It's interesting to me that I've had so many TV and movie children and felt fondness and protectiveness and love for them, but I can't imagine what it would really be like to do the day-to-day of being a mother.
And yes, there was smidgen of regret for the life of Floyd, the hopeless alcoholic, a species for which many of us feel neither fondness nor warmth.
Followers of the sport feel a fondness for these plodders that is often out of all proportion to their ability.
But "Paris 36" works so hard to charm you that you may be tempted to like it out of pity, which in the course of two long hours can start to feel like fondness.
Oddly, I started to feel my fondness for Barbie return, now not as a plaything but as a tool to reveal the negative body image that she promotes.
A head butt from Belle signifies affection; she clearly felt a fondness for our photographer.
I realized I actually felt a fondness for this bizarre place where even the cabdrivers are political.
He felt such fondness for Cuba that he donated the medal from his 1954 Nobel Prize to the shrine of Virgen de Cobre, the country's patron saint.
In that moment in the living room, I felt such fondness for Clark, such wonder at the passage of time, such gratitude for the many large and small ways we surprise ourselves and each other.
Beyond her wish to get her license back, she feels no fondness for the person sitting across the table, but the structure of his life, the path that brought him from birth to this moment, is interesting in the way that anyone's is.
