Sentence examples for at a fondness from inspiring English sources

The inauguration will give Willem-Alexander the opportunity to shake off a less regal image born of his student days, when his nickname, Prince Pils, hinted at a fondness for pilsner beer.

He champions Othello and Chimes at Midnight, a fondness that might surprise readers of The Road to Xanadu.

How daring and fantastical I was at twenty-three!" A fondness for conspicuous costume and the dangers of indigence often go hand in hand.

Nevertheless, he had been allowed to take courses in rhetoric and philosophy at Ephesus and later at Athens; he developed a fondness for Hellenic literature, and he secretly apostatized around 351.

She did, at one point, declare a fondness for the "inventive" Harry Potter books.

When he is at Harvard, he shows a fondness for the classroom unusual for his rank.

At Sewanee he developed a fondness for English literature.

In such macabre moments, Wright hints at a promising fondness for fiendish, Roald Dahl-style humour, as well as a taste for Terry Gilliam's vivid and extravagant fantasy odysseys.

Warner, now teaching part-time at Birkbeck College in London, retains a fondness for Essex.

Aren't his theories at least partly driven by a fondness for heresy?

And in "Pregnant & Dating," a new series at 10, five women with a fondness for highlighting their baby bumps with various permutations of spandex search for Mr. Right as their pregnancies progress.