The phrase "a certain love for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a specific or particular affection or fondness for something or someone.
Example: "She has a certain love for classical music that she developed during her childhood."
Alternatives: "a particular affection for" or "a distinct fondness for".
"It takes a certain love and respect for your children to be able to teach them things like that," she said.
As someone with a certain fetishistic love for all things doughy and stuffed, I believe I have the answer: it is all about surprise, contrast and delayed gratification.
Granted that every human soul may be worthy of 1,056 pages, why should a cold murderer with a certain capacity for love and poetry be deemed worthier of such expensive celebration than the harmless grocer of Gissing's New Grub Street?
Here's a few examples of the types of songs you would write to a certain person: Love songs would be suitable for: Boyfriend Girlfriend Crush Possibly a relative (in this case, the love song might be about your sibling/parent/child(ren), or it could be a song about something/someone the relative loves).. Funny songs would be suitable for: Child Friend Relative Teacher.
He has dead bats, used in certain love charms, and ground-up rattlesnake, for curing illnesses.
The sparkling Broadway revival of "The Real Thing," Tom Stoppard's keen-witted tale of a playwright in love, makes the case that certain things (love, for example) defy articulation.
"I wanted to reclaim the narrative that my body needed to look a certain way for me to love it, and to show people who have stretch marks, extra skin and love handles that they should feel confident". .
All my life, I've had a certain fascination for how they loved and lived.
You can't be in aviation if you don't have a certain appetite for risk and a love of competition.
