How To Use Penchant In A Sentence

Having a penchant for natural fabrics and dyes, he uses man-made fibers and chemical dyes as well.
That penchant for dressing bald rats in sequins and leather is a different story altogether.
(It is a geekly penchant to do things from scratch, but then this is not always unjustified.) Planet RDF
The working masochists came off as bellyachers and had a penchant for making people listen to their workplace war stories.
What drew slightly more attention was his penchant for staying after class, gently proselytizing about Jesus to some of the younger lingerers.

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This singer has a penchant for scatting and surprising material, but where he has an astonishingly pure voice, hers has more feeling.
It isn't easy being a red-hot lover these days, but take heart, help is at hand for those with a penchant for penning a love poem.
Part of this is down to his penchant for boasting about his morning run on social media. Times, Sunday Times
The girls share an awkward, boxy physical presence, highlighted by their penchant for vintage clothes and clompy boots.
America's emotional attachment to flags attests the country's penchant for patriotic spectacle.
Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment.
But apart from the tapas bar on the top floor, this was a disappointment - unless you have a penchant for overpriced, mumsy clothes and twee ornaments, don't bother including it on your itinerary.
That is a perennial weakness of princes - a penchant for false-hearted favourites.
Website visitors might be surprised to learn that in addition to the Duke's penchant for collecting items like penknives, the queen's husband also enjoys painting landscapes in oils. Queen Elizabeth II's husband to mark birthday
With their regular penchant for not only making political mischief, they now appear to be in cahoots together by dispatching letters which do not appear to make any rational sense.
Abraham had a penchant for being critical and had no hesitation in publicly chastising his colleagues, regardless of their rank or position.
Are you a 13-16 year old girl with a penchant for acting and a future as bright as the sun itself?
The penchant for booing by baseball spectators probably reached its lowest level of uncouthness in 1985 when the first-place Toronto Blue Jays met the second-place Yankees in the opener of a crucial four-game series at Yankee Stadium.
He's also had to deal with the administration's penchant for putting GOP hacks and/or total nitwits in charge of its ‘public diplomacy’ efforts.
I was tall and slender with long dark hair and a penchant for Anna Belinda clothes, and fancifully thought our bohemian style set us apart in our particular pocket of south London. Family life
Whenever I express my penchant for reality television in the circle of snide, knowing, not-as-smart-as-they-think-they-are crosspatches that I'm cursed to call friends, I often do so defensively.
amd fan boi: do something useful for once if that is all possible, given your penchant for dead-end technologies, shore up the blogs firewall and the one on fsj's IP also. and for f**k's sake shut up about 'caledonia,' or i'll have 'trey' back here insinuating 'c**kf*g' at you for your effeminate use of 'boi'! Sumner Redstone keeps firing people
History in Edinburgh has a peculiar penchant for throwing together people, politics and passion.
I respected Trudeau as a politician but preferred boys my own age, with long hair, torn jeans and a penchant for using the word groovy between bong hits. The Hearts Of (Some) Canadian Women Broken
My friend Ryan, for instance, has a penchant for overcomplicating everything, his own sentences included.
The track exemplifies Twine's penchant for crafting beautiful tuneage that struggles through a software-erected forcefield.
The youngest is Pfeni, a travel writer who never stays in one place for long, and has a penchant for unattainable men.
She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal.
Because of the delicate nature of contemporary analysis, there is a penchant to lean in either of two ways: hagiography or unfettered antagonism.
I have any number of fairly prurient interests, among them, a penchant for gossip columns.
While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by Gaudí's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life. Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution
The club's penchant for flattering only to deceive is now way beyond a joke. Times, Sunday Times
Randall, with his silly-looking mullet and penchant for pyramid-scheme businesses, bumbles along with barely a clue.
Lambert was the one who kept people talking: with his guyliner, his black-painted fingernails, his stunning vocal range, and his penchant for stage drama and turning songs on their heads.
During the ensuing months, Chen and Elfiki had become friends, with Chen learning that in addition to possessing a razor-sharp wit and a penchant for practical jokes, Elfiki harbored a competitive edge almost as deep-seated as her own. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
All songs share a penchant for incisive, thoughtful lyricism, but those words may be screamed over rowdy feedback in "Bootstraps" or catcalled in a dirty falsetto on bluesy tracks like "Company. Heather Browne: Drew Grow Brings Rock and Roll Salvation
Both men shared a penchant for cherubs - dozens adorn the chandeliers, mirrors, and garden statuettes.
You may have guessed that I have a penchant for love poems, well I suppose I'm just an old romantic at heart.
His penchant for big questions, his lucid and often limpid prose, and his willingness to pose unconventional and unpopular arguments have combined to make him a must-read.
Alexander begins the film as a socially awkward scientist, bumbling and sweet, with a penchant for pocket watches and professorish vested suits.
His penchant for risk-taking pays off with the audience.
Then, it was granted to a special breed of psychopath with a penchant for leather jackets and flared trousers.
Japanese knotweed with a penchant for long lunches. Times, Sunday Times
That is a perennial weakness of princes - a penchant for false-hearted favourites.
The latter tag refers to the West African rhythm associated with world-music star Youssou N'Dour, one of Ndiaye's patrons, and both terms highlight Ndiaye's penchant for easygoing tunes and unplugged instruments. In concert: Yoro Ndiaye at Millennium Stage
It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard.
Not that he's an avid trainspotter with a penchant for the Mallard or the Flying Scotsman.
His penchant for mergers and acquisitions has been evident in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
The French have long delighted in calling the English "rosbifs", due to our penchant for Sunday roasts.
For anyone with a penchant for the traditional accordion based Parisian music known as musette and the unique song style of the French music hall, CathNews
Individual values were then augmented by the Zone System without risk of retracing the Pictorialist's penchant for broad painterly strokes.
Baseball, which has a penchant for antonomasia, has dubbed players the "Sultan of Swat" (Babe Ruth), "The Georgia Peach" (Ty Cobb), and the "Iron Horse" (Lou Gehrig).
Its penchant for political correctness, polit-speak, distortion or the playing down of unpleasant facts (about immigration for instance), etc. The Times Literary Supplement
From high-end jewelry artisans to women with a penchant for being "choosy," the latest crop of Atlanta designers proves that building a business can start at home. The latest WWD Headlines
Apart from our penchant for ritual, in matters of corruption it is our fondness of explaining and excusing the crime that is most visible.
As the Devil is ordinarily by no means wanting in shrewdness, the omission might perhaps be set down to his credit on the score of charity, but for his abominable taste in matters of diabolical vertûe, as shown by his penchant for sanguinary signatures to all compacts and bonds for bad behavior made with or exacted by him, in the course of his "regular dealings" with mankind, and hence it must be considered a clear case of ignorance or oversight, that this test, compared to which there is toleration for boils even, was not applied. Life in the Rocky Mountains
On the stump and in press conferences, the former speaker of the House has a penchant for seasoning his speech with words that end in -ly. Breaking News: CBS News
He's a wandering laborer with a penchant for black-out drinking, saddled with a blackmailing alcoholic groupie played by Thomas Mitchell.
I also had long hair, ripped jeans, and a penchant for flannelette shirts.
It may share Shakespeare's penchant for combining vulgar humour with intellectual high-mindedness, but this drama of sapphic intrigue in late 19 th-century New England is somewhat over-written.
His penchant for fast cars, castles, horses, jets, yachts, game lodges and bling is well chronicled.
Finally, Mr. ARTHUR HATHERTON, as _Lob_, the host of the party, a kind of hoary old _Puck_ who had a _penchant_ for filling his house every Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917
His penchant for detail and symbolism are catnip to obsessive fans who read between every line, scrutinize every frame and pick apart the show's cryptic teasers.
Douglas in particular had a penchant for extending the limits of his instrument, using toots, whistles and breathing noises in some of his improvisational work.
His penchant for bright colours - orange and yellow are favourites - only add to his reputation for excitement and flamboyance.
Worst of all, though, was his penchant for kerb-crawling around Baghdad. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
If Janeites tend towards punctiliousness, Dickensians have a penchant for the jocose.
With his ability to abbreviate his backswing and his penchant for quick rallies, Wimbledon offers him more opportunity.
His rough-hewn marble sculptures combine a deep feeling for the inherent beauty of the material with a penchant for subtle allusion.
