affinities

SR: Actually, the influences on my writing and thinking come from a totally different place, although there are certain affinities — a sense of the power of the irrational, these atavistic drives pulsing inside culture.

Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2 2009

Worth noting is that, while there are two fossil hoatzins, neither of them preserve enough information to tell us anything useful about hoatzin affinities, or about the way of life of the fossil forms.

Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

Worth noting is that, while there are two fossil hoatzins, neither of them preserve enough information to tell us anything useful about hoatzin affinities, or about the way of life of the fossil forms.

Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006

South American Miocene Charactosuchus, while gharial-like, has been regarded as a highly unusual crocodylid of uncertain affinities (Langston 1965, Langston & Gasparini 1997), while Euthecodon – a uniquely African taxon, some species of which approached 10 m in length – is also a crocodylid, and perhaps a close relative of the living dwarf crocodiles (and we’ll discuss those more in a moment).

Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006

South American Miocene Charactosuchus, while gharial-like, has been regarded as a highly unusual crocodylid of uncertain affinities (Langston 1965, Langston & Gasparini 1997), while Euthecodon – a uniquely African taxon, some species of which approached 10 m in length – is also a crocodylid, and perhaps a close relative of the living dwarf crocodiles (and we’ll discuss those more in a moment).

Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

How can one be a reader and not develop certain affinities.

Which would YOU rather have? Roger Sutton 2008

In return for this patronage, magnates expected their clients, tenants, and neighbors — their "affinities" — to support them with men, arms, and money when the magnate needed military resources.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

-- RUSS There was a box for "affinities," words that would draw a searcher, or surfer, to the site.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

And what kind of affinities do spiraling coincidences imply?

Out of Novemberland Andr&233; Aciman 1998

Those babble of "affinities" who know little, and care less, about the long and arduous ascent up which mankind has toiled, in the effort to attain to civilization.

A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton