The phrase "a general fondness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a broad or overall liking for something or someone without going into specific details.
Example: "She has a general fondness for classical music, often attending concerts and listening to various composers."
Alternatives: "a broad affection" or "a general liking".
"And there are probably three million people who have a general fondness for birds".
But it is clear that Hank has both a general fondness for soldiers and a father's assumption that he knows his own son.
The Japanese band DMBQ, formed in the late 1980's, makes its roiling psychedelic rock out of garage-band riffs, power chords, stop-start beats, wailing vocals and a general fondness for mayhem.
Railtrack said, 'Fine, show us how,' but they got cold feet and never signed up". Despite Virgin Trains' initial reputation for lateness, there was a general fondness for the Railtrack-Virgin plan, not just in Railtrack, but among politicians, the media and the public.
Not because I'm fervently patriotic but because I come from a family of passionate football fans; combined with my love of music and my general fondness for anything a bit sentimental, that seems to have made my penchant for a good anthem inevitable.
But country-radio executives will once again have to make a complicated calculation, weighing their audience's general fondness for Taylor Swift against its desire to hear an uninterrupted stream of songs that sound, more or less, like country music.
The assembling of electronic equipment on public transport, combined with the resultant flashing lights and my general aesthetic, has caused the occasional commuter to flash me a look of what is quite clearly brief reflexive panic, at which point I have to try not to laugh and instead give them a reassuring look and attempt to blink my general fondness for the west in morse code.
The five attributes are respect, trustworthiness, understanding of the other's needs, openness to future negotiations, and general fondness.
At fault are Iggy's past (and since-deleted) tweets about gay people and what the protestors perceive to be her general fondness of cultural appropriation.
Just as they disliked the Bush Republicans' incompetence, bellicosity and inability to say anything coherent about the country's most pressing problems, they now dislike the Obama Democrats' stimulus plans that don't stimulate, massive expenditures of money the federal government doesn't have and general fondness for the sound of the president's voice.
All that noodling around seems to have worked: as of January, Digg's userbase had doubled since it had been taken over by betaworks, so the general fondness for accepting and building off of users' responses is understandable.
