Sentence examples for like fondness from inspiring English sources

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But "Paris 36" works so hard to charm you that you may be tempted to like it out of pity, which in the course of two long hours can start to feel like fondness.

Phrases like "fondness for bathing-machines" and "brimming over with quivering curds" are sure to nurture a love of language and its possibilities, and Singh's daring illustrations will appeal to older children eager to leave the world of candy-colored cuteness behind.

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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.

We've got other words of course, such as liking, fondness, affection, endearment, devotion, hankering and partiality, but none of these really resonates.

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 was simply regarded as a curiosity," he writes, "like a fondness for yoga".

Lincoln's love of Shakespeare is familiar, but is usually treated as a delightful character trait, like his fondness for ice cream or the comedy of Artemus Ward.

His anti-corruption crackdown is in full swing and, like his fondness for folksy language and popular themes, appears to have played well with the Chinese public.

Indeed, our appetite for petroleum, like our fondness of fast foods, has spawned a kind of obesity epidemic, but one without conspicuous symptoms like high blood pressure and diabetes.

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