Word: affectionate
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Despite listing these off-the-wall examples of “gifted” behavior, don’t get me wrong. Although I certainly have been shocked and befuddled by numerous inexplicable acts of gifted lunacy and tomfoolery over the past few weeks, I have nothing but the utmost...
The grim situation causes anguish for the elder Rooney. He loves Michael far better than he does his natural son. But blood is thicker than affection; he must support the psychopath. There is deeper anguish for the senior Sullivan. It is not just that his wife and younger boy have...
But the very existence of Sounds of the River (Harper Collins; 307 pages), the U.S.-based author's second memoir in his adopted tongue, assures us that despite the odds against him, this callow country bumpkin will somehow make good in the big city. The book is comprised of a...
Who would have thought, moreover, that a pair of homogenous countries known more for xenophobic impulses would genuinely welcome thousands of strangers, simply because they shared an affection for football? At first Japan, in particular, was worried that hooligans would invade it, a thinly veiled prejudice that assumed outsiders would...
Khoo Thwe captures the rhythms and rituals of village life with a humor and affection one might not expect from a narrator who confesses, "I was desperate to shed my tribal traditions." That process begins at Mandalay University, where he studies his first love, English literature, and meets his second...