The phrase "affectionate embrace" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of someone being held in a loving way. For example, "When Sarah saw her grandmother after a long absence, they shared an affectionate embrace."
As soon as she left the boat, Grainger was enveloped in a long, affectionate embrace from Sir Steve Redgrave.
Their affectionate embrace is characteristic and restated in more dimensional terms in a piece titled "Complex Roads (wood/lead)" at Fuentes that involves entwined stubs of tree branches.
Folksy, signlike paintings and cases displaying sneakers and sandals made of painted cardboard by Gary Garay similarly refer to low-budget commerce and extend to the present the Chicano movement's affectionate embrace of "low-brow" Mexican-American culture.
The building may have been too austere to engender the kind of affectionate embrace that Kalev Savi, Anthony Stramaglia and Lisa Turano Wojcik have thrown around Worldport in their Quixotic campaign to save it.
The dwellings at Tell el-Amarna were made of baked mud brick, and the walls, floors, and ceilings of many of the rooms were painted in a lively naturalistic style; each large house had a shrine with a stela depicting Akhenaton in the affectionate embrace of his family.
Or the time at a press party for Ms. Day's first book, when an affectionate embrace was described by scandal-hungry tabloids as something more than that ("If Demi Moore were gay, she'd announce it in Vanity Fair," Ms. Day said at the time).
Mr. Xi showed considerable warmth toward Mr. Kim, smiling widely and offering affectionate embraces.
His facial muggings, his knowing winks and affectionate embraces were also like the voice -- just exaggerated enough to be comic.
Tuesday morning, pre-coffee, I find I'm somewhat unprepared for two of the most firm, affectionate embraces of my life.
He chuckled and grinned and grabbed me in an affectionate-seeming embrace.
The video featured an affectionate couple embracing on a beach in a classic "Kodak moment" before being interrupted by the video's host.
