His screenplay is touching, realistic, and full of heart, while his direction never takes the focus away from the actors and the top notch dialogue, with particular affection given from him to Tomlin, obviously. (awardscircuit.com)
That is the point which is most important to me in the story of Balaam and his ass, and perhaps because I loved this story as a child, I responded to it with particular affection when I returned to it as an adult. (religion-online.org)
Grierson tells us that according to the Aphorisms of Sandilya (1.2), bhakti is defined as» «a [n] affection fixed upon the Lord»; but the word «affection» (anurakti) itself is further defined as that particular affection (rak ti) which arises after (anu) a knowledge of the attributes of the Adorable One» (5:539) 5 Rudolf Otto defined bhakti as «faith, filled with love, expressing itself in reverence» (11: 55). (religion-online.org)