Because of my proclivities and my penchant for makeup, the straight community misrecognizes me as often, if not more so, as they do my butch counterparts.
One of his seminal articles in this period was published in a book in honor of Mises — that supposedly washed-up old man who just so happened to have a penchant for speaking truth to power.
Though the clothes aren't billed as unisex, Wentz, a guy known for his penchant for dark eyeliner and matching nail polish, is partial to one of his word-search-emblazoned hoodies. Fall Out Boy Wentz springs up in Nordstrom
He had a penchant for framing shots through the spokes of the nearest wagon wheel, to break up the visual monotony of a scene.
A penchant for flames ... war-watching and assiduousness! Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope
He comes across as a burly, brusque man with a penchant for cowboy hats and sunglasses.
With a patricianly beautiful wife whose scholarship matched his own and whose frigidity allowed him to indulge a perilous penchant for undergraduate girls, he couldn’t lose. TOO MANY MURDERS
The state had been erected upon lessons learned through centuries trying to maintain peace within an insular acephalous tribal society with a penchant for infighting and was most functional when it resembled a "loose" confederation in which legislative and judicial powers were pushed down to the local level - a concept analogous to America's states' rights. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
You can like or dislike her confrontational timbre and penchant for extremes. Times, Sunday Times
Also had a couple of storming, skilful bursts up the park, although his penchant for play-acting rankled throughout and eventually earned him a booking.
Known for his penchant for coining apt words and phrases, Tukey is credited with inventing the word bit (binary digit) in 1946, and he was responsible for the first use of several terms in mathematical statistics.
In recent days there has been a great deal of ill-informed comment about our Deputy Prime Minister’s penchant for the game of croquet; he has suffered obloquy and had contumely poured over him – and dried contumely is a devil to brush off one’s jacket. The Bonkers Code
He's also got a penchant for shoe lifts to add to his 5 foot 7 inch height.
We had occasional visits from Brian's daughter Melody, who spoke mostly Finnish and had a penchant for the word "caca" that fit right into the Rudy mode. Robbie Gennet: Before you can Taste the Love, you first have to Make the Love
He also has a penchant for catchy one-liners, ideally suited to television.
His remarkable piano recitals and penchant for drawing detailed pictures are characteristic of someone with the condition.
Byatt admittedly isn't in this league, but she does have a penchant for sentences with lots of commas.
She was just going to say she was manhandled by a porter with a penchant for egg sandwiches and, if that didn't work, threaten to have their royal appointment removed.
The MP in question had had his denial accepted, clearly without the slightest suggestion that the police might take an interest in his penchant. Times, Sunday Times
Earl Brooks used his skill as an arcanist to hide his penchant for killing. Am I Missing Something?
Abraham had a penchant for being critical and had no hesitation in publicly chastising his colleagues, regardless of their rank or position.
He seems to have developed a penchant for all things good, wholesome and American.
His most recent project, a family home in Oporto in Portugal, demonstrates this penchant with bold and colourful details inspired by Transformers.
His penchant for tall, rakish women and strong, musclebound men is alive and well and still living in New York.
While still a teenager, Andrews's records quickly established him as an innovative vocal stylist with a penchant for romantic ballads and the blues.
This is not about some fool of a Secret Service agent jumping the gun on an innocuous online comment, or an airline security officer with a penchant for bullyragging 55 year old women.
Photographs show her as glamorous with a penchant for fashions with a nipped-in waist and large hats.
But if you've got a penchant for a particular dancer, get there early so you can put your name on the list, as each dancer has a limited number of nightly performances.
One indication that the new minting machinery almost immediately and most dramatically increased Abd al-Rahman's penchant for silver, especially kaldar, confiscation comes from the British Agent's communiqué from Qandahar dated January 4, 1891. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
They have an equal and opposite penchant for conspiracy theories.
Consumers still have a penchant to overinsure, and most policies still provide catastrophic coverage. Markets and Majorities
Western popular prints and Soviet official art both displayed a penchant for landscapes, flower pieces, still lifes and genre.
My penchant for romance has made me a serial dater in the past and will now account for the dating thrill that can be achieved in the comfort of one's pajamas: matchmaking.
