They repelled our attempts at friendship and we stopped trying.
The first is the fact that men and women arrive at friendship in different ways.
I was playing at friendship and willing it to be real.
No distance at all, and friendship, founded on respect, at first, and then something beyond.
I was delighted with the thing; its simplicity and sincerity stood out among our conventional little compromises at friendship like an ideal.
Of course, Sylvie had never reciprocated his clumsy attempts at friendship.
She had rebuffed their attempts at friendship, or even light-hearted companionship.
It seemed terribly unfair that her one chance at true friendship should be tainted, so distorted by lies and deceit.
The best way to handle things, he decided, was to cut short any attempts at friendship on his part.
This comedy takes a look at friendship, loyalty, and love.