But he has also explored traditional jazz materials – particularly Charlie Parker's and Thelonious Monk's – with affection, empathy, vision and his own kind of eloquent lyricism.
Judaism understands love to be covenantal -- the dynamic and persistent integration of the inner emotion/virtues of affection, empathy, desire, yearning and delight with deeds of tzedek (justice), shalom (wholeness/integrity) and berakhah (blessing/wellbeing).
This questionnaire evaluates confidential SS (possibility of having people to communicate with) with a minimum score of 7 points (low confidential SS) and a maximum score of 35 points (high confidential SS); and affective SS (demonstration of love, affection, and empathy) with a minimum score of 4 (low affective SS) and a maximum score of 20 points (high affective SS).
Mitchell's best defense is that he wrote what he did out of affection and empathy for his subjects, not a wish to deceive.
And indeed, despite technical crudeness, Van Gogh's early drawings show a deep affection and empathy for the difficult and dark industrial landscape and its poverty-stricken residents.
Quitting smoking and drinking has taught me the hardest lesson I've ever learned about my own weakness; it has also given me the greatest affection and empathy for those still addicted.
Hitchcock, meanwhile, was fastidious, urbane yet detached and, as Herrmann once described him, "essentially a puritan", but the pair nevertheless developed an affection and empathy rarely equalled in either of their lives, often spending weekends together at each other's homes with their wives.
They range from simple empathy, affection and a catch-all category called "understanding," to complex actions like sacrificing your career so your family can move to a city where a spouse or partner has a new and better job.
Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe said, 'The more I know, the fewer cups I have to break.' And that's more to the point: the biographer who permits himself to know as much as can be known is more apt to write with precision, empathy, affection and true understanding".
The PWBS is based on a multidimensional model of psychological well-being; the dimensions are as follows: (a) Positive relations with others, characterised by warming, satisfying, trusting and satisfactory relationships, concern for others' well-being, empathy, affection, intimacy and understanding of relationships.
