I met Anna, who had better coke than Phil and soon developed a fondness for me.
He was on my shows a whole lot of times, we saw each other offstage and on, and the champ appeared to have a real fondness for me.
Hardy, in particular, he always mentioned with an almost intimate fondness, showing me one day that he had "TH's birthday" written on the appropriate page of his pocket diary (the second of June).
"It's almost as if the Republicans in Congress have discovered a new fondness for me," Holder joked.
My parents had never been quiet about their fondness for Johnnie Walker, around me, around anyone.
Michael spoke to me with fondness about Blunt as man and teacher, and with deep respect for his love of painting and calibre as an art historian.
But I take some comfort in the fact that Table Moves, which I remember with great fondness, also appeared to me, at first, to be intolerable.
Those experiences and my fondness for Australia convinced me to return there despite being warned that organisations would look more favourably upon a native Australian scientist's application than mine.
They were the first books I read that others had not either read or recommended to me, and they left me with a permanent fondness for fairy stories, and with something else, something that has been of practical use to me as well as perennial fascination.
My instinctive fondness for outsiders has led me, over the years, to seek inroads with Purdy's oeuvre.
