Writing with affection tinged with condescension, Ms. Prose depicts Lula as a feisty but daydreamy sort of girl, who is given to embroidering her past.
Goethe writes with affection about the wide-open world of the actor, which is full of escapades and love affairs, bed tricks and impersonations.
He even wrote with affection of Reginald Maudling, a name scarcely mentioned since its owner's plunge into political obloquy in the early 1970s.
mac Millings writes, with affection: "In response to Phil Sawyer's 9.15pm request, four years ago - almost to the day - Gary Naylor had his own Wikipedia page.
When Blair asked Kelly if he was unhappy that she was helpless around the house, he told her, she writes with affection in "The Memory of All That," her autobiography, "What I want is what I have, you — to pick flowers and read by the fireplace and sing around the house — my little white dove with the burnished feathers that wakes up every morning smiling".
Kovacs's hopeless, elegiac vision of the city is touching, and his quick studies of hidden landmarks like the outré bar in the French Quarter that calls itself Pravda, and Pampy's, a purveyor of soul food to politicians, are written with true affection and terrific humor.
Here is a book that provides total pleasure — a picaresque contemporary "Candide" or "Don Quixote," written with both affection and a gimlet eye, about a young, earnest textbook salesman (territory: Oklahoma and Texas), George Brush, who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and doesn't believe in unmarried sex, and who blunders into one ludicrous situation after another through his honesty and naïveté.
Written with contagious affection for the peninsula's untamed landscape and easygoing people, "Medea and Her Children" takes place mostly in the summer of 1976, when the childless widow Medea Mendez, born Sinoply, welcomes the return of her vacationing nieces and nephews, whose families have been scattered throughout the Soviet imperium.
And yet this book is written with great, backhanded affection for the lost world in which she grew up, with all its obvious peculiarities.
The authors of "The Front Page" write with special affection of Colonel Cobb and Frank Craven interprets him splendidly.
