made one of his most poetic pas de deux.
    • Like her male counterpart, she always seems to have an affecting awareness of her sidekick status.
    • With his quiet but affecting meditations on what constitutes the self, Sakuma makes us aware of our relation to others and of our existence and its inevitable end.
    • But in general, this is a strong, thought-provoking piece of writing and an impressive, affecting performance.
    • Venus Williams's straight-set victory over sister Serena in the Wimbledon women's semi-finals was the most affecting sports contest in recent memory.
    • In this handsome new collection, the band shows it is justly proud of one of the least affected, most affecting voices around.
    • The whole volume constitutes an effort to resolve a problem that must confront anyone who finds the world a deeply affecting yet intangible chimera.
    • There is an affecting description here of a meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru.
    • There are some affecting moments at the start of the story.

Derivatives

  • affectingly

  • adverb əˈfɛktɪŋliəˈfɛktɪŋli
    • It was affectingly acted, beautifully designed, and, for lack of a better word, crunchy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a quiet story, affectingly intimate, dealing as it does with family, pride, roots and humility.
      • At her best, she's affectingly funny; at her worst, she's alienatingly self-conscious.
      • They now have a most unusual friendship and she speaks affectingly of his story as a peculiarly American tragedy.
      • Though the scenario is murky, several of the main characters are affectingly portrayed.
      • And so I complete what I affectingly refer to as my ‘pop trilogy’ reviews.

Definition of affecting in US English:

affecting

adjectiveəˈfɛktɪŋəˈfektiNG
  • Touching the emotions; moving.

    a highly affecting account of her experiences in prison
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Venus Williams's straight-set victory over sister Serena in the Wimbledon women's semi-finals was the most affecting sports contest in recent memory.
    • There are some affecting moments at the start of the story.
    • There is an affecting description here of a meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru.
    • But in general, this is a strong, thought-provoking piece of writing and an impressive, affecting performance.
    • In this handsome new collection, the band shows it is justly proud of one of the least affected, most affecting voices around.
    • Never was a more beautiful effusion of grief interrupted by a more affecting incident
    • Here are two real and affecting characters for whose reunion, at the ballet's climax, the choreographer made one of his most poetic pas de deux.
    • The two deliver strong, affecting performances.
    • Both novels are perfectly enjoyable, if somewhat flawed in places, and both novelists show sufficient talent and invention to produce further, hopefully more polished and affecting works.
    • Like her male counterpart, she always seems to have an affecting awareness of her sidekick status.
    • The most affecting scenes in the novel are those depicting the decimation wrought by this plague-like contagion.
    • The whole volume constitutes an effort to resolve a problem that must confront anyone who finds the world a deeply affecting yet intangible chimera.
    • This is a lovingly told story of redemption and familial love, but recounted at such close range that every success or failure in this family becomes acutely affecting.
    • But the most affecting interviews are with Youssef, a nine-year-old Egyptian American born and raised in New York City.
    • With his quiet but affecting meditations on what constitutes the self, Sakuma makes us aware of our relation to others and of our existence and its inevitable end.
    • A recent episode elevated this superior soap opera into deeply affecting drama.
    • The few truly affecting moments are overwhelmed by the embarrassing cheese.
    • His art at its most affecting projects a harrowing instability.
    • With Nobody's Fool he weaves a magic spell with the help of a funny, affecting screenplay and a top notch supporting cast.
    • Still, you'd be hard-pressed to find a fresher, more affecting show in the city this summer.
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