For all his trademark excess and fondness for machinery over people, Bay is a gifted film-maker driven to excite us, and he has found a degree of sobriety here, even if he never lets up.
That movie and his 2006 comic horror movie, "Slither," have a facetious, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may attitude and fondness for excess; the more splatter is better.
Although she demonstrated a fondness for excess and magic, her stories remained firmly grounded in the insistent claims of the body — and in the recent history of her native country, Cuba.
With his outsized girth and fondness for controlled beverages, Ruth epitomized the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, and like every baseball player then and now, his contract demands were deemed greedy and exorbitant.
Notwithstanding their own fondness for free alcohol, America's upstanding journalists have already made up their minds: this is the best evidence yet of "corporate excess".
That fondness shines through.
"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".
There was fondness in it.
It did not indicate fondness.
