The friendly interest of the Flathead, Nez Percé, and other Indians they encountered in the territory of present-day Wyoming greatly encouraged the missionaries.
"There is no evidence of an erotic interest, and Bushnell certainly wasn't the last great love of Oscar Wilde's life – but there obviously was a friendly interest.
When a couple of kids take a friendly interest in Eugene, an eventual beatdown or humiliation seems like a foregone conclusion.
Invited to tea with Queen Victoria, she accepts a ride to Buckingham Palace from Alfred's best friend, who may have more than a friendly interest in the new widow.
After supper we all gathered there, and even grandfather, reading his paper by the table, looked up with friendly interest now and then.
They argued that Democrats had proven effective at cultivating their own business allies drug companies are spending millions of dollars to promote the administration's health care proposals, for example while friendly interest groups tap sympathetic billionaires and Hollywood money.
Her response to being stuck in the boondocks, subject to invasive Stasi spot checks, is to erect her own wall of defensiveness, keeping her distance from colleagues like the chief physician, André (Ronald Zehrfeld), whose friendly interest may mask a sinister agenda.
He warned that the friendly interest-rate environment will disappear if deficits substantially goose the federal government's borrowing costs.
It was the larger man who turned toward me, with apparently friendly interest, free of predation or fear, and though I was taken aback I found myself smiling in response.
But Manafort's ties to Yanukovych and other Russia-friendly interests appear to have gone well beyond the normal client-adviser relationship.
(I'd argue that lots of women like Reddit, in fact, but Lopez is referring to those "traditional" female-friendly interests – fashion, beauty, home decor, etc. – the kind of categories that have led to Pinterest's rapid growth).
