It complements a fondness for thinking that one has found the key to everything.
Bill and Andy had known each other since 1978 and shared a fondness for fast cars.
The Swabian yuppie, with multiple offspring and a fondness for coffee bars, is a widely despised figure.
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As a chubby 6-year-old, I had already developed a fondness for it.
Male celebrities, in particular, have a fondness for marching down the aisle.
Troy acquired a fondness for Montana and moved his practice to Bozeman.
Both Dragons and Dwarves have a fondness for possessing gold and jewels.
For Peter, who has had a fondness for ballet for more than 40 years, the classes certainly seem to be having positive effects.
He had a fondness for mafia movies, international travel and a passion for reading history, to learn from the past's "mistakes, " he wrote.
Those who know or have worked with him say Anschutz is a down-to-earth, hard-driving businessman with a fondness for chomping on little unlit cigars.
Special Stage Systems' Ming Mecca system is built entirely around that concept -- and will definitely appeal to anyone with a fondness for analog electronics.
Centrist politics, charm, even a fondness for new-age jargon: it is hardly surprising that Ms Granholm is being compared to a certain recently retired baby-boomer.
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And...there are a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced, and he's, I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.
" Others bare sensitive souls: Leonard Earl Howze's Dinka describes himself, correctly enough, as "an overweight barber from West Africa with a fondness for poetry.
For those who read our blogs on a regular basis, you know we have a fondness for bringing wit to the discussions of brands and measurement.
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Some popular culprits, such as short-termism in the City and a fondness for takeovers, or the public schools and anti-business snobbery, he dismisses out of hand.
The husband of a director of the company also introduced Mr Blunkett to a young-ish woman with a fondness for newspaper confessions, at Annabel's, a posh London nightclub.
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Its 113 horsepower engine feels slightly anemic in this age of 200 horsepower sedans, but it's perfectly serviceable as long as you don't have a fondness for jackrabbit starts at stoplights.
Being a mere CPA, with a fondness for American history, I was really glad to see somebody a lot smarter than me make the conservative case against the Defense of Marriage Act.
It used to be joked that the main qualifications for attendance at its ministerial bashes were the ability to speak English, and a fondness for golf, karaoke and durian, a pungent fruit.
Benny Avni, the head of the District Council of Tel Ilan, was a lanky man with stooped shoulders and a fondness for rumpled clothes and oversized sweaters, which gave him an ursine look.
Clarke says he tried not to give him too many ideas, but then found himself wondering if he was the basis for a new character - a health minister with a fondness for smoking.
With a string of victories to his name, the 18-year-old Thai transvestite had shown his taunters that you can have a fondness for lipstick and nail varnish and still survive in the brutal wor ld of kickboxing.
Lightner has a fondness for things found on forest floors, but his technical skill is what defines the food, which is showcased up front in a series of amuses inspired by the flavors and textures of snacks: crunchy, salty, sticky, chewy.
Also, in the August 2009 elections, Denny Tamaki, a former radio deejay with a fondness for rock-and-roll, won a seat in the Lower House, representing a district in Naha, the capital of Okinawa prefecture, located south of the main Japanese islands.
Kettman, a California native who grew up as a fan of the San Francisco Giants, was a sports reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and cultivated a fondness for Fenway Park and the Red Sox while covering the Oakland A's for four years in the 1990s.
Based on Jennifer Weiner's best-selling novel, the film is excellent when portraying the lifelong disconnect between two loving sisters: Maggie (Cameron Diaz), a kleptomaniac with no fixed employment and a fondness for one-night stands, and Rose (Toni Collette), who has nothing in her life but her job in a law firm.
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Bright and juicy with grassy, herbal notes and refreshing acidity, it was one of the best Sauvignon Blancs that I've tasted this year kosher or otherwise. (Covenant also makes two highly regarded reds, but both were sold out.) Rabbi Brenner expressed a fondness for the 2011 Carmel Riesling, though he was voted down.
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The man himself often lived up to his bleak dream-world: lean, intense, racked by stomach complaints, and with a special fondness for the rugged limestone island of Faro, off Sweden's east coast, where he built a low stone house on an empty sweep of rock.
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