I have a personal fondness for Congressman Garfield.
"The Fuhrer still feels a personal fondness for Mussolini," he said, sounding more than a little embarrassed.
And I have a personal fondness for the subject since the first thing I ever did was a play of that story.
After sampling all beers, the tasters rated them as follows: Overall quality points, from zero to 100, reflecting their personal, subjective fondness for the beer.
Matthau, who had a great personal fondness for opera, is said to have selected the soundtrack himself.
They would be acting not out of any personal fondness, but because they might be useful to one another.
Inafune, who always enjoyed working on animal support characters, was especially pleased to design Tango due to the artist's personal fondness for cats.
And he retains a personal fondness for O'Hara 26 years after that author's death.
There is nothing wrong, and much right, in having empathy, even personal fondness for the people one chronicles.
However, it must be noted that Lincoln did express a personal fondness for the tune.