affectingly

He writes quickly, affectingly and invitingly, somewhat in the vein of William Grant Still and Florence Price.

So much so that when a character in Ritchie’s new war film set in the country, the affectingly emotional “The Covenant,” mentions an IED, the words “improvised explosive device” helpfully pop up on screen.

In affectingly honest and nuanced portraits, she describes her mother and father.

These early portraits are moving, affectingly human portrayals of a young Ada, then a cancer researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and of his friends.

Narratively cagey as it may seem, “The Girl and the Spider” clearly, and affectingly, muses on farewells, change and our enduring or fleeting bonds to people and the places where we loved them.