Liberal Democrats watched Mr Clegg with a sort of wary fondness.
Incidentally, Fox Pictures is relying on this sort of naive fondness for its new movie, which Smith is not in.
"I would never have claimed any part in his career, but since it sort of became a thing, you know, you develop a funny kind of fondness for a person..
Listen, I'm like you: I thought that vloggers were a phase, like Tazos or the AIDS crisis, that it would pass and we would forget about them and look back on them in a decade with a sort of detached nostalgic fondness, a sort of, 'Heh: what were we thinking?' type deal.
It was the sort of punch that your fondness for soaking pretty girls in cheap alcohol has lead you to absorb many times.
Mr. Kerry's fondness for "sort of" may contribute to the perception that he's reluctant to commit himself or fearful of being held to his exact words.
Underlining this easy evil is Simenon's fondness for a sort of pat irony, like something out of Maupassant.
It shows in his fondness for the sort of jaunty irreverence that Latin teachers, faced with students who snicker at Roman solemnity, develop as a defensive measure.
Morris has a good time weaving his tale of vice and squalor in 1860s Russia, and your appreciation of his handiwork will depend on your fondness for the sort of ventriloquized fiction in which a writer dons the voice and manners of another culture, another century.
A ghost of fondness lived in a headlock's shadow.
