At the thought of the boy he smiled with affectionate amusement.

Kirk saw the look of affectionate amusement in Spock's and the sadness.

The sensitivity which had developed in Burden late in life always brought Wexford a kind of affectionate amusement.

In some poems the conceits and the general tone of affectionate amusement with men can get in the way of engagement.

And then there is the laugh: a muffled machine-gun noise somewhere between affectionate amusement and absolute horror.

It wasn't derisive, but rather a laugh of almost affectionate amusement.

She turned off the shower, stepped out and pulled a big bath towel round her, looking at Collier with affectionate amusement.

Yet in the tribal culture, such people are treated with affectionate amusement.

For a pair of single women past middle age, they were fascinated by marriage, Laura thought with affectionate amusement.

She smoothed the sheets with a mixture of affectionate amusement and hope.