We still remember the names of famous weather forecasters, long banished to the regions or commercial ventures, with affection.
Even if you're paired, though, there's the pathetic, uncute longing for your partner to buy you flowers/truffles/outrageously overpriced dinner/some commercial token of their affections that -- politically -- you want to think is stupid.
The critical acclaim has been accompanied by a huge commercial success and a genuine audience affection.
That network's season premiere of "The Bachelor," in which 25 women are vying for the affection of Jake Pavelka, a commercial pilot, drew an average of 9.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen's estimates.
While frequently despising the current batch of commercials, TV audiences often have an astonishing affection for older adverts – an attitude which can be described as Marmite … appropriately enough because of a TV commercial.
Two years ago Colbie Caillat sprang up from the MySpace brush with "Bubbly," a lifeless declaration of affection in search of a shampoo commercial: "It starts in my toes/Makes me crinkle my nose," and so on.
It turns out that Duke, the Golden Retriever made famous by the Bush's Baked Beans commercials, is the object of Klausner's unrequited affection (and he's not returning any of her tweets).
Far from going negative, many of the post-strike commercials take a triumphant tone, seeking to play off the affection that most viewers feel for their favorite shows.
Tell them that when a young man and young woman love each other very much and are in a packed, sweaty nightclub playing commercial hip-hop, yes, they sometimes twerk to express their affections.
His soi-disant "new form" of theatre is both a provocation and an appeal, a direct attack on the commercial folderol that has made Arkadina a star and a plea for the affection that she is so adept at withholding.
