But, perhaps more than anything else, the fondness that Mainers have felt toward L. L. Bean has owed to the company's famous no-questions-asked return policy, whereby any product was essentially guaranteed for life and no reasonable return would be refused.
They also have a fondness for ethnic warfare that inches toward genocide and long to establish an Islamic caliphate which naturally inspires hatred and fear all over the world.
It's impossible to tell whether cosmological lyrics pushed the band toward psychedelia or whether Islands' fondness for 1960's sounds led it to latter-day hippie visions.
A sharp, sometimes brutal businessman, he shows an odd mixture of guile and helplessness, his need for control weakened by sexual jealousy, a fondness for vodka and a disarming tendency toward self-pity.
According to historian Thierry Bianquis, he was described by medieval chroniclers as "a choleric and gluttonous man, yet shrewd and inclined toward avarice", but with a fondness for luxuries imported from the east, and especially perfumes.
Chances are that your interest in late-career Jay-Z hinges not only on your fondness for the rap legend but your attitude toward wealth.
Her father's fondness for Tom Clancy novels went a long way toward convincing her parents that a military man might make a good son-in-law.
There is a lot of dirty talk in "Easier With Practice," an intimate drama about a fledgling author with a sensitive soul, a fondness for romance novels and an imagination that skews toward the raw.
At the same time, Bellow and his intellectuals -- the demographics of his fiction skew heavily toward the Mensa crowd -- display a fondness for slang, talking out of the sides of their mouths like touts at the racetrack.
