Sentence examples for a fond but from inspiring English sources

A fond but hapless father.

A minute later, they sang a fond but bitter duet about their shared youth — baseball games, frat parties.

She stands a little back with a fond but slightly strained expression, not unlike a mother of several unruly children.

Now and then a more distinctive song escaped the contemporary pop conventions — like "Just Be," a fond but unsparing waltz about long-term love: "Watch all the little things that once drew me to you/Eventually get on my nerves".

The Japanese band Buffalo Daughter's "303 + 606 = Acid" is a fond but dull tribute to the exuberantly wriggling acid house bass lines that propelled a thousand late-80's raves.

"Manuelzhino," for example, is a fond but exasperated complaint, in a landowner's voice, about an inept gardener—"half squatter, half tenant (no rent)"—who genially fails at every assigned task.

For them, rockabilly was not just a fond memory but a continuing insurrection.

"That was a fond wish, but I think I'm a bit of a realist".

"He had never used the words 'wellies' or 'umbrella' before," Lombard says with a fond smile, "but now they're his favourite words!

Aston said: "The 2013 World Cup is still a fond memory but we are already looking forward to the next one in 2017.

22 Nov-21 Dec Escape from the weekly grind may seem a fond delusion, but your horoscope is keen to slip the leash, even if it requires three weeks of planning.