"Fellow Traveler," Mr. Adams's affectionate, self-referential 2007 birthday gift for his longtime collaborator Peter Sellars, provides an ideal coda for this vivacious, compelling set.
Loitering celebrates Fleur Talbot's release into independence as an artist and in many respects is an affectionate self-portrait as well as a dismissal of Stanford.
Singing in her languorous drawl over a fluttering samba rhythm, she paints a vivid, sensual picture, affectionate and self-contained.
The number starts out campy, affectionate and self-aware, but at some point turns desperate, grating and a little sad.
In other words, the 116th annual Gridiron Club dinner here this weekend was a rare night inside the Beltway, when the buffoonery was entirely intentional, the mockery was mostly affectionate, and self-effacement was the main course.
Together, French and Whatley have conjured an affectionate, believable wombat self-portrait.
Terms of endearment can be silly or sweet, affectionate or ironic, self-conscious or spontaneous, but whenever they're aired in public they're sure to make the flesh of the disinterested crawl.
Tor.com reviewer Meghan Deans was more critical of the episode, writing that it had a "flawed construction that diminishes what should have been one of the series' smartest and most affectionate demonstrations of self-parody".
She knew "good days," and occasionally they accumulated into weeks, months, but even on the best of the good days, those days when she was otherwise her "old self," the affectionate and charming Bonnie her friends cherished, she could not summon the social vitality her husband's pyramiding activities required.
(You're not quite certain what Mr. Swanberg's characters do, because he is less likely to show them working than to depict them musing sardonically on their reluctance to work.) He at first seems a step up for Hannah: a gifted writer and an un-self-consciously affectionate lover.
