His tastes, hobbies, and heartbreaks were unknown, and we extrapolated them from his books at our peril.
As much as Mr. Ramsden loved the open living plan, he found elements of it a bit too open for his tastes.
His tastes in entertainment lean towards basketball, as he is purported to be a fan of the NBA and has overseen the construction of courts throughout the country.
In private life his tastes are Gandhian in their austerity: he has lived with his librarian wife and environmentalist daughter in the same two-bedroom flat for two decades.
This editor found the treble to be much to bright for his tastes -- especially with rock and pop tracks, it became quite jarring unless we toned it down with Google Music's EQ.
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Although born on the Virginia frontier, Thomas Jefferson became the most knowledgeable wine connoisseur of his age, and his tastes in wine covered the world: France, Italy, Germany, Madeira, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Hungary and, of course, America.
From rigorously sculpted grounds to profusely flowering rustic settings, he bends his personal tastes to those of his clients.
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With Colossus, RJD2 has become more sophisticated in integrating his assorted tastes, but the album preserves the sound that made him an underground star.
She was accustomed to going to the theatre with friends or with the lawyer-lover, though he preferred films, one of his limited tastes that she could at least share.
He insists on these points over and over again, as if they were not slightly banal, and unfortunately, as he does so, it becomes clear that he is laying down the law on the basis simply of his own tastes and prejudices.
Prince William, it can be countered, may share his father's tastes for country life and field sports, but he spends much of his time in royal unicorn mode, or something like it.
He shared the tastes of his English contemporaries: Madeira, his coat of arms and fox-hunting.
When Youth Radio's Jordan Monroe looks at his friends' musical tastes, he's worried about the future of the blues.
NCsoft is redoubling its efforts and has acquired a couple of American companies to help it devise games that marry American tastes with his firm's networking capabilities.
In these works you can take the measure of the man and the tastes of his age, shared by Huntington and Frick, whose own museums opened in 1927 and 1931.
Yet his intuition about the leisure tastes of the budding Thai middle class was dead-on.
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The festival runs for 21 days and, although not performing himself, Wyatt has invited musicians that reflect his own avant-garde tastes.
He said he was happy with his daughter's western tastes in pop music and fashion, and had bought her western-style clothes.
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Understanding a customer's tastes or earning his trust can be vital.
Stirling's "modern neo-classicism" followed in the '70s, further confounding observers, and some of the more substantial and idiosyncratic Biedermeier furniture was incorporated into his home and studio, where it suited his large frame and eclectic tastes perfectly.
The spectacle of World Wrestling Entertainment may not be to everyone's tastes but Isner and his friends still gather round to watch it every week.
His music was too light for some tastes, but everyone agreed he had a popular touch.
But Stills also made sure the songs reflected his own, ever-shifting musical tastes.
For years he missed the flavors of his childhood and yearned for the nostalgic tastes, which could not be satisfied in any of the commercially available fish sauces he found in Asian markets.
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In his mid-teens, he had the tastes and manners of a teen-ager from an earlier era.
Mr Daley, a notorious workaholic with simple tastes, is unlikely to have lined his pockets with taxpayers' money.
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Mr Nalebuff already runs a successful firm selling one of his bright ideas: bottled iced tea that actually tastes like tea.
"I still work 12-, 14-hour days when I'm on the road, " he said, though he no longer tastes hundreds of wines a day in his home office as he once did.
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