Word: affectionate
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How refreshing to read about things like sentiment, affection and even loyalty. Like a stubborn aunt and a boisterous nephew, our two countries have differences at every turn, but it remains the same family.
In Japan and China, this is the Year of the Dog. In the U.S., it looks suspiciously like the Year of the Hog. Suddenly, for old and young alike, Sus domestica, the farmyard pig, seems to be displacing the cat as a national object of whimsy, affection, satire and extravagant...
Freshmen, and sophomores who faced the requirement last year, have expressed reactions to the QRR ranging from indifference to genuine anger. But they agree almost unanimously that the exercise does little to ensure that computophobes will retain any facility at the keyboard or ever return to the terminal room. The...
There is no nation in the world that the American people value more highly than Britain; none to which they feel deeper personal and moral kinship; none for which they would sacrifice more, including their lives; and none on which they so depend for precisely the same attitude. Many Irish...
In the past the author has strained to pack too many ironic asides to the paragraph. In Nobody's Angel he allows some breathing space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism...