Sentence examples for excessive fondness from inspiring English sources

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I particularly disliked the author's excessive fondness for superficial analogies to make his points.

At that moment, Hernandez's chief sins were assumed to be an excessive fondness for strip clubs and cannabis.

The Vail Morphoses program, however, shows his excessive fondness for intense male-female partnering in general and lifts in particular.

In 1749, the French philosopher La Mettrie attributed the contempt that Englishmen displayed for other nations to an excessive fondness for rare steaks.

As a result, some of his successors are critical of his searching literalism and deviation from traditional Midrashic exegesis, while others find his excessive fondness for nonliteral homilies uncongenial.

He would always tower above his contemporaries — he was over six feet tall — but he had lost the striking Apollonian beauty of his youth to the Nubian desert sun; to a sedentary life; to his venereal souvenirs from the dives of Esneh; to an excessive fondness for his pipe; and to the periodic attacks of epilepsy that, with syphilis, probably killed him.

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"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".

An inordinate fondness for beetles.

C. elegans has an inordinate fondness for 7TM G-protein coupled receptors (G-protein coupled

We might think of this bias as a form of dendrophilia an inordinate fondness for tree structures in our species.

Rubin is not to everyone's taste as a producer – there are issues with his fondness for excessive compression and loudness – but he's perfect for Bugg.

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