At the same time, Bellow and his intellectuals -- the demographics of his fiction skew heavily toward the Mensa crowd -- display a fondness for slang, talking out of the sides of their mouths like touts at the racetrack.
There are regional quirks throughout the country western Kentucky prefers mutton to beef or pork, South Carolina's sauce is mustard-based while northern Alabama's is an abomination based on mayonnaise, and Chicagoans display a fondness for rib tips (unwieldy, delicious bits of meat, bone and cartilage).
Ms. Rich quickly displayed a fondness for sequins and certain direct charm.
This wasn't the first time that Lohan has displayed a fondness for tyrannical, intimidating men and their questionable politics.
But the choreographer also displayed a fondness, if not a reverence, for performers who had come before him, many of them female.
Reinvigorated public investment in education and infrastructure would revitalise manufacturing, boost middle-class incomes and meet the competitive challenge from China.Once in office, Mr Obama devoted himself to that agenda, in the process displaying a fondness for industrial policy.
It was comfort for the present but mostly for the future that Ben Stokes, the 22-year-old Durham firebrand, took 6 for 99, again displaying his fondness for the fray and his reluctance to call it a day.
To amplify the claustrophobia that comes with meeting a roomful of someone else's relatives, he sometimes shot with a handheld camera, and displayed a fondness for aping Hitchcock's "Psycho" strings.
The Dutch team also displayed a fondness for attacking via Celtic's right side, which offered both a nod to Mikael Lustig's perceived vulnerability and a respect to the hosts' teenage left-back, Kieran Tierney.
He uses words like "favouritest", shows unbridled enthusiasm for simple pleasures, displays improbable fondness for largely silent old people and is, generally speaking, an inexhaustible source of goodness in a dark and uncaring world.
Like many other 20th-century composers, Sorabji displays a fondness for tritone and semitone relationships.
