Sentences with phrase «certain fondness for»
I have a certain fondness for selfies — I find they're a great way to snap quick facial expressions you don't have an emoji for, or show off something awesome you found.
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Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, has a certain fondness for penguins — the mascot for Linux is Tux the penguin — and has joked that he caught penguinitis, a strong affection for the flightless bird, after getting nipped by one at the National Zoo & Aquarium in Canberra, Australia.
Gore, November 2010: One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president.
He now admits that he supported it because he «had a certain fondness for the [corn] farmers in the state of Iowa» — who, not coincidentally, were crucial to his 2000 presidential bid.
He shows an avid hatred for people, and yet also a certain fondness for Poison Ivy, going so far as saying he «loves Ivy» despite claiming to hate her as well.
Growing up as I did in a Dodge / Chrysler / Plymouth store in the»60s and»70s, I confess to a certain fondness for and great memories of old Chrysler performance cars — Chargers,» Cudas, Road Runners — anything with a Hemi, basically.
Yet as in Östlund's earlier films — Involuntary (2008), Play (2011) and Force Majeure (2014) are the three to have had UK releases — there is compassion and concern and perhaps even a certain fondness for the characters here, even as they're getting it in the neck.
Despite a certain fondness for Carol Rance, she sees Matt LeBlanc for the boob he is and longs to get back to England.
Not exact matches
Noah Baumbach has a certain amount of fondness for his main character while it feels as if Jason Reitman holds his (and writer Diablo Cody) more in contempt.
He has a seeming fondness for catching orphans, locking them in the tiny cell in his office, and having the police ship them away to the local orphanage for even the most petty of crimes (As it turns out, Gustav himself is an orphan, and a fate similar to the one he imposes upon these children taught him order and a certain kind of heartlessness).
Of course, inspirational teaching is always helped by well equipped departments, but we all remember how a certain teacher will have shaped our fondness for a certain subject and music relies on this more than most.
Those of us of a certain age remember with great fondness, gathering the family together on Sunday afternoons and going for a drive just for the sake of watching the scenery pass by through the windows of our...
Those of us of a certain age remember with great fondness, gathering the family together on Sunday afternoons and going for a drive just for the sake of watching the scenery pass by through the windows of our huge family sedan.
I often pass over game scores that don't yet have any kind of official release (or aren't likely to get one), but there are certain composers I always want to bring to your attention — for example, there's no way to get a copy of the soundtrack to Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory, but I've developed a special fondness for the work of Masafumi Takada over the last couple years, so I have to at least mention it here.
What my fondness for Gravity Rush 2 suggests is something I should've always known anyway: What I love is a certain style of semi-coherent game world.
Although in 1973 he settled back in England, he retained certain transatlantic mannerisms: in vocabulary and manner of speech (a slight but pleasing drawl), and in his personal appearance (a fondness for cowboy boots and denim).
Merging his traditional graffiti education, his inclination toward «certain colour forms and certain application techniques», with his deep love of illustration and preliminary design, his fondness for «drafts, architectural renderings and pre-production concepts», Kofie plays with form and line, with balance and depth, twisting and manipulating his murals, his illustrations, his compositions, into ever new and dramatic arrangements.
Grassi's choice of expression must not merely be cataloged under the word «painting»: his fondness for certain simple and «used» materials should not be labelled «postdadaism»; his energetic stroke shouldn't be limited to a non-figurative heritage.