She allows herself to be picked up by strange men in bars, is generally passive and occasionally reckless, and reserves her expressions of affection and deep emotion for her tragic, sexless, literary friend, Birdmann (Ewen Leslie).
I realized for the first time how difficult certain aspects of campaigning had to be for Hillary," Mixner wrote, adding that she "reserved her displays of affection for her family and a small circle of intimates".
This is not to make any comment on the rights and wrongs (mainly wrongs: everyone, everything is wrong here) of the ECB's treatment of one of England's greatest modern batsmen, a transcendental kind of cricketer whose best innings were beyond the reach of most and who has a well-earned reserve of wider public affection as a splash of colour in often grey times.
No, these qualities may fuel the new economy, but they're not responsible for that peculiar, lustful yearning one feels for the latest cell phone or personal digital assistant, or P.D.A., an abbreviation previously reserved for "public display of affection".
For the typically reserved Layden, a public show of affection for Ewing meant a lot.
She reserved her most tender expressions of affection for cats and other small, furry animals.
For years, Mott was the best band to never quite make it; even when they did make it, with "All the Young Dudes," they still inspired the kind of affection usually reserved for beloved cult acts.
My first glimpse of Clare Short's face across the hotel lobby sparks a rush of the sort of affection ordinarily reserved for a much-loved, long-lost aunt.
Residents speak of "the parish" with the sort of affection usually reserved for a grandfather and are never far from tears when talking about how the storm crushed it.
After my mother fell sick, Susan went out of her way to show me the type of affection that's usually reserved for a person's own children.
