Sentence examples for of the fondness from inspiring English sources

He has none of the fondness for Congo that he once had for India.

Local politicians have shown none of the fondness for red tape that has stymied investment in other eastern regions, such as Berlin, and much of the west.

His stories of cruel kings, enchanted animals and paupers-turned-princes are still a staple bedtime read for most Romanian and Hungarian children, and a bronze statue of the author now stands in the village's main square – a sign of the fondness with which the author is remembered, not just in Transylvania, but across much of Eastern Europe.

Tambor was perhaps even more convinced by Hanks' and Graynor's because of the fondness he grew for the pair as they filmed together.

Mr. Schwartz said it had fallen victim to the fondness of Babe Paley, wife of Bill Paley, founder of CBS, for the show "Gunsmoke".

There is, not coincidentally, a Japanese word, rorikon, a loose transliteration of "Lolita complex," referring to the fondness among Japanese men for little girls).

Of course, the fondness for watered-down classicism also brought us the Federal Triangle, an urbane collection of government buildings, erected in the nineteen-thirties, which knitted together several blocks of downtown Washington and gave it dignity.

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 1587), was also fond of small toy dogs, including spaniels, showing the fondness of the British royalty for these types of dogs before Charles II.

But you can see why we feel protective about our quality of life; and the fondness is so much more appealing than supposedly northern chip-and-whine.

You won't find it described in dictionaries of literary terms (despite the fondness for running gags of highly literary novelists such as Sterne and Nabokov).

I was under no illusion that would happen: the mutual fondness seemed authentic, but it was the fondness of accidental acquaintance, not of lasting friendship.