From an early age he showed talent, painting large oils that demonstrated both technical brilliance and a close affinity with the natural world.

Since interdiscourse privileges certain interpretations, it has a close affinity to the concepts of ideology, hegemony and power (sociology).

Heavy guitars supplemented by more bombastic arrangements for classical instruments have come to dominate the music, showing a close affinity to symphonic metal.

Preparations of this kind have a close affinity to cloth waterproofed with rubber, and to such manufactures as ordinary waxcloth.

Due to its close affinity to some species of gazelles, the kob and reedbucks, taxonomists had placed the impala in the same tribe as these alcelaphines.