How to Use matters/affairs of the heart in a Sentence

matters/affairs of the heart

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  • For María, matters of the heart are less open and simple.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2022
  • My view was, this was no one's business in the end — at least in matters of the heart.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • One, from the 18th century, takes a rather dour view of matters of the heart.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Here Didion once again takes dead aim at matters of the heart.
    Nr Staff, National Review, 23 Dec. 2021
  • For 10 long years, affairs of state took precedence over affairs of the heart.
    CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Swift was a moralist in matters of the heart, and once someone broke her trust all bets were off.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Despite the pall, Ukrainians have found ways to preserve affairs of the heart amid the clatter of war.
    Jeff Stein, Samantha Schmidt and Kostiantyn Khudov, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In the matter of catfish, as in matters of the heart, the questions are as important as the answers.
    al, 27 Dec. 2022
  • If there was physical danger, sure, but this is affairs of the heart.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • Was that difficult being so open about matters of the heart?
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
  • As with most matters of the heart, the answer is complicated.
    Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But matters of the heart take a backseat as a raging wildfire bears down on the town and its residents.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • They’re being tugged, like all of us, between matters of the heart and the bureaucratic maze.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • However, matters of the heart are never too far from the surface.
    Mike Wass, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Love and hip-hop are such a perfect match because the genre emphasizes lyricism in its descriptions of affairs of the heart.
    Janae McKenzie, Glamour, 12 June 2022
  • Tools and hardware become symbols for the things that are pragmatic and logical, as opposed to the matters of the heart that don’t answer to reason.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Here's what two astrologers had to say about how much the stars can be trusted in matters of the heart — and, whether pop-astrology is taking a nuanced enough approach.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In conversation, Song comes across as an openhearted philosopher, happy to talk matters of the heart and the mind and grateful to have come out of the filmmaking gate with such a surge.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • His film—which begins the day after Thanksgiving with a wife finding a love note written by her husband for someone else—is a comedic odyssey through affairs of the heart.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Well, a younger sister, who is a bit more of a free spirit but still sad, reeling from a broken engagement, a dalliance while married and other affairs of the heart.
    Jon Bream Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Still, Zihan’s training in matters of the heart as well as matter of the blade runs counter to Zijie’s natural instincts toward honesty.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 10 July 2024
  • Both of these now-graying troubadours struck a resounding chord, whether contemplating intimate matters of the heart, life at large, or the beleaguered state of the world around them.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The two travel together, investigating matters of the heart and parsing the sacred from the profane.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • When regarding matters of the heart, you're drawn to intellectual rapport and witty banter during the first half of June.
    Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
  • The circumstances of the crime, specifically the secrets of the man who ostensibly committed it, bleed into matters of the heart, and of memory.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2021
  • Kempf’s and Balla’s lyrics approach matters of the heart and soul with an unvarnished sincerity that’s sweet, silly, and just serious enough.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
  • But much like our girl Devi, Kitty soon finds herself in a couple tough situations regarding matters of the heart.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 June 2023
  • Actors Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones play the respective women who must each face matters of the heart after the love letters are found.
    Cady Lang, Time, 23 July 2021
  • Unfortunately, not every kid has a parent who is able to communicate on matters of the heart.
    Sarah Bregel, Parents, 7 June 2024
  • Why leave affairs of the heart to anything as notoriously unreliable as primal emotion?
    Bob Brody, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2024

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