Sentence examples for kind of affectionate from inspiring English sources

MILLER -- You develop a kind of affectionate objectivity about it.

have invented a new kind of affectionate satire which is all but indistinguishable from an embrace.

But bonobos for example will suck on each other's tongues for about twelve minutes straight — and they're probably doing so for some kind of affectionate reason.

I didn't get on well with teachers at school and I've not been very good at forging that kind of affectionate link ever since.

The building may have been too austere to engender the kind of affectionate embrace that Kalev Savi, Anthony Stramaglia and Lisa Turano Wojcik have thrown around Worldport in their Quixotic campaign to save it.

The difference is that eros is a kind of passionate desire for an object, typically sexual in nature, whereas 'philia' originally meant a kind of affectionate regard or friendly feeling towards not just one's friends but also possibly towards family members, business partners, and one's country at large (Liddell et al., 1940; Cooper, 1977a).

Either way, it was hailed also by viewers happy to see that kind of genuine, affectionate moment between the nation's fastest-rising power couple — rather than the aforementioned stand-by-her-man moment, which is all-too-familiar a political tableau.

He will also be considered as a faithful reporter of his era, one of those writers who live fixedly in their own time, paying a kind of rueful but affectionate attention to its idiosyncrasies, its foibles, and its passing glories.

He looked like the kind of fellow who could draw a warm, affectionate, humorous caricature of a television show - like, say, the one he created for the cover of TV Guide in 1972 to promote the classic family Western Bonanza.

My partner and I offer a model of love that is kind, generous, affectionate, and fun.

Their many letters to each other are often kind and affectionate, holding out the promise of reconciliation right to the end.