"I did ask if the trip was to cost him more than he expected, but he said not to worry — 'money is to use.' " In contrast to his steady and unrestrained affection for his parents, Hockney has not settled easily into romantic relationships.
The novel flits back and forth between Armand's disappearance at the age of 53 and the evolution of his life with Aimée -- their burgeoning tour business, their well-appointed lifestyle, their long-awaited child, and, through it all, their steady and lively affection for each other.
It startles by stealth and apparent quietness, by its steady appeal to unashamed affection and sudden swerves into strangeness.
But over the past weeks he has suffered setbacks that have given rise to press articles describing an enveloping crisis and suggesting that he is starting to lose his sure and steady grip on the affections of the British electorate.
The objects of his affection include his own steady girlfriend, a female colleague, the colleague's brother, a prison-bound male client and the client's girlfriend.
The last thing he would have said about his work is that it was filled with a hidden sweetness, and yet it's there beneath the toughness and the frankness — a steady pulse of sympathy and lively affection.
Hockney stares at the camera with sweetly doting affection, twisting his legs to steady himself and cupping his chin as if he were studying a painting.
Be steady with your signs of love or affection, enough so that she doesn't forget how much you mean to her, but not so much that the power of the words gets watered down.
Remember when Senator Dole left his staff on the tarmac in Iowa or wherever it was?" The surest sign of affection from McCain is this kind of steady, sarcastic abuse, and Buchanan is clearly well liked.
As with "In the Red and Brown Water," "The Brothers Size" is set in San Pere, La., and involves a rivalry for affection, with a vulnerable character torn between safe and steady and dangerous and exciting.
