Sentence examples for how affectionately from inspiring English sources

How sweetly she forgave me, how affectionately she clung to me!

It was impossible to visit North Hill without feeling what an occasion the visit was, and I remember well how affectionately slow the cadence of departure seemed, evening gathering, small-town Vermont lying just down the road, Wayne and Joe waving goodbye yet again.

And in a sign of how affectionately the cube is viewed in techie culture, Google in 2010 donated its computing resources to determine "God's number," the minimum number of moves required to solve the cube from any position, if one uses the most efficient method.

It's hard to tell how affectionately or otherwise these are intended, although you occasionally get the sinking feeling that Ariel Pink is signposting those that are supposed to be parodies by decorating them with wacky noises or singing them in one of his comical voices, of which he seems to have a bottomless supply.

LeBron James was so taken with Wade's performance that he came uncharacteristically close to using off-color language in the postgame interview room to describe affectionately how well his teammate had played.

In a column in The Sunday Times of Johannesburg on Oct. 19, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, a senior party member now running the party's 2009 election campaign, recounted how Mr. Mandela, known affectionately as Madiba, was humiliated during a 2002 A.N.C. meeting after he made a rare appearance to question the party's stance on AIDS.

Hundreds of people all equally as well qualified to offer up their own thanks, praise and memories of how the man affectionately known as 'JD' touched their lives and influenced them.

A September 2008 story in The Post recounts Rice's visit to Moammar Gaddafi's compound and how the Libyan leader affectionately called her "Leezza". As the story notes, Gaddafi loved him some Rice.

At lunch with a group of teen-age girls in a fashionable café during my first visit to Riyadh, a few years ago, I was startled to hear one girl boasting to the others about her devout older brother's beard, affectionately describing how fine and wispy it had been when, while still an adolescent, he first began trying to grow it out.

Swope, a children's book writer, affectionately describes how he turned his 10-day writing workshop for a class of third graders in Queens into a three-year project, devoting himself to helping this diverse group of young writers develop their own voices.

How important can something affectionately referred to as "wacky-tabbacky" be?