How To Use Fondness In A Sentence

If all this seems a little negative, let me assure you I now feel an almost pathological fondness for the place. Times, Sunday Times
For the fondness or averseness of the child to some servants, will at any time let one know, whether their love to the baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present. Pamela
He came from a musical family, and he played the trumpet and the saxophone and had a fondness for jazz. Times, Sunday Times
I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions.
She was a good hand at the baking, something which she retained a fondness for up to the last year of her life.

The Romans had a special fondness for mineral spas, visiting them for medicinal and recreational purposes.
Still, the result is an entertaining overview that can be recommended both to surfers and to landlubbers who appreciate the spectacle and have a fondness for the associated strand of American youth culture.
Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels, drawn partly from comic cinema.
Those we recall with greatest fondness, all cut their figures against a wider, more luminous backdrop than mere office.
Because of the family's tradition of taking the name of one's parent of the same gender, her brother was the only Preston among many Scotts, more Stuarts, a scatter of MacLaughlins, and one Ishimoto, a great-uncle Dannan remembered with great fondness. THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
His fondness for chromaticism was such that Schoenberg suspected he would soon join the ranks of the atonalists, but for Reger chromaticism was a means of expanding the resources of tonality, not a harbinger of its imminent collapse.
The word "nuthatch" is derived from the fondness of the Eurasian species for hazel nuts. The Annotated "Eyes of the World"
As if historical fact weren't enough, Jones also shows a fondness for, and in fact a deft hand with, fanciful flights of whimsy.
‘I like woodsy areas,’ she says - a fondness she attributes to her rural upbringing.
The press has done a public service exposing this government's fondness for spin, rich businessmen and fat donation cheques.
He also has a fondness for baseball caps, and presides over the recording studio much like a sports coach might encourage his team from a dug-out, cajoling, wisecracking and offering suggestions.
They desire clear, unbending moral and behavioral codes, a fondness for systematization, a willingness to tolerate inequality and an inherently pessimistic view of human nature. June Carbone: Polarized Politics: How Extremists Have Taken America Hostage
And a fondness for watching daytime quiz shows. The Sun
I try to get into full tuck sometime on every ride, for as long as my fondness for beer will allow without too much discomfort, in order to gradually 'acclimatise' myself. In Transition: Livable Streets, Lovable Lenses
Abbreviated from a 1925 Paris exhibition, art deco was a mix of cubism, art nouveau and Russian ballet, with a fondness for strident colours and geometric lines.
The groups at the conference spoke piously of their fondness for democracy.
There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness.
There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness.
I've always had a certain fondness for her.
I will say that I have a certain fondness for the idea of tossing everyone in Congress in jail on a giant RICO prosecution. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More on the Thomas/Arpaio RICO
His artwork was visionary, defined by its luscious gouache and photorealism, and his fondness for dressing his characters in the cartileginous mugs of actors like Kirk Douglas.
he had a fondness for whiskey
The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. Advice to Our Next President, From Our First President
Greek fondness for resinated wine originated in antiquity when goatskin wine bags and later wooden barrels were sealed with resin to prevent leakage.
It is that fondness for delving into experiences and locations that leads John to acknowledge that some people say he lives in the past rather than the present.
This she puts down to our fondness for school uniforms. Times, Sunday Times
It turns out that he has a particular fondness for penguins, and has taken it upon himself to create a rookery for them.
He liked to think that Janey, as he called Sacagawea, had a kind of fondness for him too. The Berrybender Narratives
Among his many enthusiasms is a great fondness of Eastern music.
But I can say I have a fondness for the California Arts & Crafts style that Bernard Maybeck inspired me with in the early part of my schooling and career.
Her people's era on West 107th long since past, Mrs. Weissman had no fondness for the coarse new crowd, and in truth, was a kind of pitiable figure - a yenta who had lost her nosiness.
The Americans tend toward a flat, emblematic depiction of commercial imagery, whereas the British often favor an episodic approach to narrative that betrays a fondness for the facture of Abstract Expressionism.
