Word: warmth
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...there appears to be a good atmosphere of warmth and regard for children among adults. One rarely hears the sound of crying, and children are nearly always accompanied by a protective adult. Even the babies seem comfortable, sleeping and smiling contentedly in the midst of crowded, noisy streets and buses...
...line, the mind-boggling traffic in Jackson Woodbury with oil Hole, the rising crime rates. But I was just as surprised by the things that had not changed: the eerie desolation of a high-country road in Wyoming, the majesty of the Teton mountains, and especially the open warmth of the Westerner. I left behind me a string of meal invitations and bottomless coffee cups...
...over his audiences, nonetheless, with sermons in fluent German and his personal warmth. He joshed a boy about skipping school to greet him, and prayed that kidnapers would release an eleven-year-old girl being held for ransom near Karlsruhe. The size of the crowds was modest only by John Paul's usual standards. More than half a million braved stiff breezes for a youth Mass at Munich's Oktoberfest grounds...
...Soviets themselves seemed to like the idea of Reagan. They did not exactly say that. They seldom say such things directly, but the hosts projected an unusual warmth. Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who, with Reagan, will have served in the time of eight U.S. Presidents, greeted the thousand guests who had come for the 63rd anniversary of the revolution. He knew most of them personally. "Old friends," he said, beaming a great smile around the room. It seemed like a reunion from better times...
...this sketchy, real-life story--really no more than two incidents--director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Bo Goldman have fashioned a movie of extraordinary warmth and affection. Melvin and Howard is a neon Vermeer, a sensitive and funny look at the absurdities of late 20th-century American life in the far west. Demme looks at this amiable lug chased by a pot of gold not with condescension, but with wondrous incomprehension...