Sentence examples for a certain fondness from inspiring English sources

And there is still a certain fondness here for anything set in Milwaukee.

This led to a certain fondness for third parties the Equal Rights Party, the Prohibition Party, the Home Protection Party.

While she still has a certain fondness for Morgan Stanley, Ms. Schieffelin acknowledged that her outlook had changed.

Because of its ring shape, she said, the bagel is attractive and tactile; it elicits a certain fondness.

It's not surprising, perhaps, that those who spend their lives obsessing over what two men do in the bedroom may have a certain fondness for the male form.

Somewhat intimidated, a young man at the bar confessed to a certain fondness for the Mets - nothing passionate, but a real admiration.

Yosef Ben-Aharon, a top assistant to Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, remembers his boyhood in Egypt with a certain fondness--a curious sentiment perhaps for someone considered a hard-liner on relations with the Arab world.

Years later you might feel slightly sentimental about this and remember the duty with a certain nostalgic fondness.

As he patted Boss Tweed's fire engine -- volunteer fire companies were an early power base -- he seemed to have a certain revisionist fondness for the old rascal.

Although Mr. Nash's acquaintances reserve a certain wry fondness for him in their filmed reminiscences, they are blunt about his early arrogance.

In these sterner and more restrictive times of Xi Jinping, many Chinese, including those not really old enough to remember, are now looking back with a certain nostalgic fondness on the Jiang Zemin era.