I think she had some special fondness for the Lake District and loved the outdoors.
A man with a great fondness for the outdoor life, he loved to ramble in the countryside and experience the peace and quiet of the land.
Also stating on many occasions (again chuckling) while shaking his head that the Canadians,. the Eskimo, who from what he said had a fondness for using the 30 -30 on polar Bears. Happy Holidays From The Gun Nut
And yet all his life, his integrity warred with a flair for the theatrical, a fondness for tall tales.
There is a sense, too, that Spielberg has a special fondness for the young chancer - perhaps recognising something of himself in his precocious exploits.
The young artists of the Pandit community, born away from their motherland artistically demonstrated vibrancy, depth and richness of the kashmiri culture, and their fondness of Kashmiri customs and traditions. Muslim-Pandit brotherhood, harmony intact:, Young Pandit artists showcase Kashmiri culture
So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs ... Marina Lewycka - live webchat - 8th July, 2009
He and his wife had a summer home in the Adirondacks, where in the brief vacations his career permitted him he indulged his admitted fondness for fly-fishing, and for the recreation few people outside his family knew he enjoyed: bird-watching. O: A Presidential Novel
In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism.
More popular than the azimuth quadrant, but I have a particular fondness for the latter. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Not but what I know ladies of a certain description often have birds, but then their fondness is all affectation and fashion; but this poor thing was all nature. Belinda
They asked about his speed and his fondness for Pedigree Chum Select Cuts, and all expressed interest in his bowel movements.
He has been inspired by his great grandfather, a seannachie folk historian, who would "go from village to village, telling stories", and his Irish mother's fondness for teaching him and his brothers history through a series of exciting stories. Archive 2007-03-01
Aficionados all share a certain fondness for the transporter, the device that allowed the intrepid crew of the Enterprise to plunk down on various planets without benefit of spacecraft.
There are signs of the latter's influence within Pedro de Cristo's music, including a fondness for narrow overall ranges 16 notes being typical in the works of Francisco de Santa Maria and in the early part of Pedro de Cristo's surviving output, syllabic declamation in crotchets, and the simultaneous use of a cambiata figure in one part and passing notes in another. Archive 2009-04-01
But she was not too upset, for she knew it was a gesture of fondness and respect for Hector Quintero.
An excessive interest in high academic achievement or a fondness for art or music are viewed by many young men as unmasculine.
She also tells her that it is his fondness for his son that is to blame, for, despite knowing his unrighteous desires, he has pampered and supported him in his insatiate hunger for the kingdom.
Some examples follow below, from the quadrilingual Dutch work of the period, Moderne Kerken in Europe en America, which also includes some strange Central European and French monstrosities, not shown here -- though I admit a secret fondness for the etherial openness of Perret's Notre Dame du Raincy, just not all that exposed concrete. Some Examples of Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Church Architecture
Smoking is the most important cause, though a fondness for salt is another disturbing trend that irritates the stomach.
Apart from our penchant for ritual, in matters of corruption it is our fondness of explaining and excusing the crime that is most visible.
He had a great fondness for sport and was a strong supporter of the Galway hurling and football teams.
Drusus, despite certain defects, such as irascibility and a marked fondness for pleasure, gave evidence that he possessed the requisite qualities of a statesman ” firmness, sound judgment, and energy. The Women of the Caesars
They are on the lookout for what they can steal and they have a fondness for people like you. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
Presently she gets up, and throwing her arms round him, seemed far from undelighted with the trial he had put her to, to judge at least by the fondness with which she ey'd and hung upon him. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
I'm starting to develop a new fondness for my poor, unloved, rejected rejects.
Although suspicious of unknown admirers, Tennyson was a sociable man, with a fondness for declaiming his work to a respectful audience.
He's known to be handy with his fists, has a notorious fondness for fast cars, and now it seems he's a fan of loud music: obviously a prime candidate for an antisocial behaviour order.
He also points to a fondness for strong drink taken neat; whisky and vodka rather than English ale or Irish stout.
Others have, " replied Letterman, referring to George Bush's fondness for lengthy brush-clearing trips at his Texas ranch.
Traditionally run by women and without licences, today's shebeens and taverns are a profitable option based on humanity's fondness for the occasional toot.
Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sea, Indian blood means roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity, Roman blood means conquest. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
Mr. Chávez has shown some fondness for a repressive political system like Cuba's current gerontal oligarchy. Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
He shows genuine fondness for her as a strikingly handsome woman.
She had moreover a great fondness for intervals of solitude, which since her arrival in England had been but meagrely met. The Portrait of a Lady
Music was dear to her heart and Delia had a fondness for Irish music and the old songs and ballads.
There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand.
Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature, and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs -- these are called up of the float of the brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his birth. Poems By Walt Whitman
Another sore point was de Gaulle's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric, which sometimes came at the expense of substance.
Millar didn't care much for sentiment, but he remembered Bilsland with some fondness.
You can see that his fondness for modulation by thirds and enharmonic shifts comes from French composers.
But what touched her was the serenity, even gaiety of his old age—“Being always perfectly happy, he had a charm about him”—and his fondness for disconcertingly simpleminded jokes, something he had always shared more readily with colleagues than he could with his own family “Kill Sydenstricker!” went a favorite one-liner passed round the missionaries of North Kiangsu. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Personally, the thing I most deplore is the fondness for tobacco, but there doesn't seem much point in trying to argue that away, either: this was a man who rebelled, who thought for himself, and who liked to shock. Be the change that you want to see
At first she could imagine no hope for their fondness for bad wine, their thievishness, their absolute unreliability, their invincible resistance to thrift, cleanliness, and common sense.
Hence, my fondness for minor operations. Times, Sunday Times
There is the same postmodern intertextuality; the same philosophical tendency; the same fondness for cryptic sentences. Times, Sunday Times
Presently she gets up, and throwing her arms round him, seemed far from undelighted with the trial he had put her to, to judge at least by the fondness with which she eyed, and hung upon him. Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
His Welsh genes allow him to have a totally different view on life although he hasn't lost any of the traditional Welsh values, including a fondness for sheep.
He seems to possess some innate badness of character and fondness for low company.
While one can find superficial resemblances of idiom, in particular a fondness for fourths, and a seriousness of attitude, the music doesn't really come across as derivative - that is, without a reason of its own for being.
Yet again, you have to wonder about the company Tony keeps and his apparent fondness for sucking up to media barons and other people of wealth or influence.
Merging narrative with her fondness for trochaic tetrameter, a variation on the swinging ‘pick rhythm’ that drives most work songs, Yancey revises the ballad tradition in the book's concluding selections.
And this diet, which would kill anybody but a pre-teen girl with a stomach of steel, left me with an eternal fondness for these three staples of the English gastronomy.
Another legacy of the nobility to filter down to the streets is a fondness for witchcraft and sorcery.
There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness. Times, Sunday Times
An acute political awareness and a fondness for '50s comic strips inform his odd blend of malevolence and whimsy.
The thought of her honor, so carefully guarded, and so unhappily lost, was torture to her; but the worst was her fear that her lover had broken his word to her, which she did not believe he could ever have done unless he loved some fairer lady, and in doting fondness had suffered her to extort the secret from him. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
In the first place there is the pleasure, and thus inordinate fondness of play is opposed to _eutrapelia_. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
The caressing fondness with which he uttered the last word imparted to his seemingly supreme beauty an added warmth of appeal. The Patient Observer And His Friends
They regarded him as a playfellow rather than a partner, and treated him with more fondness than respect’.
Phrenologically the Indian allows his alimentiveness to overbalance his group of organs which show veneration, benevolence, fondness for society, fêtes champêtres, etc., hope, love of study, fondness for agriculture, an unbridled passion for toil, etc. Comic History of the United States
It is a position anciently known, and modern experience hath allowed it for a sad truth, that absence and time, -- like cold weather, and an unnatural dormition -- will blast and wear out of memory the most endearing obligations; and hence it was that some politicians in love have looked upon the former of these two as a main remedy against the fondness of that passion. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II
This preference of hers was so strongly associated with Catholicism that some of her subjects would later question the sincerity of Elizabeth's profession of the Protestant faith because of her fondness for sumptuous "papist" altar cloths. 163 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
He spoke with such fondness of the tuna melt, that despite my disdain for tinned tuna, I felt compelled to try one.
He also points to a fondness for strong drink taken neat; whisky and vodka rather than English ale or Irish stout.
All but the fourth are in 3/4 time, echoing Schubert's fondness for dances in triple meter.
Traditionally run by women and without licences, today's shebeens and taverns are a profitable option based on humanity's fondness for the occasional toot.
He was an accomplished fiddle player and retained a fondness for music all his life.
The Romans had a special fondness for mineral spas, visiting them for medicinal and recreational purposes.
Sanjay's tryst with the world of music began during his school and college days, and grew out of his fondness for dancing and dance music.
While I'm not keen on the notion that we're all dependent on something in these addiction-obsessed times, I know that my fondness for adrenaline-surfing exceeds healthy limits and that (for the nth time) I need to Do Something About It.
Your merit and fondness for your father or give it to your boyfriend which the hand chains with different links of london pendants as a timely gift which represents strong and longevous to them. VInvesting.com
Camilla was now intent to clear the history of the cotillon; when Mrs. Berlinton approaching, and, with graceful fondness, taking her hand, entreated to be indulged with her society: and, since she meant not to dance, for Edgar had not asked her, and the Major she had refused, she could not resist her invitation. Camilla
Another intimate friend of the kaiser, who possesses much the same talents de societe as Baron Kiderlen-Waechter, and whose position in the high favor of the kaiser has been a subject of much unfavorable comment, and even of open abuse in Berlin, is Baron Holstein, popularly known as the “Austern-Freund” or “Oyster-Friend,” owing to his altogether phenomenal capacity for the absorption of bivalves, and his strongly developed fondness for good cheer! The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
More popular than the azimuth quadrant, but I have a particular fondness for the latter. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
But the fondness of the characterisation is deceptive: tonight, Brodkin never lets Nelson transcend the stereotype, never suggests that a sarf London geezer might have broader horizons than we expect. Lee Nelson's Well Good Tour – review
Although indicative of his fondness for frippery, the quip also points to his lack of political insight.
And when institutions in Japan announce their manga awards, my fondness is coupled with a serious spike in my covetous streak. 04 « December « 2009 « Precocious Curmudgeon
Greek fondness for resinated wine originated in antiquity when goatskin wine bags and later wooden barrels were sealed with resin to prevent leakage.
Fed up with what he described as his superior's fondness for golf, he began training a paramilitary force for the opposition Red Shirts that the army branded as "terrorists" and opened a direct line of communication to ousted populist leader Thaksin Shinawatra, whom the army removed in a coup four years ago. Thai Rogue General Dies, More Violence Feared
Nor was his fondness for pisciculture exceptional in his times. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
Drusus, despite certain defects, such as irascibility and a marked fondness for pleasure, gave evidence that he possessed the requisite qualities of a statesman -- firmness, sound judgment, and energy. The Women of the Caesars
Let us banish from our minds the New York Times's recent profile of MIA and its author, Lynn Hirschberg, who, depending on your view, is either asmart journalist that gave a gobby, incoherent pop star enough rope, or someone so intent on stitching MIA upshe might as well have rocked up with a sewing machine instead of a Dictaphone and a plate of truffle chips – Arulpragasam's fondness for the latter being apparently symbolic of her inherent hypocrisy. MIA: Maya | CD Review
He remembers his time there with real fondness and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
It is no surprise, really, that even "moderate" conservatives have a certain fondness for Franco, who, after his victory, proceeded to execute 200,000 Spaniards who did not share his conservative values. Archive 2009-03-01
In this photo, he his fondness for rabbit hunting at his private hunting lodge.
Your fondness for a night out is well documented. The Sun
I look back with great fondness, espescially my 'shallow-grave' experience I had at the age of 9, where our group came across disturbed earth out near 'our' club-place in the suburbs of Houston accompanied by the smell of putrescence ... The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 22 - The Dangerous Animals Club | /Film
Missionaries in particular (without, apparently, noticing the irony) mapped indigenous women in terms of their subjugation to polygynous marriage and lovolo (bridewealth), their "immoral" fondness for communal drinking and nocturnal "orgies," and their stubborn insistence on diagnosing illness and misfortune as symptoms of witchcraft. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
He also had an inexplicable fondness for overstuffed pastrami sandwiches. FLOATING CITY
So are strikes carried out by illegal-immigrant operatives with a fondness for strip joints living in the United States.
Those we recall with greatest fondness, all cut their figures against a wider, more luminous backdrop than mere office.
There is a fondness for its indigents in Wellington I have never seen in any other community.
The New Mexicans, both men and women, had a great fondness for jewelry, dress, and amusements; of the latter, the fandango was the principal, which was held in the most fashionable place of resort, where every belle and beauty in the town presented herself, attired in the most costly manner, and displaying her jewelled ornaments to the best advantage. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
However, she had the charm, and those who feared her were also fond of her; the fear and the fondness being perhaps both heightened by what may be called the iridescence of her character -- the play of various, nay, contrary tendencies. Daniel Deronda
The fondness is so fresh I assumed he was talking about a recent trip.
It was the face of one very young and beautiful, and the deep, tender eyes looked down, as with a watchful fondness, upon the lucubrator and his labours. The Disowned — Volume 04
During practice, it got away from Miles and smashed into a tree, an obstacle so rare at Sebring that the team modified his nickname "Teddy Teabagger" - based on his fondness for his afternoon "cuppa" - to "Teddy Treebagger. Autoblog
The press release for Professor Andy Meharg's book Venomous Earth, "scientific, cultural and political history of arsenic", mentions further arsenical anecdotes such as the Madeleine Smith case, William Morris wallpapers, and the origin of a long-standing Scottish prejudice against green sweets (a fondness of traders in 19th century Greenock for the toxic Scheele's Green - copper arsenite - as a food dye in confectionery). Arsenic
She was devoted to her family and had a great fondness for the traditions and customs which were part of her upbringing.
His fondness for the firewater cost him a seven-day jail sentence earlier this month following a second drink-driving offence.
I retain a certain fondness for him that is admittedly entirely unwarranted.
The novelist Mark Winegardner, a veteran of the retreat circuit (he calls Yaddo his "go-to colony"), looks back with a certain fondness on the pre-Internet days, though he acknowledged the "anxiety and friction" among artists as they lined up after dinner to use payphones. Retreats Surrender to Wi-Fi
The tree is typically Carioca in its brashness and audacity, but despite the city's fondness for it, Rio is not famed for its yuletide.
It seems that Frank had a West Indian touch to him, to the way he batted and the way he lived, to his splendid unconcern for the record books and his fondness for rum.
This gave me hope where a flawless poet might have made me dispair … his metrical variety, his fondness for complicated stanza forms, were an invaluable training in the craft of making. Auden on Hardy and Free Verse
Over a third of women in their twenties are binge drinkers and their fondness for products like vodka and cocktails have helped drive spirits sales.
He also has some infatuation with Tolkien, as might be guessed from the name, lives in California, and has a fondness for taunting snowbound Minnesotans with photos of blooming flowers.
‘If things ever got serious and the rose-coloured glasses had to come off, I wouldn't have the fondness about it that I do,’ Trish tells me.
Women are peculiarly fitted to further such a combination — first, from their greater tendency to mingle affection and imagination with passion, and thus subtilize it into sentiment; and next, from that dread of what overtaxes their intellectual energies, either by difficulty, or monotony, which gives them an instinctive fondness for lightness of treatment and airiness of expression, thus making them cut short all prolixity and reject all heaviness. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
Against this he balances what he describes as Henry IV’s passionate fondness for them.38 In sum, this treatise is a model of how a liking for good food could be combined with an interest in health, antiquity, and pleasure. Savoring The Past
The Ulster-born poet's fondness for obscure consonance, half-rhymes and visual rhymes has become an instantly identifiable signature, mostly exhilarating, sometimes galling, even pretentious.
E.g. a fondness for Linnaean taxonomy in paleontology leads pretty rapidly to an acceptance of paraphyletic groups based on overall similarity, which then requires one to subjectively delineate the paraphyletic groups based on some fairly arbitrary “it looks like a pretty big difference to me” criterion. Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb
Interestingly, Stevenson's fondness for retrospection does not seem to have blinded him but rather to have sharpened his sensitivity to seeing.
To those who remember this series with a certain fondness, I'd like to play a game: it's called 'pretend Saw VII never happened'. Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Saw VII 3D (2010)
As a non-smoker who enjoys the occasional foray into tobacco, I remember with fondness my sampling of those great French unfiltered cigarettes, the Galois.
He even believes their fondness for each other profoundly affected the course of events.
Because of the family's tradition of taking the name of one's parent of the same gender, her brother was the only Preston among many Scotts, more Stuarts, a scatter of MacLaughlins, and one Ishimoto, a great-uncle Dannan remembered with great fondness. THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
And strange, but Alroy was relieved by having given way to his emotion, and, charmed with the fondness of the faithful horse, he leant down and took water, and threw it over its feet to cool them, and wiped the foam from its face, and washed it, and the horse again neighed. Chapter 1 - Part II
Where Sin, Sorrow, and Sufferings, of all Kinds, and from all Quarters, accost and attack her, and from which she is perpetually wishing to be delivered; and yet is loth to quit this her Earthly Mansion: Which Fondness for this transitory Life, and Fear to imbark for a Better in the Ocean of Eternity, must surely proceed from a Deficiency of Faith, and the Want of a firm Belief of Future Happiness. A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
Some examples follow below, from the quadrilingual Dutch work of the period, Moderne Kerken in Europe en America, which also includes some strange Central European and French monstrosities, not shown here -- though I admit a secret fondness for the etherial openness of Perret's Notre Dame du Raincy, just not all that exposed concrete. Some Examples of Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Church Architecture
Obama, like Ayers, has a fondness for the word murky and its aquatic usages. Deconstructing Obama
This is probably due to provincial Custom, and may be compared with the fondness shown in some parts of Scotland for words such as "boatie," "lassie" or "lassock," etc. The Books of the New Testament
In the mid-nineteenth century, the British fondness for shampooing crossed the English Channel to become the anglicized French phrase le shampooing, literally “the shampooing,” pronounced with a light n sound at the end of the word: le shahmpooahn. The English Is Coming!
Early in his life, James had developed a fondness for bull- and bearbaiting. The Pawprints of History
He was just as clever as Lyle, but as he grew older we found we had nothing in common but a fondness for cricket and rugger. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Ms. Jen has an enduring fondness for slangy American talk, and the diction and cadences in "World and Town" are those of the country's woodsier corners. Scenes From Provincial Life
Everyone that gets to know him has a great fondness and affinity with him. The Sun
Think again of height and weight: The two are related, but there are other variables - a fondness for exercise, a taste for chocolate crullers - that can determine how much you weigh.
We remember with fondness our unscheduled rest stop in Slidell, Louisiana.
