The young couple had a penchant for Italian restaurants and romantic films. From LearnThat.org.
The Irish have a penchant for blarney. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And he fears updating the Copyright Act will blow up because of the Tory's short-term penchant for slogans and electioneering. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Karamargin, a spokesman for Ms. Giffords, called her penchant for frugality. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
And might this be related to what others have termed our penchant for reliance on 'basic-level categories.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Phanerozoic fallacy] Reference
Writer Lionel Shriver writers recalls a penchant for writing long, febrile short stories and supporting unpopular political positions. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I may indeed be suffering from a "penchant" for Doubt, for skepticism. From Wordnik.com. [I Want To Believe...and to Doubt] Reference
"penchant" for anecdote, scholarly Canons with a weakness for Rum. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
"penchant" for the projection of such vague imaginative images as. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
Take the Dean camp's penchant for investing in campaign kitsch. From Wordnik.com. [Where Did the Money Go?] Reference
Obama has responded by hammering Clinton's penchant for secrecy. From Wordnik.com. [In A Spat Over Secrecy, Two Rivals Go Their Separate Ways] Reference
Collins's character has a phony tony accent and a penchant for plastic surgery. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
More often than not, Deutsch's penchant for showmanship serves his company well. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Outrageous] Reference
He was a pock-faced fat man with a penchant for razors, diamond rings, and women. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Mosley’s Easy Rawlins] Reference
Fat Wintour has never been, despite her penchant for red meat and mashed potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [She's Still In Vogue] Reference
Stansel is a lawyer with a decided penchant for suing on her own behalf (page 26). From Wordnik.com. [Trial By Fire At The Naacp] Reference
Then he turned his lifelong penchant for fantasizing to advantage and began to write. From Wordnik.com. [Tracking Mommy] Reference
Knowing her penchant for promotion, she just may hand out the handkerchiefs in advance. From Wordnik.com. [The Selling Of Jil Sander] Reference
Without encouragement, a child's gleeful penchant for experimentation becomes endangered. From Wordnik.com. [THE MIND OF AN INVENTOR] Reference
But Lopez's penchant for the hard line has earned him nicknames like the "Grand Inquisitor.". From Wordnik.com. [GM: It's Rocky in Recovery] Reference
Vittal, a mild-mannered man with a penchant for philosophy and vegetarian food, seems unfazed. From Wordnik.com. [Shame, The Virtual Weapon] Reference
Flamboyant and arrogant, with a penchant for exaggerating his achievements, Hatfill intrigued them. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunt For The Anthrax Killer] Reference
Combine those pastimes with a penchant for loud music, and you have a recipe for long - term hearing loss. From Wordnik.com. [The President's Got A New Aid] Reference
Obama has shown a penchant for splitting the difference, for finding the middle way on tough policy issues. From Wordnik.com. [An Inconvenient Truth Teller] Reference
For her part, Alana pledges to mock her ex's penchant for women whose age and IQ are "in the low two-digits.". From Wordnik.com. [Shopping In Syndication Hell] Reference
Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart) is a Harvard law grad, confident in the courtroom, with a penchant for short skirts. From Wordnik.com. [High Heels, Low Esteem] Reference
Lyrically, he combines his penchant for Misty Mountain escapism with the realities of war and governmental hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [OOOH, YEAH. OOOH-OOH, YEAH.] Reference
In the 1980s Imelda Marcos's penchant for designer shoes defined the excesses of her husband Ferdinand's dictatorship. From Wordnik.com. [GLORIA'S LAST STAND?] Reference
Fed up with Wahid's penchant not to compromise or consult with parliament, the Islamic parties now are openly pro-Megawati. From Wordnik.com. [Indonesia: 'He's Finished'] Reference
Their penchant for developing economies will hasten financial-market development in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Power Brokers] Reference
We may exhibit pride, greed or a penchant for denying obvious facts, but such shortcomings do not make us tragic, only ordinary. From Wordnik.com. [How the Republican Party Lost Its Way] Reference
It isn't just their odor of exploitation or their penchant for selling fiction as fact: we've become all too accustomed to that. From Wordnik.com. [Racing The News Crews] Reference
Other European intelligence and police services have learned to appreciate the Italians 'particular penchant for tape-recording suspects. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Italy's Sleeper Cells] Reference
She was uneasy with reporters, and at times her penchant for perfection undercut the spontaneity and quick reflexes campaign life demands. From Wordnik.com. [Saying Farewell To A Futile Campaign] Reference
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