"What a pity it is, Elinor," said Marianne, "that Edward should have no taste for drawing."
"No taste for drawing!" replied Elinor, "why should you think so?
I shall not lose you so soon, and Edward will have greater opportunity of improving that natural taste for your favourite pursuit which must be so indispensably necessary to your future felicity.
Sense and Sensibility
"The point is," I concluded my sermon, "that it is the accessibility of alcohol that has given me my taste for alcohol.
I read back in my life and saw how the accessibility of alcohol had given me the taste for it.
John Barleycorn
Thus perceiving a
taste for a certain modern style of poetry in my companion, I bethought me of a poem which I had written on the roadside a few days before, and which, I confess, I was eager to confide to some sympathetic ear.
Quest of the Golden Girl
All meat tasted alike to him, for his
taste for meat was one of the vanished pleasures in the limbo of memory.
Jerry of the Islands
He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet, serious, and retiring manners, and a decided
taste for reading, and sedentary pursuits.
Persuasion
Here's an illustrative example of the importance of
taste for a specific demographic population.
Flavor: The New Frontier: A critical component of new product development, flavor should be integrated into the overall concept and marketing strategy
At first, I tried to explain my
taste for these things by approaching them from a utilitarian viewpoint.
On Granite Countertops and Wolf Ovens: An Essay on Taste
A CHANGE in your
taste for sugar, caffeine, alcohol and carbs can take away the appetite.
WHEN YOUR favourite food JUST DOESN'T TASTE RIGHT
They further report that mice lacking the gene for this taste terminator protein are more sensitive to bitter taste and also find it more aversive, possibly because they experience the
taste for a longer period of time.
Protein sheds light on why some people are sensitive to bitter tastes
With
taste for life[R] Symrise helps its customers to position their brands and products in the middle ground between 'holistic health' on the one hand and 'pure pleasure' on the other.
Symrise taste platform for flavours
"Our findings build on previous research in the United States that used animal models to discover fat taste," Dr Keast said."We know that the human tongue can detect five tastes -- sweet, salt, sour, bitter and umami (a
taste for identifying protein rich foods).
Discovery of 'Fat' Taste Could Lead to Reducing Obesity
Enjoyment of classical music, by this account, is no different from the
taste for fine wines or cuisine-a marker of a cultural elite.
Taste