No one should wish to deny these purists the obvious pleasure they derive from all this, and to give fair warning where warning is due, no one who becomes fond of wines ever avoids acquiring some degree of purism!!

Characterized as a sociopath and a hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent and quick-witted, with sophisticated taste in music, being particularly fond of Beethoven, or " Lovely Ludwig Van.

Poirot, as mentioned in Curtain and The Clocks, is extremely fond of classical music, particularly Mozart and Bach.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

He is also fond of horses and is angered when he sees them used in combat.

La Solitude du chanteur de fond is a one-hour documentary about Marker's friend Yves Montand's benefit concert for Chilean refugees.

The film's original French title is Le fond de l ' air est rouge, which means " the air is essentially red ", or " revolution is in the air ", implying that the socialist movement existed only in the air.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Though he will eat nearly anything ( with the exception of raisins and spinach ), Garfield is particularly fond of lasagna ; he also enjoys eating Jon's houseplants and other pets ( mainly birds and fish ).

The personality behind the poems is unsuited to the kind of " aristocratic withdrawal " typical of a rhapsode but is instead " argumentative, suspicious, ironically humorous, frugal, fond of proverbs, wary of women.

He is also not fond of reading and is a bit lazy as he was napping on a pile of books instead of giving them to Kitty to put away.

A modern English example is " painted Jezebel " as a disapproving expression for a woman too fond of using cosmetics.

Yet, if the purpose of Polo's tales was to impress others with tales of his high esteem and fond regard in an advanced civilization, then it is possible that Polo shrewdly would omit those details that would cause his listeners to scoff at the Chinese with a sense of European superiority.

Like Shakespeare, Plautus is especially fond of making up and changing the meaning of words.

He is said to be a wise Lord, fond of study, and all men hope for good from his rule.

Watson writes in " The Adventure of the Dying Detective " that Mrs. Hudson is fond of Holmes in her own way, despite his bothersome eccentricities as a lodger, owing to his " remarkable gentleness and courtesy in his dealings with women ".

The whole country is windy and dusty during the dry season.

The whole country is windy and dusty during the dry season.

Rime is a type of ice deposition that occurs quickly, often under conditions of heavily saturated air and windy conditions.

The city is also very windy, which may decrease the apparent temperature.

This area is cold and windy in the winter and frequently experiences blizzards because of the openness of the landscape.

This area is cold and windy in the winter and frequently experiences blizzards because of the openness of the landscape.

The climate is very damp and windy and winters are harsh and long.

The general character of the climate is windy and cloudy with at least of rain falling on more than 250 days a year.

The waiter covered the glass with a slice of cured ham before offering it to the king, to protect the wine from the beach sand, as Cádiz is a windy place.

Zone defense is frequently used when the weather is windy, rainy, or snowy.

Seasons are fairly well defined, and in most of Uruguay spring is usually damp, cool, and windy ; summers are warm ; autumns are mild ; and winters are chilly and uncomfortably damp.

Cotton strippers are used in regions where it is too windy to grow picker varieties of cotton, and usually after application of a chemical defoliant or the natural defoliation that occurs after a freeze.

The city is often subject to windy weather ; the strongest wind is the mistral.

The popular proverb is, however, somewhat exaggerated, Avenie ventosa, sine vento venenosa, cum vento fastidiosa ( windy Avignon, pest-ridden when there is no wind, wind-pestered when there is )

Due to the windy climate, the most important renewable energy in Gallura is the wind power.

The least windy month is September, with 7 days of strong winds.

From December to March the weather is unsettled and usually rainy and windy but you can also often expect great amounts of sunshine averaging around 5 hours a day.

But these moments tend to be clustered together, and a lot of the film is devoted to windy argument.

Because of the Gulf Stream's moderating influence, the climate is characterized by damp, cool summers and relatively mild but windy winters.

Lodging ( the toppling over of the plant stem, especially under windy conditions ) resistance is a complexly inherited ( expression is controlled by many genes ) trait, and has thus been an important breeding aim in the past.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

It is a total situation that is defended: the `` good old days ''.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

This is the period during the melancholy days of autumn when universities and colleges schedule what they call `` Homecoming Day ''.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies.

Within sixty days after the receipt of notice that the Export-Import Bank is prepared to act favorably upon an application the Department of Economic Affairs will indicate to the Export-Import Bank whether or not the Department of Economic Affairs has any objection to the proposed loan.

Whenever there is a thaw or a few sunny days, you'll be likely to find a brave little blossom or two.

As the ungoverned days of the automobile and the airplane are long since relegated to the past, so is the carefree attitude toward what a boatman may and may not do ; ;

A pleasant start to your midwestern vacation is a few days spent in cosmopolitan Chicago.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

One of the advantages of this method is that the `` pill '' can remain in the patient for several days, permitting observation under natural conditions.