Sentence examples for open affection from inspiring English sources

Such open affection between brothers did not come easily in my family.

Their open affection for each other, their easily expressed happiness, was a new and romantic thing to me.

He contrasts their "open affection" with his own more contentious regard for Mick, their bond being one that "turned life comic at the expense of anything gentle".

Most endearing, perhaps, was the open affection for Michelle Obama that Bush has displayed while promoting his book ("Portraits of Courage," featuring his paintings of post-9/11 veterans).

Describing a deep friendship that followed, he hailed Mrs. Graham with open affection as "a seminal figure in the battle to submit even the highest officials to ethical and judicial norms".

This time, the Coens expressed open affection for their lunkheads: Hi and Ed talk in moralistic platitudes culled from the Bible and self-help manuals, and, loving their snatched quint, they desperately want to do what's right — that's the comedy built into their outrageous behavior.

This tells him, in body language, that you're not open to affection.

Spock wrote Baby and Child Care partly to counteract the rigid pediatric doctrines of his day, which emphasized strict feeding schedules for infants and discouraged open displays of affection between parent and child.

So I wondered whether his tendency to "bang on a lot", as he puts it, and make open displays of affection to his wife, are a deliberate reaction against that familial trait.

He left high school because of it at the age of 16, quit a job a couple of months ago to avoid being called a "faggot", and is careful to avoid open displays of affection with his partner when he walks down the street of his Alabama town.

And from the smiles and open displays of affection here, you may think that being gay in Russia is not a problem.