fondling

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Two posts later, she’s fondling ill falcons and owls at a Saudi veterinary hospital.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018

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

In 1889 he depicted himself as a doleful, abandoned Jesus in Gethsemane; then as gimlet-eyed Satan fondling a snake; and finally, in a ceramic sculpture, as a bleeding severed head.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2011

As the stone door closed behind him, Taran saw King Eiddileg fondling his head and beaming happily.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander