(The key variable behind the Beatles' fondness for the twenties was the man they were pleasing and teasing: their great producer and arranger, George Martin, born in 1926).
The Radio Dept. is from Sweden, and it shares — with bands like Junip, Kings of Convenience and Peter Bjorn and John — the Scandinavian fondness for restrained, neatly made pop.
It once was an article of faith among the French to sneer at the American fondness for rubber soles and our, it must be said, unfortunate taste for wearing athletic shoes with street clothes.
Any mention of the city's last mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, drew strong reaction, but columns about his successor, Michael R. Bloomberg, went by as if they had never appeared, with one exception -- excoriation of the Bloomberg fondness for nonpartisan elections from partisan Democrats.
"It is just part of the Swiss identity," federal transport office director Peter Fueglistaler told Reuters of the Swiss fondness for major engineering feats.
He champions Othello and Chimes at Midnight, a fondness that might surprise readers of The Road to Xanadu.
Not all the women who buy into lululemon's self-improvement creed have Rand's fondness for the Übermensch.More embarrassing were quality control problems.
Leaving aside Unconditionally, the ungainly, adverbial power ballad in which Perry's fondness for musician John Mayer might be writ large, these are a hoot.
Indeed, the DSM's fondness for the categorisation of mental illness is a major reason for its unpopularity in many quarters.
The bank is a behemoth, and if it were ever necessary to unwind it, I think we have to assume it would be something of a disaster, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's fondness for its new orderly liquidation authority notwithstanding.
GUANXI, a Chinese word which loosely means "connections", has made an inglorious entry into the American political lexicon, thanks to the Democratic Party's fondness for raising money from Chinese business people.
