Sentences with phrase «fondness for making»

Which, of course, they are, and the movie gets some mileage out of the tension between their wild natures (tearing out the throats of chickens) and their genteel demeanors (Mr. Fox's fondness for making toasts).

He's earnest about the things he likes, and repeatedly defends his fondness for making films in which bad things happen to gorgeous women.

Even the liberal New York Times is unsettled by the new mayor's fondness for making big promises:

90 % of journalists have a fondness for making Arsene and Arsenal the villain.

My dad and mom had a daily green drink ritual (still do), always stocked our fridge with non-dairy milk and tofu, and had a fondness for making giant pots of mung beans and rice.

My coach has a fondness for making us do weighted ultimate burpees and they're oh so brutal.

Not exact matches

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Pius XII made a tactical decision because he thought Pius XI's approach was too brutal — and because his fondness for Germany led him to consider that Hitler might eventually become more democratic.

Although I liked it well enough when I bought a commercial brand, my fondness for it went up about 100 % after making it from scratch.

I already have a fondness for vegetarian chili and quinoa casseroles, but I can always count on my quinoa bowls to make my tummy smile.

I made a conscious effort NOT to like those, and today I can say that my fondness for them has left me.

Now that my little one is approaching toddler - hood, I look back with fondness on all the homemade baby food recipes I made for him.

To make sure that these traits do not merely reflect a more general fondness for all children, Vasey will soon head back to Samoa to refine and, with luck, replicate the study.

In today's issue of Science, a researcher makes a strong case that this diversity stems from the beetles» fondness for a leafy diet and the appearance of flowering plants some 100 million years ago.

Recordings of drumming by eight adult males made between 2003 and 2011 revealed significant differences in how long the males liked to drum, their fondness for doublets and pauses, and how many beats they could squeeze into a drumming bout.

It was a compelling scenario, and I scribbled out several pages, along the way making the point that the news would be particularly hard on women, given their documented fondness for what sociolinguist Deborah Tannen calls «rapport talk» — that constant stream of friendly jabber that seems to reassure them that they're still alive and that no one's currently threatening their young.

I have quickly discovered that I love every Sperry Top - Sider product ever made... (I think I have a fondness for nautical style!)

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If you too have a fondness for living off paper plates and doing dishes once a month, this may be a match made in heaven.

Caesar overindulges his fondness for period «style» with screen «wipes» and crazily angled shots that make it seem as if the camera was getting home late and unsteady from a drinking spree.

He goes through the scenes in The Spectacular Now and Whiplash and Bleed for This, emphasizing his fondness for acting opposite Eckhart and admitting that, more often than not, it's the fuck - ups that stick with him, not the magic that made the final cut.

If Green ultimately takes too much pride in his hipster references (however nostalgic I got seeing the 2001-esque United Artists logo that used to scare the bejesus out of me as a child, it's self - conscious whims like these that make Undertow sometimes feel superficially invested), the presence of the generally indifferent Bell has a neutralizing effect on Green's tendency towards the pedantic, and the director's championing of old - school values — his dislike of ADR, his fondness for found locations — once again inspires lonely but hearty cries of solidarity.

In a rather gutsy move, Akhtar doesn't take the easy way out in bowing to the character's popularity and soften Don into a more palatable «antihero»; Don remains gleefully, unrepentantly evil (and retains his fondness for Tom and Jerry cartoons), making for a rather refreshing villain's perspective - driven actioner, and a fiercely energized Khan clearly relishes this latest opportunity to break away from his trademark roguish romantic hero persona.

His escape, aside from those elaborate daydreams, is Jordana, a girl with porcelain delicacy whose faults are limited to a penchant for bullying, a fondness for starting fires, and intermittent bouts of eczema, As he calculates it, she is just unpopular enough to be attainable, but just popular enough to make her desirable.

A road trip later in the picture offers a change of pace, but this is a slice of life of one of many trying to make it on the folk circuit, and the Coens capture every detail, acknowledging their fondness for their era, while being able to laugh at it as well (though without getting as broad as Christopher Guest «s «A Mighty Wind,» the last major folk movie).

Among the other, smaller surprises: Ruth Negga made the Best Actress shortlist for Loving ahead of Amy Adams for Arrival, despite the Academy's overall fondness for the latter movie.

Hepburn, who also wrote the screenplay, shows a fondness for neo-realism, with a wealth of handheld shots, often uncomfortable closeups, elements of kitchen sink melodrama ---- great secondary performances from the likes of Nicholas Campbell and Mary Galloway make any soap opera elements utterly convincing ---- and sequences where the bucolic backgrounds and wintry landscapes seem to obsess and overwhelm the characters.

The show made several overt, clear - cut homages to this pivotal moment, from Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue to the striking tableau of Harvey Weinstein accusers Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd, and Annabella Sciorra presenting a powerful Time's Up short film together — all carefully planned in order to strike the perfect balance between an industry's clear - eyed reckoning and its fondness for self - celebration.

As my first exposure to his work, Martian Child makes Meyjes look like a competent director with an appetite for montage and a fondness for direct heart - to - heart, eye - to - eye chats.

She can shut off the speech, and can even restrict Ian's access to the paint pot if she thinks he's spending too much time illustrating the story and not enough time reading it — a measure that his fondness for coloring sometimes makes necessary.

Fortunately for us, Pikes Peak is now paved from start to finish, yet Zwart's eerie fondness for telling tales of mishaps, many of which end with upside - down cars, isn't making us feel at ease as we get ready to run up Pikes Peak.

An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen.

I'm always getting «flagged» in «make your blog better» programs for using too complex of a sentence format; my (excessive) fondness for semicolons is probably a big part of it, taken with the parenthetical digressions.

The good news is that this fondness for loose soil usually makes litter box training fairly easy.

It's really his enthusiasm for playtime, his fondness for catnip, and his adventurous spirit that make this tabby a special kitty.

Now Orson is at at the ASPCA Adoption Center, where he has quickly became a staff favorite due to his happy demeanor, quickness to make new friends and fondness for any kind of snack.

If you're a Twitch Prime member with a fondness for Fortnite, you may rejoice once more: another batch of exclusive Fortnite goodies will be made available as part of Twitch Prime subscriptions on Wednesday, May 9th.

Boost pads also seem to stand out less and exhibit a fondness for successive placement, making them both harder to find and more necessary to utilize.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

Naturally, it's the fondness and the memories I have for this game combined with the franchise seemingly condemned to Microsoft Limbo that make the loss of this game sting extra-hard.

With combat that is silky - smooth, style skipping game play, and a fondness for the original, make me dead excited to get my hands on Nier again.

Born in London, I spent much of my early life in various fairly remote parts of Africa, developing a fondness for beauty in its most natural state - as things really are, rather than as they are often made to appear.

Haines's artists share a fondness for color and a tendency to root around in the annals of art history, which makes a typical visit to his gallery rich pickings indeed.

Now it makes no mention of recreation at all, but he enjoys sailing dinghies and there are stories of him as an energetic dancer at the office party - with a fondness for the music of Little Richard.

I have a fondness for such simple conceptual models (e.g. I've made my own attempt posted at arXiv) because they provide a general picture of the essence — of course their precision is limited by their simplicity.

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.

Perhaps they do not lie all the time, perhaps the fondness for Marks makes them see and think things that are not there.

Although Turow starts his essay by recounting how he admonished his daughter not to become a litigator, he concedes his own fondness for litigation, calling the courtroom the place «where the law [is] made, where the fundamental struggle to fit the law to facts takes place.»

LG has made no secret of its fondness for flexible e-paper, but those dreams became a reality today...

In couples counseling, we carefully tease out what each partner does to make the relationship difficult, collaboratively lay out what expectations each can have of the other, and find new ways each can express their fondness and affection for the other.