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
• Some of the more affecting moments take place in this formative stage.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
• Each emotional beat arrives with soft footsteps, and is all the more affecting for it.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• Each emotional beat arrives with soft footsteps, and is all the more affecting for it.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
• Each emotional beat arrives with soft footsteps, and is all the more affecting for it.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
• Each emotional beat arrives with soft footsteps, and is all the more affecting for it.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Apr. 2026
• The pieces that lean into the personal are the most affecting, the most memorable.
  — Kimberly Harrington, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
• Through binoculars or a telescope, the view of the eclipsed moon becomes something much more affecting.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026
• Of all the cameos in Free Guy, Alex Trebek's is the most affecting.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2021
• The night’s most affecting moment came courtesy of an unlikely duet partner.
  — Janine Schaults, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
• The most affecting moment came toward the end of the conversation.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Sometimes the most unlikely romances can surprise us as the most affecting and tender.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• One of the most affecting displays is a wall lined with hundreds of jars of soil excavated from sites of lynchings across the country.
  — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
• For Audain, the most affecting stories are those that end with drownings in the Rio Grande.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• 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
• 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 most affecting quality of his rebirth is the determined restoration of his sense of goodness.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• The film is sweet and affecting, but never treacly or overly sentimental.
  — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2025
• And yet, Lestat is so palpably alive, which makes the vocal hardening all the more affecting.
  — Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026
• Some of the most affecting works extract remarkable graphic and emotional potential from just one or two words.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
• Yet, the hater was at his most affecting when confronted with obsessive love, a feeling that commingles warmth with disdain.
  — Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
• But despite the strange form, obscure translations, and magical thinking of this book, few coming of age tales are more affecting.
  — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2019
• Fans and critics alike seem to agree that the result is jarringly intimate and extremely affecting.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
• In one of the finale’s most affecting scenes, John uses The Babysitter’s Club to teach her how to read.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
• 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
• But the most affecting moment – both in song and on the album – comes at the end, with Bono singing a capella, his voice catching on the final lines as the song ends cold.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2026
• The messiest moments in Better Things are also the most affecting and finely observed.
  — Chloé Cooper Jones, GQ, 14 Sep. 2017