Word: affectionate
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I so loooove it when people ask ME to solve their disputes. There's no need to give the presents back. They are presumably offered to show affection and not to buy it. (If they are truly admirers, they would not be trying to buy her affections.) Let her enjoy...
What, then, does Mansfield mean? Homosexual attachments are "stunted" precisely because their object of affection is another person fundamentally like the self; there is a kind of narcissism involved at the root of homoeroticism. The "civilizing" effect which Mansfield attributes to heterosexual relationships is precisely that of drawing the individual...
Los Angeles law partners Diane Abbitt and Roberta Bennett went to college together, married fraternity brothers, then fell in love with each other when Abbitt's two boys and Bennett's two girls were ages 2 to 5. The kids were often queasy about their mothers' public displays of affection...
Last year the religious right suffered a fiasco because of George Bush's defeat. Robertson and Reed had assumed early on that Bush would narrowly edge out Clinton. Thus, although they had little affection for Bush, they helped check the movement of social conservatives toward Pat Buchanan. Their expectation was...
Five minutes later, after descriptions of eyedroppers and spectral photometers, there is hardly a wide eye in the room. This love of minutiae is an affection Gore shares with Clinton, but the President and Vice President cut different impressions. Clinton is a loose and easy presence; Gore jokes that he...