Sentence examples for affectionate response from inspiring English sources

Rutter supplies a good dollop as a bristling Brabantio; his ire and his self-casting as the father of the bride win him an affectionate response from his home audience.

CBS, Saturdays at 8, starting Oct. 7. * "ED" The one new NBC series that seems to be getting an affectionate response, this gentle, likable hourlong comedy is not big on laughs but it works because of its sweet characters.

Mr. Fisher, now 42 and overwhelmed at the affectionate response in his hometown, said he hoped the resolve to do better would benefit not just the 5,400 children in Cleveland's child welfare system, but also the more than 560,000 children in the system nationwide.

The tifosi and the Italian press, who did not always take to Schumacher's relatively cold public persona, displayed an affectionate response after he announced his retirement.

Cats are affectionate and responsive creatures.

As for Knightley, while her role may tend somewhat toward brainy posh-girl caricature (the exclamation "Oh!" becomes "Ay-o!"), she manages to breathe warmth and humanity into the character of Joan, a likable foil to the impenetrable Turing, her affectionate gaze mediating our response to his perpetually unbreakable enigma.

Primary measures are: infant gaze aversion, mother-infant gaze coordination, infant distress, maternal interaction style (affectionate vs. intrusive), and responses of mothers and infants to gaze aversion.

The responses he received were colorful, harsh, affectionate.

The responses are uniformly positive and sincerely affectionate: "other-dad -type feelings; "insane and beautiful fucking madman!"; "I'd have dother-dad -typer that man".

In studies of rats, researchers have shown that affectionate mothering alters the expression of genes, allowing them to dampen their physiological response to stress.

Makari doesn't cite Freud's somewhat morose response: "Only a funeral oration at the Central Cemetery is normally as beautiful and affectionate".