His father believed that children should be indulged, loved without reservation and buried in what the author calls "vast hugs" and "excessive kisses".
Now in its sixth year, and such a huge international success, it would be forgivable if the entire London art scene just imploded into a vast group-hug of self-love.
Since June, at least 100 people have been killed during clashes in the oasis towns and cities that hug the vast Taklamakan Desert in southern Xinjiang, home to the majority of China's nine million Uighurs.
Roughly 120km south of Gujarat's largest city, Ahmedabad, a vast expanse of black soil hugs the Arabian Sea.
Known by various numbers (41; 42; 47; 49), the road hugs the edge of vast gravel deserts, vertiginous mountainscapes and isolated villages.
When she was hugged, especially by a favorite (and vast) aunt, she felt overwhelmed, overcome by sensation; she had a sense of peacefulness and pleasure, but also of terror and engulfment.
While the vast majority of social media commentary about the inappropriate hug was critical, a few users backed McLachlan and lamented the rise of political correctness.
Vintage in feeling but modern in its construction, it was a sister-to-sister hug from Philo – one that everyone in that vast space felt, as Bush's words rung in our ears.
Its vast collection of hardwoods flourishes on broad, low-lying alluvial flats that hug the Columbia River before encountering the sheer, pine-covered walls of the gorge.
"The vast majority of people in Buffalo know what it's like to be hugged by Carl, even those who don't want it," said Michael R. Caputo, Mr. Paladino's campaign manager.
