Sentence examples for human fondness from inspiring English sources

In addition, the "biophilia hypothesis" (Wilson [1984]) provides an evolutionary explanation for the human fondness for other animals and plants.

But Green's unpretentious fondness for human quirks promises something richer and stranger than the usual boy meets girl.

Combining a razor-sharp precision in dissecting the darker recesses of the human psyche with a fondness for blood and gore, Cronenberg could probably wield a mean scalpel.

NOON (MoreMax) CAPE FEAR (1991) In this Martin Scorsese remake of the 1962 thriller that was originally directed by J. Lee Thompson and starred Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, Robert De Niro portrays Max Cady, a paroled psycho with a fondness for human flesh, out for vengeance against the Southern lawyer who defended him.

The UK government again shows its fondness for a commission on human rights.

A few patterns have been noted: many of the attacks originated on computers located in China and the spymasters seemed to have a fondness for the Indian Defense Ministry, Tibetan human rights advocates, the Dalai Lama and foreign journalists who cover China and Taiwan.

Rezzori, who is best known for his 1979 novel "Memoirs of an Anti-Semite," shares Cervantes's fondness for the pageant of human frailty, and pride is at the head of the procession.

On the second level -- the scientific level, where fire is explained, and where (given Hanson's fondness for the macabre) a human body's reaction to flame is offered in loving detail -- the book works very well indeed.

Bella: You have a lot to say in Sex at Dawn about humans as highly sexual creatures with a fondness for a variety of sexual experiences and partners.

Sure, there's an attempt to develop the human characters, but they mostly rely on auds' fondness for Wahlberg to do the heavy lifting there.

She's got a fondness for drawing curious little half-human half-gnomes and things that look like one-eyed talking raviolis, and she's gone and unleashed them on the canon of Western literature.