Word: affectionate
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Her remarkable feat is to make audiences believe at once in this woman's intelligence and her ultimate helplessness, so that they view her as her son does: with affection and even admiration despite her frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she...
There was even then the unshakable feeling that Reagan had accomplished what no other President since Andrew Jackson had done: inspire enough affection for himself, and respect for his policies and presence, to anoint his successor. Jackson did it for Martin Van Buren, Reagan for George Bush.
"Any Kennedy who runs begins with a tremendous reservoir of respect and affection with a large number of voters," said James Roosevelt Jr., who also lost to Kennedy that year.
According to the notice on the Union's intramural board, six teams have already been disqualified from competition due to "dereliction of duty and alienation of affection." Those teams have forfeited so many times that they will not be scheduled for any more intramural games.
is the most closely contested large state, and Dukakis cannot win without it. Though the state has gone Republican in eight of the past nine elections, it has an affection for change that the Democrat is fighting to exploit. Neither candidate has a natural claim on Californians' sentiments. That, and...