In the meantime, the apartment that Helen shares with Nanny (Louise lives down the hall, at least for a while) becomes a sitcom-worthy girls' club, with three generations of a family in the perennial seesaw between communal irritation and mutual affection, and occasional visits from other characters, who on television would be called guest stars.
communal living; communalism". .
After all, something elemental and profound, beyond the obvious surprise of a dowdy, middle-aged woman delivering a beautiful song with grace and verve, brought a world audience to a communal outpouring of admiration and affection.
The film is about their daily struggles, their changing values and the things they miss (communal thinking, being able to show physical affection without being thought gay).
Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal associations that enabled them to incorporate people outside the traditional boundaries of family.
Every afternoon, in a barren classroom, we taught English and math to novice monks ranging in age from 7 to 14. Starved of affection, they piled onto our laps at communal meals and visited our bedroom every night, ostensibly to seek medical attention.
Aristotle distinguished between friendships based on communal interests and those of soulmates who bonded out of mutual affection.
Apparently, the healthy brain needs to believe that memory is reciprocal and communal, which makes sense, since without such expectation we couldn't form bonds of affection or trust or, conversely, feelings of antipathy or fear, all of which are necessary for survival.
For many of the members I spoke to, affection for their clubs was often rooted in a sense of nostalgia for their schooldays, with their communal dining and narrow membership base.
It has been argued that the exigencies of communal life require agreed codes of behaviour, which become internalized in the process of socialization as moral laws; and the natural affection that develops among humans produces the more occasional sense of a call to heroic self-sacrifice on behalf of others.
