Sentence examples for of a fondness from inspiring English sources

For critics the conference was yet more evidence of a fondness for quotas, targets and five-year plans.

In spite of a fondness for taxonomy within the literature of the profession, no universally accepted list of illusions defines the conjurer's art.

Because of a fondness for composers like Cole Porter and Vernon Duke, Mr. Short isn't usually thought of as a soul or blues singer.

"As there are more and more Internet successes here in New York, I would expect these people to have more of a fondness for and interest in collecting art, because it's New York," Mr. Koyfman said.

This was done not out of a fondness for the artificial, but to prevent the steep topography from dissolving into the bays hundreds of feet below during heavy rains.

He said he had created his Web site "out of a fondness for my readers," noting that he had many young readers who often sent e-mail to him.

Pole, a k a Stefan Betke, brings the cerebral disposition of minimal techno to a fondness for Jamaican dub reggae.

But of course – a fondness for the work of Alan Ayckbourn goes hand in hand with a desire to see a mob of baying "patriots" appear at your door.

Neoclassicism, however, usually connotes narrower attitudes that are at once literary and social: a worldly-wise tempering of enthusiasm, a fondness for proved ways, a gentlemanly sense of propriety and balance.

They talk about their shared Southern roots until Mrs. Hill accuses him of having a fondness for young girls, which he denies.

Then almost immediately Socrates is speaking of cultivating a fondness for beauty among the young guardians.