They are vanity, an overfondness for authority and an exaggerated sense of their own dignity. Times, Sunday Times
During his next interview with his dulcinea, far from discovering the least sign of jealousy or discontent, he affected the appearance of extraordinary fondness, and, after having spent the afternoon with the show of uncommon satisfaction, told her he was engaged in a party for Fountainebleau, and would set out from Paris that same evening; so that he should not have the pleasure of seeing her again for some days. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
The word we want is not the legalistic "paedophilia", which in any case deceitfully translates as "fondness for children". The Guardian World News
And a fondness for watching daytime quiz shows. The Sun
I am a bit embarrassed to admit my unshakeable fondness for the royal family and I'm well aware that any further opinions from me may now be obsolete to some readers, but not remotely discomfited to say that I grieved for Princess Diana. Victoria Coren: why I shall be up at dawn to watch the royal family in all its bizarre glory
Despite their differences and occasional arguments, Washington had a great deal of fondness for the irascible old redcoat, who had shown him unusual warmth in return. George Washington’s First War
A Southern correspondent sends the following incident from real life, which illustrates the well-known negro fondness for so-called lugubrious festivals: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
She wept in the loneliness of the all-too-spacious bed, strove to forget Billy's incomprehensible cruelty, even pillowed her cheek with numb fondness against the bruise of her arm; but still resentment burned within her, a steady flame of protest against CHAPTER XIV
This she puts down to our fondness for school uniforms. Times, Sunday Times
With their fondness for hookahs and their liking for Indian dress - so much more sensible than their own stiff jackets and collars - they became a distinctive set.
Fear and envy of a successful elite well explain the universal fondness for myths of this type, although conservative piety and a deepfelt human need of religious mystery may also underlie them. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
She has a fondness for red wine.
Everyone that gets to know him has a great fondness and affinity with him. The Sun
And soon I'm sure I would feel fondness towards him, so it was not exactly feelingless.
A fondness for laddish banter bonds the odd couple. Times, Sunday Times
She has a fondness for rascally men, a distaste for bossy wives, and a sympathy for anyone who leads with the heart instead of the brain.
I have a fondness for the stories of the newsrooms of the past, filled with smoke, redolent with the smell of dirty paste pots, the sound of the bulletin bell on the wire service machines.
The film is so good at anti-glamour that it made me question my fondness for other movies about society's dregs.
But though, like Holmes, Hamlet is cleverer than everyone around him, his emotionalism and his fondness for poetic flights would unfit him as a private detective.
34 Their media guide—on page 272, no less—reads that “the term redskin... was inspired not by their natural complexion but by their fondness for vermillion makeup.” Bad Sports
Not until the beginning of the true puberal development did this fondness begin to wane. The Sexual Life of the Child
Even if one has no particular fondness for JET, he may have fondness for other institutions whose anointment derives from the same structure as JET's. Truth in Advertising: Does the Journal of Economic Theory Contain Economics or Theory?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A characteristic note of his scientific speculations is his fondness for considering social phenomena from a mathematical point of view, so that he was called the geometrician of economy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
He is suddenly, dodderer and ass, taken by an ache in his skin, a simple love for them both that asks nothing but their safety, and that he'll always manage to describe as something else - "concern," you know, "fondness .... Gravity's Rainbow
The threesome capitalised on the nation's growing fondness for healthier diets and have fed the bank balance of a company that would never have got off the ground if a gamble at a jazz festival had not paid off.
Smart, slick, suited women abound; there is plenty of statement jewellery and a fondness for glamour and glitz.
Not alone was he a perfectionist but he brought a great sense of devotion and fondness to his work.
This is the simplified world of a child's memories - although Joe is no naïve waif - and it is largely remembered with fondness.
It is, no doubt, the wont of every generation to look back at the past with an over-egged fondness and to be too damning of current standards.
The former almost certainly accounts for Steiner's fondness for the word misprision VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2
There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness. Times, Sunday Times
In his notorious (and unfunny) article, Hitchens suggests that funny women -- who are either "hefty or dykey or Jewish, or some combo of the three" -- are an anomaly partly because they don't have a fondness for filth. Debra Ollivier: Funny, Filthy, and Smart: Sandra Tsing Loh Meets Sarah Silverman
In the future, our descendants will look at the barbaric practice of caging animals in the same way that we look at our ancestors 'fondness for bear-baiting at mediaeval fairs. Archive 2009-11-01

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