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There was, says Billington, an almost Lear-like affection (for Cordelia) at play here.

A Wynton-like affection for reworking pre-bop jazz forms surfaces on a New Orleans-style blues stomp, with Blanchard delivering sly, corner-of-the-mouth insinuations and high, squealing bleats.

They are tightly wound, tightly edited blasts of comedy drawn from a Tarantino-like affection for films and filmmakers of the past.

"Even like, affection," Chen adds.

In spite of these differences, kindredwas a word we often felt and used.The man was shy, though came to lifewhen he spotted an uncommon bird,and the woman lively, sometimes even funnyabout barometer readings and sudden dipsin pressure, the general state of things.We liked their affection for each otherand for dogs.

"He liked affection like anybody else.

Physical closeness and touch signal liking, affection, and love.

She felt pity and something like perverse affection for him.

"Frances Ha" felt like a high point of affection for humanity, as if Baumbach's being in love with Gerwig had given him the freedom to be a bit more generous about people — or, as Ian Parker put it in his 2013 Profile of them, called "Happiness," "a sweetly unfamiliar spirit of joy," or, "at least, the prospect that life may hold satisfactions beyond survival".

I guess I'm saying that now I understand those list-making lovers of obscure films, and to prove it, I'd like to express my affection for Young Ones, a film written and directed by Jake Paltrow that you almost certainly haven't heard of but definitely shouldn't miss.

Some Republicans believe Senator John McCain's maverick image will play well in a state with a history of affection for contrarian Republicans, like former Senators Mark O. Hatfield and Bob Packwood.

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