Sentence examples for affectionate description from inspiring English sources

He was not deterred by the fact that many of them, like the 6ft 5in Stan Kenton, towered over his unprepossessing and later portly 5ft 4in: "The little man on top of the wedding cake" was the tenor saxophonist Bill Perkins's affectionate description.

His essay is usually remembered for its affectionate descriptions of "Britishness" or, as Orwell insisted, "Englishness": "...the rattle of pin-tables in the Soho pubs, the old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings".

There are affecting and affectionate descriptions of life in Pricklebush, the shanty town where all the aboriginals live, the procession across Australia of the travelling evangelical, Mozzie Fishman, and the zany behaviour of the family's matriarch, Angel Day.The influence of Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican novelist and essayist and one of Ms Wright's favourite writers, is never far away.

For all the affectionate descriptions of Harold Arlen by colleagues and friends as a frequently passive, always gracious, ever-deferring soul, there was also the Arlen who played this new melody for George Gershwin shortly after writing it in 1934; even before "Last Night When We Were Young" had a lyric.

The affectionate but critical description of Isaiah Berlin, a friend and colleague who both inspired and disappointed him, is particularly gripping.Most of the book is about Mr Pipes's post-war life in America, loved austerely but gratefully.

That description is affectionate and blunt, insightful and superficial, typical for Donovan, who loved to play up the dichotomies of her own character.

Ms. Melucci, who has had a long career in book and magazine publishing, studded her memoir with recipes, affectionate portraits of family and friends and descriptions of bad boyfriends that would induce acid reflux in the sturdiest of digestions.

Swift's letters contain his comments on eminent people as well as reflective, often humorous descriptions of occurrences and personalities and warm, affectionate personal messages.

Bailey concurred with Hassenger's description of it as bittersweet, writing: "It's an affectionate send-off, bittersweet and kind of wonderful and therefore perfectly in tone with this charming little show".

The most poetic, affectionate parts of "Rita Moreno: A Memoir" are the author's descriptions, seen through a haze of childhood romanticism, of "the most sensual place in the world," near the ferns, breadfruit and palms of El Yunque, the Puerto Rican rain forest.

The first part of the YSI asks how applicable various descriptions are to the child (for example generous, affectionate, caring), while the second part asks about things the child does that please the parents (for parent report) or that the child is proud of (for self-report).