The result is a delirious and complicated story of feminine affection seen, as one of the friends puts it, in "profile in the misted-over mirror".
For the sons, the fact that they were not nursed enough, I believe, is reflected by how many of the men in our circle of acquaintances are incessantly seeking feminine affection (often tripping up in the 'serial lover' trap, and subsequently in the 'infidelity' one) and basically seeking that security they were denied during infancy.
She celebrates the "feminine affections and compassion" associated with the family and suggests that civil society will fail without them.
She described Mr. Yee's arrival to this feminine paradise with affection.
The people of Liverpool, it says, "smart under a sense of Manchester's superiority, they writhe under the impression that Manchester is ahead", Liverpool is described in the feminine form, with little affection.
So, ecstasy played a strange game in the cultural imagination, at once associated with more classically feminine traits of love and affection, all the while embedded in a culture that was visually and vocally male.
He'd pick on Spanky and the other kids about this and that, but mostly he harassed Alafalfa because they were both competing for the affections of sweet, feminine Darla.
Though celibate, the storyteller as a youth succumbed, he confesses, to his curiosity about this exotic gender and tried on the clothes of his mother and his aunt; instantly he was invaded by tinglings of feminine sensitivity, along with "an irrepressible affection toward all children" and a desire "to nurse everybody and cook for the whole world".
At Hemingway's best, the affectations are undone by an affection for the sensuous surface of life, which is of necessity erotically multivalent, neither neatly masculine nor neatly feminine.
She moved away from her on-stage overly feminine persona, her previous "girly" look and her known affection for the colour pink, and marketed herself as a sexy, sensual singer.
Whereas Sufism exalts beauty, intuition, tenderness, affection, nurturing and love, which we associate with feminine qualities.
