A title novella and 15 stories made up the nearly 400 pages of Joyce Carol Oates's Sourland, a collection with an obsessive focus on the plight mainly of naive young female adolescents and newly bereaved women in a world of pain, suffering, loss, and dangerous affections.
The industriously unearthed details of how West Coast soda jerks used to concoct a "Suicide" or of how truly precarious amusement-park rides used to be are fascinating in themselves but marginal to his tale of divided loyalties and dangerous affections.
Playing "hard to get" is a tricky, dangerous, and somewhat sleazy way to win affection.
For all that we feel so much affection for it, the Festival is a dangerous beast for punters and those who forget it will shortly receive a reminder.
From the moustachioed, hot water-drinking Britons to the proud Corsicans with their dangerous cheeses Uderzo has gently mocked, but also shown affection for, individuals who stay true to themselves.
"You build such affection, just as you find doing something in a dangerous situation with a friend.
As with "In the Red and Brown Water," "The Brothers Size" is set in San Pere, La., and involves a rivalry for affection, with a vulnerable character torn between safe and steady and dangerous and exciting.
They set dangerous precedents, cultivate bad habits and perpetuate some seriously undesirable ideas about boys, girls, love, consent and affection.
"Blind periods" produce further problems: Toxoplasma infections are dangerous during any time in pregnancy, but the risks of transmission to the foetus and the resulting clinical affections differ from trimester to trimester [ 26].
