Despite his desire to see the sport legalized in New York, enabling competitors to be paid and requiring on-site medical care, Mr. Genia shows a fondness for the camaraderie that exists among underground fighters.
In one corner were those who insisted that Rice's departure was only right, given her disgraceful fondness for microphones and modern lighting in a building that only exists at all in order to give audiences a taste of Shakespeare as it would have been staged in his own time.
My younger sister Hannah would have to scurry up and patiently guide me down, and remembering this – knowing the strained, slightly sad gulf that exists between us now as adults – is the moment in the day where I feel the most intense fondness for the place I used to call home.
Even though the beast notionally belonged to a queen, it also, we cannot help but feel, exists for its own sake in a free-floating Otherwhere, wafted in on board some ship, and could therefore be appraised with a kind of guiltless fondness.
The few photographs that do exist show him to be a man with a wide smile and a fondness for double-breasted suits, a handkerchief folded neatly in the breast pocket.
"Lines for us are like a spouse from time immemorial whom we cannot stand, but without whom we cannot exist," said Jorge Sayegh, a columnist for the newspaper El Universal who wrote this year about Venezuelans' acceptance of, even fondness, for lines.
And I didn't consider Lucas's muffing of the second trilogy traumatic, unlike some; I only felt, as must have anyone with a fondness for blockbusters, that the new work was complacent, badly cast, and wasteful of the enormous audience goodwill that existed at the time of its release.
Some start-ups can exist in the more sober funding climate only thanks to cheap foreign programmers.Healthy scepticismWhile technology investing is becoming fashionable again, VCs never lost their fondness for health-care start-ups.
O'Neill would certainly be a popular choice with the fans, who have repeatedly cited his boyhood fondness for the club as a major factor in attracting him to Wearside, and he has topped the betting at some point whenever a vacancy has existed in recent years.
It's his fondness for "odd characters," for wines wrongly disregarded elsewhere but thankfully found here, for the kind of conversations launched by a first sip of something you didn't know existed just a minute ago.
He will be remembered by all with fondness and affection.