It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list.
And he fears updating the Copyright Act will blow up because of the Tory's short-term penchant for slogans and electioneering. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Consisting of a scant 17 lines, only 3 of which contain more than 3 words, the poem displays her penchant for brevity and enjambment.
Part of this is down to his penchant for boasting about his morning run on social media. Times, Sunday Times
Dixwell throughout the review questions the validity of George's logic and his penchant for ‘droll syllogism.’
A penchant for setting oneself apart and above mere mortals.
My academic studies were also very influential - I devoured Faulkner and Shakespeare, and I love their penchants for violence and suspense.
Despite the brash blonde beehive and penchant for attention-seeking clothes and make-up, there's no way you could mistake Jenny for an airhead - which must make her choice of title for the new show ironic.
It is easy to draw a comparison between the two - both artists have releases on the same label and both have a penchant for producing deep, heavy jazz-house numbers with swingy beats and cabaret appeal.
the Irish have a penchant for blarney
Organisers and festivalgoers alike will be hoping Edinburgh's penchant for torrential rain subsides when the thespians land.
Coming from a family of middling rank, he received little formal education, but soon developed a penchant for self-improvement and an ambition to better himself.
As dismaying as the psychotic penchant for very small dogs is, a coming penchant for very small robot dogs will be even worse.
If he interviews well with prospective teams and shows a penchant for receiving out of the backfield, he'll go high in the draft.
The invention could manage the electronic order of penchant and sale to accomplish the transaction successfully.
Nor does the island's penchant for equality stop at work - sharing.
Calcutta! and as the unapologetic joker known for his spanking jones a penchant well-explicated in the play. 'Tynan': A show to please the critic
The Mexican penchant for passionate fun is everywhere as entire families play soccer on the sand, volleyball in the water, swimming, inner-tubing, sand-castling, sunbathing, eating, drinking in a friendly atmosphere. Walking the walk, talking the talk - a wee malarkey about Melaque,
He was a large teddy bear of a parson, with a face mottled by a penchant for aqua vitae. GOODBYE CURATE
I hate being short and to top it off, I have a penchant for being attracted to very tall men.
Ahern told me he found those complaints more typical of the Irish penchant for begrudgery than serious social commentary.
The Englishman may be a quiet soul, but he has a renowned sense of humour and a penchant for practical jokes. Times, Sunday Times
However, these vast Roman vistas are processed through the Rococo penchant for grandiose ornamentation and are window dressing, pure decoration.
His eccentricities included a penchant for gigantic pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Python-esque.
Their performance of Mozart's Jupiter symphony was inevitably coloured by this association, not least because it was Constanze whose penchant for baroque counterpoint partly spurred Mozart's inclination towards fugal writing in his later years. Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Bolton – review
Given the Bushes 'penchant for contortions and distortions of facts and for presenting themselves as carbon copies of the Immaculate Conception, one has to wonder what the true nature of that aid's impulse to gather such material during Poppy's presidency for a later book writing really was; one also wonders what wrangling may have taken place behind the scenes prior to the birthing of this book by Doro? Isn't it scandalous--the Bushes thirst for Power & Self Advancement? Yes. Of Course it is!
A former White House chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush, Mr. Sununu described Mr. Gingrich as having a penchant for "self-aggrandizement" and "off-the-cuff thinking" that "is not what you want in a commander-in-chief. Tough Talk as Romney Takes Aim at Gingrich
On the stump and in press conferences, the former speaker of the House has a penchant for seasoning his speech with words that end in -ly. Breaking News: CBS News
His penchant for practical jokes was well known. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, he's a snappy dresser, with a penchant for Paul Smith suits and shirts, so his slippers would probably be hand-embroidered velvet.
These images do more than establish her clear penchant for race-bating. Sharron Angle's closing argument: It's us against them
Elvira's penchant for ascribing accents was spot-on; she wouldn't allow herself to be caught out. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
She plays a New York socialite and actress who is a lousy mother and has a penchant for good-looking young men.
The pictures show a country with a truly biased curriculum and a penchant for martyrdom.
Postmodern art's initial penchant toward video and television has created a marked backlash preoccupation with physical immediacy and in-your-face sensate experiences.
