Sentences with phrase «of fondness for»

Without knowing it, couples tend to set up routines and fit each other into roles rather than face the unpredictability and inherent challenges that come with maintaining passion, excitement, and a deep sense of fondness for another person, separate from themselves.

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

So even though my nostalgia for the series is very limited compared to many, I have a fair amount of fondness for it, like the pretty girl who works at the coffee shop who has a nice smile but you only go to for coffee, nothing more.

Cats are just like children; sometimes they don't get along because they just don't, much like siblings who have grown out of their fondness for each other.

That should be pleasing to animal - lovers regardless of their fondness for cats, Bruin says.

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.

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

Anyone who knows me as a teacher — or who has read a few of my Voice of Experience essays — probably knows of my fondness for Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

Phillips himself stars as Shawn, or Shonzi as he's often called (because of his fondness for the Fonz from Happy Days), a mentally challenged amateur filmmaker whose contentious relationship with his self - absorbed brother, Todd (Timm Sharp), routinely threatens Todd's new romance with the sensitive Lindsay (Melanie Lynskey).

Her nose for a good scoop becomes somewhat difficult to maintain once she begins to have feelings of fondness for the down - and - out rodeo star, coming to enjoy his simple ambitions and noble aspirations.

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.

Despite the cruel training conditions, Vlad excelled and over time earned the nickname of Vlad the Impaler because of his fondness for skewering his enemies.

Academy voters for the 2016 Oscar nominations apparently «never let go» of their fondness for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, both nominated for their respective roles in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant and Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs.

Most of you will be aware of my fondness for all all things DeNiro but his work here is one of his most under - appreciated.

Scott likes to point out to me that in spite of my fondness for anti-bacterial products, I still manage to get sick all the time.

Harper retains much of his fondness for governing from the centre, so Wright matters because he is now running the centre.

I don't look back with any high degree of fondness for the formal performance reviews my working life.

Not exact matches

If it weren't for the sweet rush of endorphins afterward — and perhaps an intractable fondness for beer and cheese — would we even run at all?

In a case study, subjects reported significantly higher feelings of respect and fondness for their colleagues who used this technique.

Scarlett Johansson has a particular fondness for working with Allen, starring in three of his films: «Match Point,» «Scoop,» and «Vicky Cristina Barcelona.»

Winkler, 58, has a reputation as a sort of adulte terrible, known in business journalism circles for his volcanic temper and his fondness for bow ties.

The company is not discussing the terms of the partnership, but it'll take Tidal's fondness for exclusives one step further.

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.

More revealing is that the Amazon CEO's fondness for the written word drives one of his primary, and peculiar, tools for managing his company: Meetings of his «S - team» of senior executives begin with participants quietly absorbing the written word.

A frugal man with a fondness for junk food, perhaps the most impressive part of Buffett's $ 60 billion fortune is that it doesn't include the more than $ 25 billion he's already given away.

A dude in his 40s with a sparse goatee and a fondness for baseball jerseys, Lightspeed operates a string of solo girl websites, each focused on a particular performer.

A frugal man with a fondness for junk food, perhaps the most impressive part of Buffett's $ 60 billion fortune is that it doesn't include the $ 21.5 billion he's already given away.

But in another sense it's a perfect fit, because another part of the bitcoin ethos — and one closely linked to its libertarianism — is a fondness for hard money.

China should be attractive to small U.S. companies, due to the market's size, rising consumption in the country and an increasing fondness for American products among China's young and growing middle class of over 300 million consumers.

Some geeks of my antique have a nostalgic fondness for trackballs, but I under no circumstances managed...

After Varsano sold a plane to the corporate raider Nelson Peltz in the mid -»80s, he went to work for him in the world of private equity, where he developed a halfhearted fondness for the Gekko manner.

The liberal fondness for talking about community would seem to reflect some effort to compensate rhetorically for the absence of the real thing.

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

Of course, YHWH did have a fondness for barbecue smoke going all the way back to Cain and Able.

Brightman's reasoning is from the «inside out» (empirical) in both cases; in this regard he calls himself an «empiricist of consciousness, 48 which also explains his willingness, evidently motivated by a fondness for his method, to collapse epistemological and metaphysical questions.

His fondness for Stcherbatsky's translation of sunyata as «universal relativity» may be the problem here.

The film holds back on portraying neither Walls» fondness for her parents, nor the depths of her parents» failures.

A concomitant problem with the concept of dynamic equivalence is a tendency on the part of the translators to heighten the language of the original, with its distinct fondness for repetition of terms and for a kind of primary vocabulary.

Despite his fondness for the ontological argument, Hartshorne never put the burden of the theistic case on this piece of reasoning alone.

These demons, which seem to have a fondness for entering the human body through domestic abuse during childhood, inflict the type of pain in the head that drives people to cut themselves with stones or razor blades in order to bring some temporary relief.

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.

I like all the «Beach Goth Noise - Pop» music I linked to last time, and have a real fondness for a number of the bands.

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.

will hardly ever be rightly rationalized but for a few who do so righteously believe in literal fondness of God and his families and his servants and other godliness brethren's living deeply seeded inside all mannerisms of celestially based Life and life formations aplenty yet never filled up by God's kingdom's brethren!

But in the wake of the «No» vote Salmond has stated his intention to resign, and the next generation of SNP leaders have no special fondness for the Catholic Church.

«These divisions reflect two characteristics of Matthew's Gospel: (1) an apparent fondness for numbers and (2) concern for systematic arrangement.

This fondness for Americans and their nation continued until the end of his life.

Any «fondness» for him is certainly not coming from the English, who celebrate Guy Fawkes Day by tossing dummies of him into bonfires.

Sleeping in on Sundays, spending my money on myself instead of some priestpervs legal defense fund or a pastor's fondness for hoookers and blow...

In the eyes of some commentators the Tractarians» fondness for the word was little more than a display of familiarity with Aristotelian moral philosophy, in which the term could be used simply as shorthand for moral temper or moral disposition.