"I don't remember you ever expressing any particular love for it," he retorted.

It's common to people who are good at something they have no particular love for.

They were too old now, surely, to resent their father's particular love for his seventh son.

Not that she was conscious of any particular love for Old Grandmother.

His grandparents have a particular love for their darling little grandchildren.

He has expressed a particular love for the works of Mozart.

Whether "she loves me" or not tells us nothing about what's going to happen, what that particular love will be like.

I have all along had a particular love for the morning glories.

Music, for which I had no particular love, gave me an identity.

He was also interested in many languages outside his field, and developed a particular love for the Finnish language.