Yo-Yo is proud of the Sooners 'penchant for holding hands in huddles and throughout practices. USATODAY.com - Team chemistry has been key for Sooners
His web site also displays a rather remarkable congenital boastfulness and an penchant for unusual capitalization "We are a better Charter Fishing Boat than the Saltwater Sport Fishing Charter Boats on the East Coast and in the Florida Keys, including the fleet of Deep Sea Fishing Boats in Key West". Carl Safina: Shark Attacked, Media Bites Rosie O'Donnell
He definitely needs services," the psychologist, a red-faced man with round glasses and a penchant for mumbling in jargon, decided. "We just don't know what.
With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details.
Well, he's a goofball with a penchant for cracking idiotic quips during combat.
It is dangerous for economists to expand into measuring happiness among ‘potential smokers’ and other groups, given the profession's penchant for palling around with legislators and bureaucrats.
And her penchant for the birds has won her one of the highest accolades in wildlife circles. The Sun
Someday, Frances thought, I'm going to have to grow out of this penchant for fast, unpractical, masculine cars. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Today in Paris, the French president survived a Parliamentary vote of confidence over his plans to penchant for rip-roaring foreign policy deals shows no sign of halting. points out on FP this week, "rejoin" is an odd phrase for a country that contributes troops to NATO missions and shows up at all the big meetings and events. FP Passport
Those with a penchant for acting on the silver screen need not be disappointed.
His penchant is for the gargantuan – auto companies, school violence, capitalism, health care. My first encounter with Michael Moore
The other one was Jeffrey, a short pudgy guy with wire framed aviator glasses, bushy eyebrows and a penchant for wearing flip flops even when it was cold out.
Let's just say my husband doesn't share my penchant for house bling. Times, Sunday Times
A person whose penchant for ceding power to fellow plutocrats even less circumspect than himself might well, in this fabliau, have actually caused our present economic catastrophe. Ned Goldreyer: Walking the Last Mile to Recovery
It was a deft way of advancing his bona fides as a politically correct, postimperial Russian even while criticizing the Bush administration's penchant for unilateral action. A Conversation With Putin
The big question now is, do the 49ers have a QB on their roster — Shaun Hill, Alex Smith or Damon Huard — who can take advantage of Crabtree's skills, which include awesome run-after-catch ability and a penchant for outfighting defensive backs for most balls. Draft analysis: Jets trade up to No. 5 to select Mark Sanchez
Paying homage to some of the most genius moments in style, Brixton's penchant for schmick fedoras, boaters, golfing caps and the ilk, Brixton's products are pretty timeless. Lifelounge.com - Daily Goodness
Even ‘Somewhere’ is wonderfully fractured, featuring his penchant, often witnessed in live shows, for switching between amplified and unamplified playing across the changes, even mid-phrase.
Bet you didn't know I was a whizz knitter with a special penchant for fancy multi-coloured designs.
Tall and angular, with a penchant for driving fluently through the off side, the similarity bears scrutiny to a point. Times, Sunday Times
The latter tag refers to the West African rhythm associated with world-music star Youssou N'Dour, one of Ndiaye's patrons, and both terms highlight Ndiaye's penchant for easygoing tunes and unplugged instruments. In concert: Yoro Ndiaye at Millennium Stage
What you do need, though, is a penchant for the occult.
The French also have a penchant for pyramids with their croquembouche.
His penchant for exploitive obviousness is in full tow. GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 1/5.
The book tells a spellbinding story of a man with eccentricities that went well beyond a fascination with rocketry and included a penchant for the occult.
I have to admit that I grew a tough skin - and a penchant for talking back with my increasingly accentless English. Fernando Espuelas: My Journey From Sp*c to Sp*c
Never one to shy away from polemics, Gould was often criticized by other scientists for his penchant for staking debates in rather extreme terms, and sometimes caricaturing his opponents' positions.
Just ask its programming boss, an energetic philosophy graduate with a penchant for John Stuart Mill.
Somewhat of a hellion, Watts was held in check by his tight-knit community and his father's penchant for corporal punishment.
While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by GaudÃ's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life. Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution
A penchant for sentences with multiple negatives is one of the things that make jury instructions notoriously hard to understand.
