Sentence examples for an affectionate but from inspiring English sources

He was an affectionate but erratic father.

"It's a timeless image, an affectionate but critical eye on humanity," he says.

She speaks of them in an affectionate but veiled way, always stressing their kindness.

Here, in an affectionate but astringent meditation on a female friend's photographed past, the playful poet earnestly explores how the images lacerate him "simply by being over".

He has an affectionate but difficult relationship with his girlfriend, Sophina Melonie Diazz), the mother of his young daughter, whom he adores.

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.

An affectionate-but-pointed poke is enough, apparently, to kick off the fun.

She waved and gave her horse High Kingdom an affectionate slap, but there was no punch of the air.

It's an affectionate book, but without shying away from the blinkered attitude we took in not looking at things that were wrong".

Of course it is sheer chance that we formed an affectionate relationship, but perhaps she herself had an ability to love that enabled her to fit into our family.

His mother Elizabeth Coley Jones died within six days of his birth, and he was raised by his grieving father and the family housekeeper, Ann Sampson, an obsessively affectionate but humorless and unintellectual local girl.