Sentence examples for affectionate marriage from inspiring English sources

He was an intelligent and easygoing man, and it was an affectionate marriage.

Flashing smiles with her golden curls thrown back, she clearly doesn't feel guilty about her fling, maintaining what looks like an affectionate but sexless marriage.

The marriage was affectionate, but Marie became resentful of Fauré's frequent absences, his dislike of domestic life – "horreur du domicile" – and his love affairs, while she remained at home.

Attractive, amiable and well educated, they are still playfully affectionate after five years of marriage.

The couple preserved an affectionate relationship through their long marriage, occasionally holding hands at diplomatic receptions.

In the letter, Leopold congratulates Alice on her pending marriage and recalls his affectionate feelings for her and her family.

Alexander and Mary were married in 1818; the marriage, though not warmly affectionate, lasted until Alexander's death despite the large age difference.

Working from the playwright Richard Greenberg's astutely loosened up adaptation and benefiting from Mr. Mathias's obviously affectionate direction, these performers elicit the Every Marriage aspect in the captain and Alice's relationship, especially in the first act.

It changes the definition of marriage, reducing it primarily to an affectionate sexual relationship accompanied by a declaration of commitment.

(Bowen's marriage to a civil servant, while deeply affectionate, was sexless).

Here, scatty, anarchic, affectionate Annie and her brood of seven from two marriages (Laurie belonged to the second) lived "in the downstroke" of the T. At The Woolpack, where the local boy-made-good would hold court from the early Sixties up to his death in 1997, a lunchtime customer from Sydney bears witness to the Slad lad's global cult.