How to Use affecting in a Sentence

affecting

adjective

• He begins his book with an affecting description of his difficult childhood.
• One of the most affecting pieces in the show drives this point home.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
• This part of the film is the least sumptuous and grandiose — and the most affecting.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
• Of all the cameos in Free Guy, Alex Trebek's is the most affecting.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2021
• The most affecting, stop-you-in-your-tracks, standout works of the show were made a few years later, around 1998.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 29 July 2021
• In the midst of all the flash, the most affecting moment of the night came from the humblest offering, when home-video footage from 2011 was played over the big screens.
  — Madison Desler, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
• But one of the Studio's most affecting works is one of its smallest: a hole drilled into a grain of sand.
  — Mallory Pickett, CNN, 20 June 2017
• For Audain, the most affecting stories are those that end with drownings in the Rio Grande.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• The pieces that lean into the personal are the most affecting, the most memorable.
  — Kimberly Harrington, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
• Her death ranks alongside Peggy Carter’s as the most affecting non-hero passings in the megafranchise so far.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• The trans narrative in If Found feels real and affecting.
  — Geoffrey Bunting, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
• Viewers have family: the story told will be all the more affecting.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
• On June 18, Randy Bryce released one of the most affecting political ads in years.
  — Megan Friedman, Esquire, 22 June 2017
• The most affecting moment came toward the end of the conversation.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
• The most affecting moment by far comes at the very end, when Sally Hemings reads the Declaration in full.
  — Chicago Reader, 10 Aug. 2017
• The most affecting of these pieces cover the experience of other Czech refugees making new lives in New York.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• While Milligan is beguiling—at turns sassy and affecting—that can belie the fact that her path to Broadway has not been an easy one.
  — Max Berlinger, Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2023
• This is an intensely melancholic performance: Julie’s grief at the death of her love seems to come in great unstoppable waves, the most affecting moment of the night.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Tears will inevitably be shed while exploring the collection, but perhaps the most affecting display comes at the end.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2023
• The messiest moments in Better Things are also the most affecting and finely observed.
  — Chloé Cooper Jones, GQ, 14 Sep. 2017
• The most affecting quality of his rebirth is the determined restoration of his sense of goodness.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• This leads to one of the more affecting scenes in the film, when the teacher meets with Donald and Vicaria and suggests, of course, that Vicaria might be happier at a different school.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2023
• Sometimes the most unlikely romances can surprise us as the most affecting and tender.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Barnett becomes Jones’s champion and lawyer, and their quest for Jones’s freedom is the book’s longest story and its most affecting.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• The tragedy of watching him try to extract himself from his Soviet minders, connect with his oblivious son, and try to find his moral core is the most affecting part of the show.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 May 2018
• There’s arguably been no more affecting moment in the series than Katniss showing her love and respect by spreading flowers over the dead girl’s body.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
• But though the fighting is phenomenal and the setting is iconic, one of the most affecting elements of the lightsaber battle isn’t the battle itself but what happens once the lightsabers get switched off.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• The night’s most affecting moment came courtesy of an unlikely duet partner.
  — Janine Schaults, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
• These early sections of the film are the most affecting, capturing how extraordinary Bowie was for his time.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Sep. 2022
• For me, the most affecting work of those years was the exquisite Barry Lyndon, based on but far transcending Thackeray’s novel.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024