Sentence examples for friendly affairs from inspiring English sources

The celebrations, in 1995 and again last year, were friendly affairs but hardly compared to the ticker-tape treatment the Rangers got in Lower Manhattan when they won the Cup in 1994.

Film festival news conferences are generally friendly affairs, giving a movie's stars and director the chance to take a public victory lap.

Quizzes, we know from our pubs and our holiday camps and our grey drizzly days on the last day of school at the end of an autumn term, are friendly affairs, a battle of wits: winners experiencing only tiny spikes of joy; losers only shallow troughs of despair.

Mostly, it was an easy friendly affair.

But it's a friendly affair, energised by hundreds of student volunteers.

Rose can testify to this event not always proving a friendly affair.

And it has been a decidedly friendly affair, with executives from both sides singing each other's praises.In this section A republic for the lucky country Mr Blair goes to Washington Wirtschaftsblunder Bloodhound or rottweiler?

The 45-minute Mass had a downright Unitarian feel, a casual, friendly affair occupied largely by hymns sung to the accompaniment of piano, acoustic guitar and a professional nightclub singer.

The protest was angry, but a relatively family friendly affair with its fair share of old people and children.

This, I gather, used to be a friendly affair until I turned up, and I relished the chance to settle a few scores on behalf of my friends – for whom I was the equivalent of a hired assassin – as well as for myself".

Talking about the track "Run Run Run", she described it as a "typical chart friendly affair, full of wailing guitar solos, and a catchy chorus that would grace any party dancefloor", and predicted that the track could possibly become her next anthem.