I suppose there are many sociopolitical insights that could be drawn by examining the liberal caste's affection for Third World study, but I'll put those aside for now.
Use liberal touching and affection.
It's the best yet from the panel show regular, 70 minutes that retain the curmudgeonliness of his early work, but leaven it with affection, improved craftsmanship and a liberal dose of self-irony.
To say those things in many parts of the country is to invite disbelief; but I have an old-fashioned affection for the institutions and customs of liberal democracy that have sustained Britain to date.
Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson seem unable to compete with conservative affection for a thrice-married, twice-divorced, socially liberal New Yorker.
He didn't like her liberal critique of his ANC but nothing could seriously disturb his affection for her.
But the 2010 contest has engendered a battle of wills on almost every liberal sofa in the land: is it ever OK to feel affection for Ann Widdecombe?
I would be delighted to hug an evangelical, but as a liberal Democrat and a gay Jewish man, I think that such affection might not be welcomed (column, April 24).
This clarity may have cost him in the 1972 election, but it was a principal source of the abiding affection that so many Americans — not all of them liberals — feel for George McGovern.
Philip, who died last week, was a liberal, old-fashioned and proud of it, and he tended to waver between fierce affection (for F.D.R., J.F.K., Clinton) and constant disdain (for Nixon, Reagan, George W).