The club's penchant for flattering only to deceive is now way beyond a joke. Times, Sunday Times
I accept this penchant may have developed as an offshoot from my dislike of thongs, but it's grown up big and strong into a whole new preference in itself.
Smith's affection for camp and penchant for mixing performance art and film transformed his screenings into happenings.
She had a penchant for oxford shirts, carefully tucked into her pinch pleated shirts or Bermuda shorts.
He remained committed to exploring his penchant for mordant wit, the celebration of the esoteric, the glorification of all things absurd.
Texans epitomize America's penchant for overconsumption, so much so that they've even coined their own phrase for superlarge portions: Texas-sized. The CO2 State
A self-confessed thrill seeker, the 35-year-old's latest penchant is motor racing.
He was not at his vintage best, to be sure, showing unusual nerves at the start of his innings as Australia looked to exploit his penchant for playing across full, straight balls with a high backlift, but when he survived a plumb-looking leg-before appeal on 61 and a dropped catch by Michael Clarke at extra cover on 66, it felt as if it might be his day. England Fails to Push Home Ashes Advantage
An auto rally driver with a penchant for crashing cars, Marko Milosevic owns a discotheque and several cafes in the town.
We're up here knocking about a little, partly to hunt, but mostly because I've a penchant, that is, a weakness for exploring out-of-the-way places. Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan
Throw in a sidekick or two, and a supervillain with a penchant for world domination, and you have yourself a show.
Brannon, a recent Columbia M.F.A. with a penchant for graphic design, may use paint, but one easily gets the sense that he is ill-disposed to brushwork.
The excitement extended to a penchant for ad-libbing. Times, Sunday Times
Gallas couldn't be a very useful addition to any squad, despite his penchant for embarking on sulks that are monumental even by the standards of the sniffiest French toddler. The Guardian World News
The concluding second movement maintains Stock's penchant for slow, deeply melancholy finales.
Not only does it show the contrast betwee Green Lanterns and their Nemeses – GLs are named for a symbol of hope, SCs for a purple little man with a twirly mustache and a penchant for Mass-Murder – but it also reinforces their ‘FEAR!’ theme, in that his is a name to be – FEARED! Green Lantern #19 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
His reported penchant for trimming films in the editing suite has earned him the nickname Harvey Scissorhands, and he was rumoured to have squabbled furiously with Martin Scorsese over Gangs of New York.
He had a penchant for framing shots through the spokes of the nearest wagon wheel, to break up the visual monotony of a scene.
I have discovered that wee Ying (same same Nit) also has a penchant for choccy with her Bolly and this explains the disappearance of the Mars bar destined for your oesophagus and beyond.
The crime, some suggested, was the logical culmination of certain pro-lifers 'apocalyptic rhetoric and their penchant for singling out particular individuals to calumniate. Red State Story
Tall and angular, with a penchant for driving fluently through the off side, the similarity bears scrutiny to a point. Times, Sunday Times
Pushing 60 but still displaying the sensibility of a naughty schoolboy, Waters displays a real penchant for smutty innuendo and an ever growing catalogue of euphemisms.
Primary vocalist Gareth Campesinos (the band has a Ramones-like penchant for pseudonyms) sounds like a stagier version of The Streets's Mike Skinner. The Michigan Daily
Leaving the reading, the technically sound aspects of her poetry - including a penchant for patient cadences and lengthy stanzas reminiscent of prose - were not the resounding aspects of the reading.
When Homo sapiens evolved onthe African Savannah, the ones a penchant for trying new horizonsprospered.
She thought his parlor humor and penchant for sarcasm showed a certain degree of immaturity.
But they also had a penchant for niggling and appeared very adept at winning penalties for laying on by effectively holding the tackler on top.
Both pictures salute the David Lynch school of film, with their penchant for blending reality with dreams.
A penchant for setting oneself apart and above mere mortals.
The penchant to extremes, paradoxicality, and irrationalism have become stereotypical characteristics of "Russianness". Post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine.
So he may just be able to track down a serial killer with a penchant for committing perfect murders.
We thought he was a great big fat squeaky-voiced cricketer with a tiresome penchant for laddish behaviour.

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