fondling

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Ivory doesn't have much success in filling in the elisions, but Guadagnino's direction compounds the superficiality with camerawork that can't resist fondling every surface it encounters.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2018

This has been going on forever – certainly since Ovid wrote of Pygmalion kissing and fondling his statue until the gods took pity.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2017

Instead of accessing the quarter-life crisis through the exploits of a solitary protagonist bumbling and fondling his way up against the limitations society had set for him, this film focused on relationships.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2014

They keep devotional attention focused, but also provide stimulation as the eye moves from different figures and gestures: hands pointing, gripping, exclaiming, fondling.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2012

Late that afternoon he came back from Lone Pine in a midnight blue Nash sedan, fondling the short, stubby gearshift that projected from its dashboard.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston