Sentences with phrase «fondness for older»

His special fondness for older pets has led him to a spot on the Advisory Board of The Grey Muzzle Organization, which is dedicated to helping homeless senior dogs.

His special fondness for older pets has led him to a spot on the advisory board of The Grey Muzzle Organization, which is dedicated to helping homeless senior dogs.

All in all, Shadow Complex is a finely - crafted game that is sure to please anyone with a fondness for the older Metroids or the newer side - scrolling Castlevanias as this offers up a similar experience, with some of its own touches that help it stand out from the rest.

Whether by design or coincidence, Twain's plan took advantage of people's fondness for the old general and their longing for a way to show their patriotism.

Serie A, rather surprisingly for a league renowned for many years for its tactical sophistication still has a fondness for old fashioned centre forward types.

While Damien Chazelle «s La La Land wears its fondness for old school Hollywood productions proudly on its sleeve, his portrayal of present - day Los Angeles is hardly unflattering.

The platonic friendship between Daniel and Katie, and Daisy and Dylan's burgeoning fondness for the old carpenter are some of the film's finest moments.

But that is something that we wanted to do, to just show them then and now, because there's such a fondness for the old movie.

«I have a fondness for old pitchers and pottery, where I store my paint brushes.

Not exact matches

Yet from constitutional centennial to bicentennial, successive generations of American Jews had been taught to believe that the fondness for «Old Testament» metaphors in American public discourse displayed the fundamental continuity between ancient Jewish and modern American values — when, in fact, these metaphors expressed a flourishing Christian triumphalism.

I was just seven years old when the Panthers played their first season in 1995, I remember my grandfather sent me all sorts of memorabilia their opening season and I developed a fondness for the Panthers.

Those days are now a distant memory as he's heading towards 8 years old now but I still remember that time with great fondness so I've put together my favourite Easter Activities for Toddlers for you from those days.

The 67 - year - old spoke with obvious fondness for «La Marqueta,» the famed marketplace and community hub in East Harlem.

Jeanne Calment, the French doyenne believed to be oldest person in the world when she died at the extreme age of 122, was known for three things: her quick wit, her fondness for bicycling around the small city where she grew up — and the fact that she was a daily smoker.

With this look, I mixed the old fondness for plaid with my current feminine penchant for tulle.

Anyway, from the jump, Harding's chain - smoking mother LaVona (a brilliantly snake - like Allison Janney in a part written for her) pushed her, all but forcing a coach (Julianne Nicholson) to take her at 3 years old, which might have turned out OK if it wasn't for Harding's fondness for Gillooly, a local doofus several years her senior.

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.

It's hardly the first time Allen has worked in black and white (he did so a year earlier on the comparable Broadway Danny Rose and five years before that on Manhattan, to name two predecessors), but it is perhaps the first time that Allen could fully embrace and emulate old Hollywood style, something he's always displayed a fondness for in his nostalgic tastes.

The plot alone has also raised eyebrows: C.K. plays a divorced TV producer whose teenage daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) falls in love with a much older man (John Malkovich), a celebrated filmmaker with a checkered past and an undeniable fondness for very young women.

It's tricky adapting an old TV show whose fanbase has aged out of Hollywood's business model, leaving young people with neither fondness for nor familiarity with the source material.

The old gang has been disbanded for some time now, and it seems like only Gary (Segel) and his Muppet brother Walter (voiced by Peter Linz) remember the old Muppet Show with fondness.

John Carpenter's impressive POV opening sequence includes a shot of Michael's hand reaching down to grab a red - nosed mask, foreshadowing the older Michael's fondness for killing with his face covered.

However, the Coens» fondness for intentional anti-climax — put to pointed and poignant use in movies like Inside Llewyn Davis, No Country For Old Men, Barton Fink, and A Serious Man — gets the better of thfor intentional anti-climax — put to pointed and poignant use in movies like Inside Llewyn Davis, No Country For Old Men, Barton Fink, and A Serious Man — gets the better of thFor Old Men, Barton Fink, and A Serious Man — gets the better of them.

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.

The results showed that children's fondness for reading lessens as they get older, because whilst 17 % of the older age group read for fun, that figure is much higher among ages 6 - 8 (54 %), dropping to 43 % for ages 9 to 11 and 24 % for 12 - 14.

Precocious 11 - year - old Flavia de Luce has a fondness for chemistry and poisons.

The last book by this gritty, feisty, and eloquent Mississippian (who died in 1999) reads like a summary statement of his fondness for his native state as he follows 16 - year - old Swayze Barksdale, who is busy gathering impressions of the adult world at the time of the Korean War.

Despite the latter point, I do suspect that Columns «longevity has more to do with Sega's incessant need to repackage their old games than anyone's lingering fondness for it.

Between the ASCII art and the way it uses its science fiction setting to push the genre's fondness for procedurally generated loot in a new direction, Cogmind is geared toward old school Roguelike obsessives, not casual players, but we're good with that.

As a digital gaming early adopter nearly 15 years ago, who was a loyal Steam user even before Half Life 2 popularized the service, and a beta participant in the launch of «Good Old Games», I have a particular fondness for both Steam and GoG.

In interviews around the time of Frieze, he expressed fondness too for a photo of a toothless, spectral Ray cackling in the mirror — a scene he described as «terrifying» for the way it channels existential fears of solitude and growing old.

While still in her 20's, Corse, now 66, was already wrestling with the big issues: how to combine her interest in Minimalism with her fondness for the good old - fashioned brushstroke, as well as for the qualities of pure, unadulterated light.

I've always held such fondness for that sweet old phrase.