The phrase an intense feeling of deep affection is qualified by the definition for affection as a gentle feeling of fondness or liking so we aren't sure if we should be intense or gentle.
Tamasha is a movie about a boy with a passion, with a fondness and a liking... more like a love, actually.
We've got other words of course, such as liking, fondness, affection, endearment, devotion, hankering and partiality, but none of these really resonates.
Despite the seventy-eight-year-old director's Charles-like fondness for young flesh, the older people seem to attract him more; age has made them not wiser but more civilized and therefore, from his point of view, more corrupt.
If anything, the older people seem to attract Chabrol more, despite his Charles-like fondness for young flesh; age has made them not wiser but more civilized and therefore, from his point of view, more corrupt.
I've always carried with me the memory of what may have been the first index I really noticed: that for Richard Ollard's biography of the splenetic and self-important academic AL Rowse, which under the author's name included "censorious and resentment", "sense of rejection", "solipsism", "vindictiveness", "egotism", "fondness for money", "liking for celebrities" and so on.
We trained together regularly and developed almost sibling-like fondness and animosity for each other pretty much immediately.
While television's torture freak, Jack Bauer, tormented a suspect inside the White House this week, the real-life White House was again spotlighiting the last administration's Bauer-like fondness for "enhanced interrogations".
It's a plausible outcome that matches some of our stereotypes about liberal values: an aversion to human suffering, an unwillingness to rationalize capital punishment and military force, a fondness for candidates who like to feel our pain.
