Sentence examples for shared fondness of from inspiring English sources

At one point, Mr. O'Neill gave a lei to Mr. Parsons, in recognition of their shared fondness of Hawaii: Mr. Parsons attended a university there and Mr. O'Neill was chairman and chief executive of the Bank of Hawaii.

With Mr. Boehner about to become the speaker of the House, the nation's two most powerful leaders open this new era with little connection other than a shared fondness for golf and a weakness for cigarettes.

In October President Xi Jinping said the arts should "embody socialist core values" (it is safe to assume that he does not share the fondness of his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, for Napalm Death, a British heavy-metal band).

Later in his career he became a mentor to a new generation of musicians who shared his fondness for older jazz, among them the saxophonist Scott Hamilton and the guitarist Howard Alden.

She seriously considered pursuing her doctorate in chemistry, and has shared her fondness for this topic by teaching a number of university chemistry and biochemistry courses.

These groups took pride in playing well and shared a fondness for expensive equipment and the distorted guitar sounds of eighties metal bands like Metallica and Slayer.

Our fathers were both professors of political science, and, starting in the mid-eighties, we both attended Ivy League colleges in the Northeast, where we shared a fondness for illegal drugs.

He also bore a passing resemblance to Sherlock Holmes, who shared his fondness for injecting cocaine.

Inside the funeral home, she shared her fondness for Dr. Faughey with Mr. Adam.

He maintained a long friendship with Julia Child, with whom he shared a fondness for martinis and McDonald's French fries.

The Hollywood actor and one of Britain's greatest painters may not have much in common but it has emerged that they shared a fondness for Auguste Rodin's most audacious and sexually explicit sculpture.