Sentence examples for formal affection from inspiring English sources

To his favorite players, Brown could show formal affection.

Mr. Holdeman noted that Penn was known to be a very formal person who rarely openly displayed affection, so the inscriptions "show an intimate side to him that I don't think anyone has seen".

His "Streams," revived this season, was actually the nearest the 2011 repertory came to being remotely controversial: amid one episode for couples, it very pointedly shows a male-male couple whose formal behavior nonetheless includes unmistakable physical affection.

He described himself as "spiritual but unaffiliated" with a formal religion, even as he offered unqualified affection for the new pope.

There are no Clueless moments, where affection suddenly snaps into love, or formal coronations.

"Duck" was the formal, vous version of "Ducky," their term of affection for each other.

The first lady was forced into the unique position of issuing formal statement denying the allegation, and praising her husband's tenderness and affection.

Weddings are very formal, and you don't always get the ring of affection.

Two same-sex duets echoed each other, with partnering that suggested now affection and intimacy, now a more objective or formal approach.

Anderson had no formal training in the supply field, and though regarded with affection was variously considered "not quite on the same wave length as others" and "so immersed in the minutiae of administration that some important policy matters languished".

Everything is stamped with his touch, his unease, his affections and his mistrust, even in his most public and formal commissions.