Word: affectionate
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For their part, political leaders have courted poets, supported poets, quoted poets. Some have even been poets. Henry VIII, who liked to write verse when he wasn't making life brutish or short for his wives. Chairman Mao, who, when visited by the muse, commanded the largest audience for poetry...
Yolanda (Mary Anthanis) also gets her share of surprises. In an agonizingly slow manner, Rey informs her that her best friend has been raped and killed, and that her husband, who has close connections to the armed forces and to the Presidente, is responsible. Soon after, Rey picks this opportune...
It is a poignant and beguiling love story. For Turner gradually comes to appreciate Francis' obsessive affection. His sets are going great (and the film is full of good jazz played by such stalwarts as Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins and Wayne Shorter). He is pleased to swap solos and memories...
Two things really bother me about such language. One of these is the abuse of the word "like," which with the exception of similes and expressions of mild affection, should not be used. It seems to me that people use it when they can't like, you know, think of...
By the end of her nine-day, four-city U.S. tour, Aquino garnered not just the affection of the Americans she had met but their respect. The woman who a year ago had been widely regarded as an untutored political amateur, famous only as the widow of the assassinated opposition...