In medieval mystic writings, particularly Sufi texts, it is unclear whether the beloved being addressed is a teenage boy or God, providing a quasi-religious sanction for relationships between men and boys.
Patients' visitors were strongly emotionally affected by their beloved being in a critically ill state.
Baby Faith symbolizes redemption and renewal for both Skip and Lydia, but she is also simply herself, a beloved small being, pulsing with personality and promise.
This is the most beloved human being on planet earth.
The victims of these crimes are being mourned worldwide: they were human beings, beloved by their families and precious to their friends.
The thought is that on the robust concern view the lover merely tries to discover what the beloved's well-being consists in and then acts to promote that, potentially by thwarting the beloved's own efforts when the lover thinks those efforts would harm her well-being.
Central to this complex emotional orientation, Badhwar thinks, is what she calls the "look of love": "an ongoing [emotional] affirmation of the loved object as worthy of existence…for her own sake" (p. 44), an affirmation that involves taking pleasure in your beloved's well-being.
Armed with the knowledge that this secret will be revealed to you in the next post, you undoubtedly pulled out your child's college fund account designating the newly available resources to the current social well-being of your beloved offspring and college be damned.
REMSON--Al, Ph.D. Beloved and glorious human being.
But a theological truth intervenes: every human being is beloved by God, every human death mourned by God.
