Because they often resembled ancient artifacts, Riccio's works were also in sync with the fondness of Paduan intellectuals for collecting bits and pieces of the Classical past — coins, fragments of sculptures and functional objects.
They draw on the fondness in France for discussing books and all things intellectual; while the fiction best-seller lists include the latest Dan Brown novel, "Inferno," the top nonfiction book at the moment is "A Summer With Montaigne" by Antoine Compagnon.
Still, many of his themes recur: the proliferation and use of symbols in daily life; the intensity of feeling of Japaneseness, and the special role of the outsider (and the impossibility of assimilation) in helping affirm it; the fondness for adaptation of ideas and things imported; and the uses of kitsch.
Perhaps it was the holiday home in the Algarve, perhaps the fondness for Cuban cigars, but "gorgeous George" seems to get right up the nose of those who count themselves among his critics.
While I didn't get laid, I replayed the songs of the night over in my head with the fondness of recalling a great first date.
In order to avoid the fondness for special people, no celebrities such as movie stars or politicians were selected.
She watched with pride as he took jobs in a succession of local schools, she glowed in his reflected glory at the good reports he received, she took singular pleasure in the evident fondness that students and staff had for him, she happily traveled down to Mexico, on what was (since both were teachers) the pleasing respite of a school holiday for two.
The Kingdom matches the Islamic State in fondness for treating women as objects and beheading citizens.
When she moved to the United States and married a Mexican man in the 1990s, her fondness for cooking led the couple to open Taqueria La Michoacana in Norristown, Pa.
Bromwich recalls the games in the camp with fondness – "imagine doing the locomotion without the music, a train of children weaving in and out of the trees in the forest all singing".
