The King's Road is an affectionate way of describing Chelsea, even though then it was largely a team struggling to keep up financially with the Premier League, let alone become European champion, as it did last May.
K road is the affectionate nickname given to Karangahape Rd — the main street in Auckland where there seems to be an inordinate number of op-shops, sex stores and Japanese restaurants.
"The author proves himself an able cartographer as well as a nimble writer, mapping with affectionate but unflinching accuracy both the back roads of Louisiana... and the distance between parents and children," Liam Callanan said here last year.
She was, said people who live in this wide spot in on a narrow rural road, a pleasant if somewhat standoffish neighbor and an affectionate mother.
Anger and an affectionate sense of obligation to the heroic Young keep Donahue on the road, looking for an audience.
It has never recovered from the acrimony of his departure from Arsenal to Chelsea in 2006 and his acquisition of the less-than-affectionate nickname "Cashley" when he claimed he "almost swerved off the road in shock" when he discovered a new contract offer from the Gunners amounted to merely £55,000-a-week.
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.
Affectionate portrait of Ringo Starr at 74, skinny and fit, sober for 26 years, still on the road, still defined by the band with which he played for eight years a half-century ago.
But maybe Tim Pigott-Smith's affectionate portrayal of the heir, in Mike Bartlett's brilliant King Charles III, will finally set the Prince of Wales, too, on the road to dramatic redemption.
Affectionate partner to Bob.
