Sentences with phrase «fondness for stories»

Modern Farmer has a particular fondness for stories about anything having to do with goats.

Findings are presented from a pilot study that evaluated a new Web - based tool that links the interests of media - centric students with their natural fondness for story.

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(And lest you get the wrong impression, she laughs a lot as she tells her own story with an obvious fondness for her parents.)

He's got a huge fondness for the film industry and for rock «n» roll, both of which factor heavily into Manson's story.

My immense fondness for the hyacinth spurs from those memories of my grandfather, but also a story my sister would repeat about our dad.

Though the rise of political blogs and the netroots in this decade has diluted the place of Libertarians online, even today the audiences of tech - heavy sites such as Slashdot and Digg show a fondness for civil liberties and anti-authoritarian ideas: one sign of Paul's rise has been the large number of votes for stories about him on Digg.

Sometimes I worry about my fondness for «end of days» stories, from JG Ballard's The Drowned World to Margaret Atwood's complementary Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood.

Oh the Japanese and their fondness for school uniforms:p haven't had much of a look at the other dlc yet other than the free Japanese audio, though I still haven't even completed all the story modes.

All of the principal players interviewed share nothing but fondness for the project, and even those missing — King, Ted Danson, Hal Holbrook — seem to have a pretty positive recollection based on the stories and archival footage within.

The Way, Way Back is a crowd - pleasing, indie comedy that clearly has a fondness for adolescence and a story that will bring warm feelings to adults and coming - of - age teenagers alike.

He is tentatively set up as a possible romantic interest for Rose, but is otherwise given no character, beyond a ponytail, a fondness for model aeroplanes, and a missing arm, with the filmmakers refraining from giving us the story behind his absent limb.

Over on the TV side, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association once again proved its fondness for new series, recognizing virtually every major new 2016 premiere: Atlanta, American Crime Story, This Is Us, Westworld, Insecure, The Night Of, The Night Manager, Stranger Things, The Crown, Divorce, Goliath, and even Epix's political comedy Graves.

Unbelievably, given the violence that Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) endures in The Bad Batch and its ties to that which Miami Man (Jason Mamoa) dishes out, the film turns out to be something close to a love story — of two people discovering a rapport both in their shared cultural deprivation and fondness for a little girl who never knew a world before the one she calls home, the ironically dubbed Comfort community.

And the showbiz documentary «Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds,» will benefit from an HBO push and the voters» fondness for Hollywood stories.

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.

I don't read Apocalyptic Horror where the hero might feel a bit of fondness for the heroine by the end of the story.

I know you have a fondness for short story anthologies, as shown by your publishing of «Take the Money and Run» by Eleanor Francis, and I believe my collection of short stories will stimulate and interest you.

With great fondness and understanding, esteemed biographer Gooch corrects the false impression, which has lasted for decades, that Flannery O'Conner, the much celebrated Georgia novelist and short story writer, was an «eccentric recluse.»

Its editors are open to all genres except for syrupy romance, hard science fiction and children's stories, and they have a special fondness for humor.

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Certainly, I felt affection the moment I heard the first notes of Kyle Gabler's whimsical score start up; though I've never actually played the game myself, it's one I have a secondhand fondness for thanks to the memories and stories of my family members playing it — my, brother, sister - and - law and husband were all absolutely enamored with the Wii version, and my father (who basically stopped playing games after the era of Battlezone and Karateka) honestly shocked me when he revealed he'd installed the mobile version on his phone to pass the time.

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.

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

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.

As much as I tell those stories, I also frequently tell people that my fondness for traveling this country overland has increased with every trip I make.