Sentence examples for In an affectionate study from inspiring English sources

(In an affectionate study of Fontane, the historian Gordon A. Craig retraced the author's steps).

One of the earliest works is an affectionate study of the artist's mother seated in a chair, seemingly lost in reflection.

But the film is more than an affectionate study of childhood stubbornness; beneath its apparently sentimental surface is a corrosive study of a society closed in upon itself, drained of freedom and cursed to continually relive the past.

His best-known literary efforts include Cards as Weapons (1977) and an affectionate study of "unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers" titled Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (1986).

In this affectionate study, Brooks concedes that the young James "missed the point, completely," but argues that what he observed in Paris deeply affected him, and was especially crucial to his late novels, which, with their shifting, pointillist perspective, "are both in method and in theme about ways of looking at things".

This engrossing, affectionate study of an antiquated skill is both a general history and an introduction to the hobbyists and experts in its contemporary subculture.

"It's done in an affectionate way, and in a truthful way," he says.

Oberst, in a tight white tennis shirt and sagging jeans, was in an affectionate mood.

To be clear: I meant it in an affectionate and admiring way.

They put on dinner jackets and played their gigs seated, in an affectionate parody of a classical orchestra.

Ultimately, what I wanted was a movie that brought my favorite superheroes to life in an affectionate, entertaining way.