Sentence examples for fondness for making from inspiring English sources

"You see how interesting everything here is?" Manuel Matos, a lanky, wide-eyed worker with a striking fondness for making asphalt, said early one recent weekday morning.

I was seduced by the rugged Jimenez, with his fondness for red wine and cigars, ahead of Poulter, with his fondness for making birdies.

In the few scraps of Kaufman we have left, the same motifs recur: the unpleasant character of a lounge singer called Tony Clifton; his "foreign man" character, who speaks and sings in an entirely made-up language; his love of wrestling, American kitsch and light entertainment generally; his fondness for making whatever he did appear to go terribly wrong.

He has always been drawn to powerful intellects, in part because they offer an adequate match to his own powers, and also in part because their existence sanctions his own will-to-theory, his fondness for making use of speculation and scholarship in his fiction.

Despite his fondness for making jokes about his girth ("I'm gaining weight for a role — 'The Zach Galifianakis Story' "), Galifianakis, 39 years old and 5-foot-8, makes a curiously delicate impression in person: small, precise hands, clear blue eyes and a face that can radiate wholesomeness, perversity or demonic glee in equal measure.

The writer Jorge Mañach has already lamented, decades ago, that Cuban fondness for joking, for making fun of everything... that, nevertheless, resulted in the darkest hours of despair before the paternal totalitarianism of the revolution calcified into static dogma.

Legend describes him as seven feet tall, with immense eyes and ears, and a fondness for clothes made of leaves.

But America's strong shareholder culture and fondness for litigation make it harder than it would be in Europe for managers to employ these devices.

His lofty air and fondness for intellectualising made him popular among his coterie of political comrades, but his style did not go down well with the wider population.

Basil is the shrewdest and the most worldly, and Geoffrey Rush, with his baritonal amplitude and fondness for pomp, makes him a vain, hollow man, grasping at something that he knows has eluded him his entire life.

Warne came to cricket relatively late in his teenage years, and his relaxed manner, bleached hair, stud earring, and fondness for surfing made him a folk hero among young cricket fans around the world.