There, he had acquired "a fondness for the English landscape and for the ever-changing English light," he wrote in his coyly titled but amusingly upfront autobiography, "Reflections in a Silver Spoon" (Morrow, 1992).
He wrote home, "I have acquired a morbid fondness for action.
During his stay in England, he acquired a great fondness and knowledge of the English language, literature and culture.
Indeed, after hours in the company of these mostly gregarious, mostly struggling makers of a product they are willing to pour so generously and sell so cheaply, I find that I too am acquiring a decidedly French fondness for the underdog.
Over the years, our memories of Zaka's many irritations had softened and acquired the out-of-focus fondness of remembrance.
The prodigious Dutch connoisseur Lugt (1884-1970), a collector by the age of eight, acquired thousands of Old Master drawings, with a special fondness for the French eighteenth century.
Develop a fondness for Russian and Ukrainian cuisine.
For his pains McDonagh acquires a promotion and a drug habit, which combines with his gambling addiction and his fondness for the company of Frankie (Ms. Mendes) to make him a ripe target for an internal-affairs investigation.
I closed "Gay Berlin" with a deepened fondness for Hirschfeld, that prolix and imprecise thinker who liked to pose in a white lab coat and acquired the nickname Aunt Magnesia.
His educated fondness for the florid, and for the tumble that it takes when it bumps into slang, was there from his earliest stage plays, but onscreen it acquired a newly minted strangeness, as if there were secret rituals going on that the audience could only guess at.
