Sentence examples for casual affection from inspiring English sources

And if familiarity can breed contempt, it can also breed the wonderfully casual affection and playfulness on display Friday, as these two prodigious dancers flew through the well-worn grooves of their characters.

Because of all the sweat, blood, miles, and emotions attached to those shoes, it's more than just casual affection.

Some children who have been sexually abused may have a heightened sensitivity to casual displays of affection like hugging, kissing, or touching.

But a few casual expressions of physical affection for Sonya hint heartbreakingly at a possibility that will be foreclosed by his growing fixation on Yelena.

He moves charmingly between Shakespearean phrases and casual, contemporary asides, conveying both affection and angst toward his master, Prospero (a regal Norm Lewis, who loosens up as the show progresses, deftly playing up the character's weary questioning of his own magic).

British soccer is a unique duality – the national conduit for open displays of straight male affection and its closely related inverse, casual male violence.

When I sit down with Feig – a noted dandy, resplendent in grey pinstripe suit, purple tie and pocket square – and McCarthy – casual in head-to-toe black – the mutual affection and admiration is obvious.

My intent here is not to review The Casual Vacancy (certainly not with a kind of blind affection) -- it is not, in fact, to review at all.

But to the casual observer, his daily plunges into a bath of popular affection look like a more traditional political activity: an election campaign.

Scolding Octavius, dismissing Lepidus as no more serviceable a soldier than his horse, acknowledging an order from Caesar, greeting the conspirators with the grave affection that masks a poisonous vitriol, he conveys a casual potency.

He brought casual clothes to a level of invention and he never outgrew his affection for the collegiate style.