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Sentence Examples Sanjay's tryst with the world of music began during his school and college days, and grew out of his fondness for dancing and dance music. Vera and her husband Martin had a great fondness for the showbands and the music scene. Jane had a special fondness for gardening and was always at peace and content in her garden which she tended with such fond care. Millar didn't care much for sentiment, but he remembered Bilsland with some fondness. She took a keen interest in flowers and plants, tending them with great care and fondness. But to his critics his fondness for the marchioness of Londonderry looked like social climbing and a desire for acceptance by the establishment. Then again, this Oxford-educated public schoolboy is the heir to a baronetcy, which could explain his fondness for formal attire. He's wonderfully memorable and skilful of course and I have a high regard for him but no real fondness, if you see what I mean. This is the week to indulge in your fondness for sports and pleasures, but beware of scandals. He had a great fondness for horse racing and bred race horses which were his pride and joy. Anyone who remembers with fondness the strike ridden 70's and early 80's must think they've stepped through a time warp. She recovered well and then herself and meself played a good lot of dates in pubs around the area and the people had a great fondness for her. She was devoted to her family and had a great fondness for the traditions and customs which were part of her upbringing. Nor should there be any doubt that our society's fondness for binge drinking is related to the spreading epidemic of extreme casual violence. I'm starting to develop a new fondness for my poor, unloved, rejected rejects. An excessive interest in high academic achievement or a fondness for art or music are viewed by many young men as unmasculine. She has a certain fondness for Xavier, born of his apparent helplessness in the face of getting by. The tree is typically Carioca in its brashness and audacity, but despite the city's fondness for it, Rio is not famed for its yuletide. Music was dear to her heart and Delia had a fondness for Irish music and the old songs and ballads. Their brightly green patinated court building and library sport a peculiar fondness of decorative symbolism. Show More Sentences She recalls winning a race in Galway on a New Year's Eve at midnight with particular fondness. Another legacy of the nobility to filter down to the streets is a fondness for witchcraft and sorcery. But in spite of my fondness for Norway I have never become a Norwegian citizen. She was a good hand at the baking, something which she retained a fondness for up to the last year of her life. Smoking is the most important cause, though a fondness for salt is another disturbing trend that irritates the stomach. So are strikes carried out by illegal-immigrant operatives with a fondness for strip joints living in the United States. I think she had some special fondness for the Lake District and loved the outdoors. He had a great fondness for sport and was a strong supporter of the Galway hurling and football teams. There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness. He had a great respect and fondness for animals and could not understand how anyone could ill-treat them. There is a fondness for its indigents in Wellington I have never seen in any other community. And soon I'm sure I would feel fondness towards him, so it was not exactly feelingless. For her part, she remembers with particular fondness a concert performance earlier this year before 10,000 people in the glitzy Hollywood Bowl. His fondness for the firewater cost him a seven-day jail sentence earlier this month following a second drink-driving offence. He was an accomplished fiddle player and retained a fondness for music all his life. Then along came Livingstone, a man whose fondness for lizards no doubt helped him strike an instant rapport with the beleaguered first minister. He was merely iterating his fondness for Thurmond and for the old South, and expressing his cherished wish to preserve it. I have an eclectic taste in music, but with a particular fondness for jazz and folk rock. He even believes their fondness for each other profoundly affected the course of events. But she was not too upset, for she knew it was a gesture of fondness and respect for Hector Quintero. Show More Sentences Not alone was he a perfectionist but he brought a great sense of devotion and fondness to his work. She loved the old songs and traditional music and retained a fondness for them to the end. Although indicative of his fondness for frippery, the quip also points to his lack of political insight. For all the fondness we had for each other, it had never been that kind of friendship. Traditionally, the reasons for places like Ireland were backward economically were put down to indolence, laziness and a fondness for the gargle. The family cat had a fondness for wool and often chewed holes in things that had been left on the floor, so the darning egg saw a lot of use. Some clowns prefer to wear bright and gaudy makeup, while others have a fondness for ludicrous masks. Although suspicious of unknown admirers, Tennyson was a sociable man, with a fondness for declaiming his work to a respectful audience. I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions. In one interview, he recalled with fondness his pub-crawling days in London before he gave up the drink. He spoke with such fondness of the tuna melt, that despite my disdain for tinned tuna, I felt compelled to try one. You can see that his fondness for modulation by thirds and enharmonic shifts comes from French composers. Before breaking into the title track from Essence, Williams invited Louris, for whom Williams has an obvious fondness, to duet with her. Their minds are debased and evirated by effeminacy, lasciviousness, and fondness for loose pleasures. Apart from our penchant for ritual, in matters of corruption it is our fondness of explaining and excusing the crime that is most visible. The film is so good at anti-glamour that it made me question my fondness for other movies about society's dregs. Topophilia, that fondness for a particular place or homeland, runs rampant among those whose departure is forced. It's not the greatest film, but I have a lot of fondness for it and its quotability can't be denied. I have a fondness for little old guys like these fellows and often try to find a way to strike up a conversation. I retain a certain fondness for him that is admittedly entirely unwarranted. Show More Sentences A man with a great fondness for the outdoor life, he loved to ramble in the countryside and experience the peace and quiet of the land. An acute political awareness and a fondness for '50s comic strips inform his odd blend of malevolence and whimsy. As if historical fact weren't enough, Jones also shows a fondness for, and in fact a deft hand with, fanciful flights of whimsy. She has a fondness for rascally men, a distaste for bossy wives, and a sympathy for anyone who leads with the heart instead of the brain. He remembers his time there with real fondness and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It's a fondness I can't reconcile with any feminist leanings I might have, so I've learned to embrace it as a guilty pleasure. The Romans had a special fondness for mineral spas, visiting them for medicinal and recreational purposes. It is, no doubt, the wont of every generation to look back at the past with an over-egged fondness and to be too damning of current standards. The press has done a public service exposing this government's fondness for spin, rich businessmen and fat donation cheques. Tall and outgoing, he comes with curly hair, a fondness for motorcycles, and a no-frills, all-American manner, a quality you see in his dancing. But there's more to this attachment than a simple fondness for gossip or a good yarn. Lu considers Honolulu his hometown and has a great fondness for Hawaiian aloha shirts. He remembered with fondness the beautiful Cherry trees, which are still in the gardens. His early fondness for working with horses led on to his interest in showjumping. Interestingly, Stevenson's fondness for retrospection does not seem to have blinded him but rather to have sharpened his sensitivity to seeing. Homer and Barney were obvious targets for their liking of beer but the children were also singled out for their fondness of sugary drinks. It turns out that he has a particular fondness for penguins, and has taken it upon himself to create a rookery for them. Rev Ashworth has spent the past 22 years at St Margaret's, in St Margaret's Road, a time which he looks back on with fondness. That, plus the Moravian fondness for documenting everything, gives Salem its claim to the first-ever Fourth of July celebration. Hardchannel is a softy at heart, however, with a fondness for traditional American musicals, so that he tends to burst into song at unlikely moments. Show More Sentences North Yorkshire landscape photographer Joe Cornish has a particular fondness for his picture of waves crashing over Whitby pier during a winter storm. It seems that Frank had a West Indian touch to him, to the way he batted and the way he lived, to his splendid unconcern for the record books and his fondness for rum. As a non-smoker who enjoys the occasional foray into tobacco, I remember with fondness my sampling of those great French unfiltered cigarettes, the Galois. He, no doubt, shall be remembered with fondness by many former students. It is that fondness for delving into experiences and locations that leads John to acknowledge that some people say he lives in the past rather than the present. But though, like Holmes, Hamlet is cleverer than everyone around him, his emotionalism and his fondness for poetic flights would unfit him as a private detective. Greek fondness for resinated wine originated in antiquity when goatskin wine bags and later wooden barrels were sealed with resin to prevent leakage. He shows genuine fondness for her as a strikingly handsome woman. Though his fondness for casinos has abated, he makes an occasional pilgrimage back to the one-armed bandits, and he plays the stock market even after the dot-com crash. Abbreviated from a 1925 Paris exhibition, art deco was a mix of cubism, art nouveau and Russian ballet, with a fondness for strident colours and geometric lines. Alexander Iolas is described as a theatrical man with a fondness for fur coats and an extraordinary eye for talent. And this diet, which would kill anybody but a pre-teen girl with a stomach of steel, left me with an eternal fondness for these three staples of the English gastronomy. We remember with fondness our unscheduled rest stop in Slidell, Louisiana. The fondness is so fresh I assumed he was talking about a recent trip. His approach to food embodies a culinary ecology whereby nothing edible is wasted, which in part explains his fondness for the sausage-like scrapple. And so we move with the times, stripping Twin Peaks down to the bare bones in an attempt to understand why our sense of fondness for it still lingers. Among Republicans, this disappointment has translated into what looks like a renewed fondness for interventionism. With a taut, shrunken face, a penchant for cocaine injections, and a fondness for disguise and deception, Holmes is his own Hyde. He was a top class stone mason and had a fondness for working with stone. The fondness of the British for this substance is illustrated by the fact that confectioner's sugar, a fine white powder, is known as icing sugar in Britain. Show More Sentences There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand. She relies heavily on assonance and shows a fondness for verbing nouns. Longtime Devine-watchers pointed to Stan's fondness for playing the ponies, but he's also a basketball and football enthusiast, and has had some preternaturally bad picks. I picked that passage because I think that even if it doesn't embody his whole range, it at least reflects his fondness for alacritous swerves of phrasing. An unusual menu is constructed around good produce, with a fondness for under-rated ingredients such as rabbit, Swiss chard, pike, kipper and butter bean. Traditionally run by women and without licences, today's shebeens and taverns are a profitable option based on humanity's fondness for the occasional toot. Yet again, you have to wonder about the company Tony keeps and his apparent fondness for sucking up to media barons and other people of wealth or influence. Over a third of women in their twenties are binge drinkers and their fondness for products like vodka and cocktails have helped drive spirits sales. His Welsh genes allow him to have a totally different view on life although he hasn't lost any of the traditional Welsh values, including a fondness for sheep. Slava Balasanov is 30, with a precise bowl cut and a surprising fondness for the plain black dress shoes of a bank teller. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Malariologists have an inordinate fondness for jargon, which has infected mosquito specialists, too. During that visit he recalled his time at the college, his early career, and expressed his later fondness for Jorden. Margaret Wooler showed fondness towards the sisters and she accompanied Charlotte to the altar at her marriage. The school choir sang in services at Westminster Abbey, which appealed to his fondness for ritual. The pair enjoyed each other's sense of humour and shared a fondness for clubbing. Archie Duncan notes Barbour's fondness for exaggerated numbers for the size of any army. It was the Normans and Swabians who first introduced a fondness for meat dishes to the island. If a man is philogynous towards his partner, she is more than likely to denote her philandry of fondness, love, or admiration for him. I have a special fondness for all late summer bloomers since so many gardens, and all the fancy perennial gardens, have shot their wad by then. Show More Sentences I got a telegram from over in Ellsworth that he has a fondness for slicing men up with that Texas toothpick of his. But few of the Liverpool squad will look back with any fondness on what they produced at the Stade Tourbillon. Who cares that they're the latest faded popstrels to cash in on the current fondness for nostalgia? His son Edward remembers COSH with great fondness, as he lived there from the age of three. I have a fuzzy memory of fondness for the beach when I was young. Unknown to him, he's actually a CIA sleeper agent who, thanks to a fondness for marijuana, has forgotten the fact. The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away. The Javanee is like the spaniel in his fondness for water. When possible he plants his house on the river's edge and runs a ladder-like stair from the back door to the stream. In the operas, and also in concert works, another characteristic Sullivan touch is his fondness for pizzicato passages for all the string sections. Hughes especially notes Sullivan's clarinet writing, exploiting all registers and colours of the instrument, and his particular fondness for oboe solos. His theatrical surfaces serve to conceal rather than reveal their author's views, and his fondness for towers of paradox spirals away from social comment. The initials stood for Tea Club and Barrovian Society, alluding to their fondness for drinking tea in Barrow's Stores near the school and, secretly, in the school library. Humphries' fondness for obscure words, such as lacunary, viscid and fuscous, is well indulged here, as is his outrageous, satirical sense of humour. Examples from Classical Literature Ned's father had been a consulting engineer with a fondness for aeronautics. For slider had shown for Way a fondness that was both beautiful and pathetic. She was a horsewoman and a hunter, and she had a sentimental fondness for Indians. The house finch has made many enemies because of its fondness for cultivated fruits and berries. The other class is made up of humanlike deities called diwta that retain a fondness for this world and the good things thereof. On the other hand he had an equal fondness for our older Bengali authors and Vaishnava Poets. Mr. Read's fondness was the saccharine that qualified the insipidity of his wife's apathy. For once, he had expressed that fondness in a primitive fashion, and he was glad. Yes, my heart swells, but not with the mawkish fondness of a feeble mother. The women of Avanti hate kissing, marking with the nails, and biting, but they have a fondness for various kinds of sexual union. Forgive, most kind reader, the prolix fondness with which I linger on this theme. I am fonder of you than any other man I know, but it is the fondness of long friendship. This because of his fondness for doing all manner of wonderful tricks on a trapese or the parallel bars. He retained a sneaking fondness for it, however, especially when presented in the form of golden syrup. Nell loved violets, and it was like waring to remember so bountifully her fondness for them. Jurgis developed a fondness for having Ona on his arm whenever he went out on the street, and he would hold her tightly, and walk fast. She had a fondness and admiration for this child and her audacity. The red spider and aphis have no special fondness for the Aster. But Beach had no fondness for book-learning or fine clothes. He was a long, slender youth, with green eyes, jet-black hair, and a passionate fondness for the sound of his own voice. Show More Sentences Besides, by partial fondness shown, Like you, we dote upon our own. He had a fatherly, benignant way of showing his fondness for her, which seemed in itself to express a good man. I have never held any particular fondness for heller for instance. Remblance's fondness for colloquial cockneyisms also brought us Diamond Geezer and Eezaa Geezer. He said he was of the Venetian school, doubtless from his fondness for color. She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. Sia looked steadily at the girl, and a fondness for her grew in his heart. Norah, whose fondness for reading had passed into a family proverb, took up book after book from table and shelf, and laid them down again, in despair of fixing her attention. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Poyser, who was remarkable for the facility with which she could relapse from her official objurgatory to one of fondness or of friendly converse. Her digital strategy for the firm is driven by a desire to engage a younger audience, and the North East diaspora who still hold a fondness for saveloy dips and pease pudding. Dede, who had a fondness for cattails, established a fringe of them along the meadow stream, where they were left to fight it out with the water-cress. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of fondness? Words that rhyme with fondness What is the plural of fondness? What is the adverb for fondness? What is the adjective for fondness? What is the noun for fondness? Translations for fondness Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words fond memories fondly fondling fondles fondler fondled fond of fonds fondu fondue fondues fone 8-letter Words Starting With f fo fon fond fondn fondne fondnes