Erdrich states that Angelou's prose is "very simply written", and calls her tone "mostly light, even sweet, filled with affection for her younger self".
She wears a princess gown and exaggerated makeup; her bright eyes flash with delight as she chooses among her culinary tokens of affection, sweets that she often spears on the points of her tiara.
Mr. Guest, his writing collaborator Eugene Levy (who also plays Mitch), and their goofy deadpan ensemble have decided to resuscitate the commercial folk music that survives nowadays mostly at summer camp singalongs and on public television, and they have done so with sweet-natured, loony affection.
Mr. Hynes's modest, pacific production borrows heavily from his engaging solo act Blood Orange, and Solange's sweet vocals suggest genuine affection and an informed optimism.
Though she doesn't say much in response, Lydgate "found it delightful to be listened to by a creature who would bring him the sweet furtherance of satisfying affection — beauty — repose — such help as our thoughts get from the summer sky and the flower-fringed meadows".
Capone, for his part, was enchanted with her and demonstrated his affection with sweet talk.
Let me tell you something, li'l pup: You are worthy of love and affection and sweet gestures, just as you are.
One way cheaters love to hide their lies is to shower those they are lying to with sweet, buttery love and affection.
At its infrequent best, "The Nice Guys" succeeds in making that pleasure contagious, mining a brash, vigorous comic energy from that sweet spot where male affection and aggression collide.
