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Example sentences for: fondness

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(Homework assignment: find a single front-page piece in the entire history of the NYT emphasizing Hitler's fondness for animals and children.)
I've read book after book by this guy in an effort to understand why he's so highly regarded by comics critics, but I don't get it--maybe it's his fondness for retro '20s graphics.
We both confessed a fondness for Turner and Hooch . Then I said, "It's too bad they had to kill Hooch, though.
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McGrath earns extra plaudits for suppressing his usual fondness for the fantastic: Asylum "is closer to Hardy than Poe," says Phil Baker in the London Times . (See the Random House site for excerpts from Asylum .)