Politicians have a penchant for going round the houses when answering tough questions. |
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Yet beneath his seeming penchant for disorganization was a determination to see that the important goals were achieved. |
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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. |
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A penchant for sentences with multiple negatives is one of the things that make jury instructions notoriously hard to understand. |
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His penchant for tall, rakish women and strong, musclebound men is alive and well and still living in New York. |
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But Henry has a penchant for gopher balls, and his history reveals that if he is overused, his results drop. |
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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. |
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We thought he was a great big fat squeaky-voiced cricketer with a tiresome penchant for laddish behaviour. |
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He began his political career as a Marxist with a penchant for sending his followers to beat up rival groups. |
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The penchant for late night-long drives has come as a boon for pushcart vendors selling a variety of ice-creams. |
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History in Edinburgh has a peculiar penchant for throwing together people, politics and passion. |
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An esteemed veteran actor with a penchant for the unpredictable arrived and sat under a painting of fairies in a field. |
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It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard. |
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The pictures show a country with a truly biased curriculum and a penchant for martyrdom. |
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Alexander begins the film as a socially awkward scientist, bumbling and sweet, with a penchant for pocket watches and professorish vested suits. |
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Randall, with his silly-looking mullet and penchant for pyramid-scheme businesses, bumbles along with barely a clue. |
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I mean to say that he doesn't have the cavalier attitude and penchant for gallows humour that a lot of his colleagues do. |
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The overall effect puts the penchant on this side of the Atlantic for furry dice and tree-shaped car fresheners in some kind of context. |
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He also has a penchant for catchy one-liners, ideally suited to television. |
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Since Bangaloreans have a penchant for good theatre, a stage production of the popular musical should be good news to theatregoers. |
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So when did he discover his penchant for playing bad boys and dangerous libertines? |
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Bet you didn't know I was a whizz knitter with a special penchant for fancy multi-coloured designs. |
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Add to that a penchant for Jamaican riddims and dub production and you've got an incongruous amalgam that works amazingly well. |
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Smith's affection for camp and penchant for mixing performance art and film transformed his screenings into happenings. |
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Once notorious for his penchant for cross-dressing, he says his party days are long gone. |
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Glover, who has a penchant for playing strange individuals, uses this opportunity not to inhabit a genuine character, but to create a caricature. |
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The most important of these tendencies are a deep passion for equality itself and a penchant for independent action. |
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She has developed a penchant for painting her immediate surroundings and has proven to be a deft limner of the domestic interior. |
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Somewhat of a hellion, Watts was held in check by his tight-knit community and his father's penchant for corporal punishment. |
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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. |
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The penchant for sports wear among middle-class youth resided on an almost voyeuristic fascination with American hip-hop subcultures. |
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The Respect MP, an avowed champagne socialist, has a penchant for good food. |
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My friend Ryan, for instance, has a penchant for overcomplicating everything, his own sentences included. |
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The girls share an awkward, boxy physical presence, highlighted by their penchant for vintage clothes and clompy boots. |
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She has a penchant for histrionics, but her dramatic flair is a large part of her charm. |
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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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He comes across as a burly, brusque man with a penchant for cowboy hats and sunglasses. |
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Individual values were then augmented by the Zone System without risk of retracing the Pictorialist's penchant for broad painterly strokes. |
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Throw in a sidekick or two, and a supervillain with a penchant for world domination, and you have yourself a show. |
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Paterson had a penchant for Woodbines and putting gnarly blood red nails into food mixes with scant regard for hygiene. |
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He started breeding his own horses and combined his penchant for the palomino coloring with his choice of horse breeds. |
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She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal. |
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He's a wandering laborer with a penchant for black-out drinking, saddled with a blackmailing alcoholic groupie played by Thomas Mitchell. |
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Well, he's a goofball with a penchant for cracking idiotic quips during combat. |
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He was a rough diamond with a penchant for breakfast in bed and pin collecting. |
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His rough-hewn marble sculptures combine a deep feeling for the inherent beauty of the material with a penchant for subtle allusion. |
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He is loved internationally for his academic assiduity and penchant for historical research. |
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I bet the only people who were glad that they got the game on pay-per-view reside in East London and have a penchant for jellied eels. |
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America's emotional attachment to flags attests the country's penchant for patriotic spectacle. |
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I hate being short and to top it off, I have a penchant for being attracted to very tall men. |
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Berlinski notes Dembski's extensive academic training, but overlooks Dembski's documented penchant for invidious comparisons. |
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He's also got a penchant for shoe lifts to add to his 5 foot 7 inch height. |
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If Janeites tend towards punctiliousness, Dickensians have a penchant for the jocose. |
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She had a penchant for oxford shirts, carefully tucked into her pinch pleated shirts or Bermuda shorts. |
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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. |
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The concluding second movement maintains Stock's penchant for slow, deeply melancholy finales. |
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Apart from our penchant for ritual, in matters of corruption it is our fondness of explaining and excusing the crime that is most visible. |
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Organisers and festivalgoers alike will be hoping Edinburgh's penchant for torrential rain subsides when the thespians land. |
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Having a penchant for natural fabrics and dyes, he uses man-made fibers and chemical dyes as well. |
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That penchant for dressing bald rats in sequins and leather is a different story altogether. |
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Seems they've accidentally disrupted the plans of a corrupt G-man with a penchant for Pagliacci named Cornell. |
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Byatt admittedly isn't in this league, but she does have a penchant for sentences with lots of commas. |
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With his ability to abbreviate his backswing and his penchant for quick rallies, Wimbledon offers him more opportunity. |
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Both pictures salute the David Lynch school of film, with their penchant for blending reality with dreams. |
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Over the past couple of weeks I've developed a penchant for quails eggs with mini gherkins, dipped in rock salt. |
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His remarkable piano recitals and penchant for drawing detailed pictures are characteristic of someone with the condition. |
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He seems to have developed a penchant for all things good, wholesome and American. |
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I have any number of fairly prurient interests, among them, a penchant for gossip columns. |
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Abraham had a penchant for being critical and had no hesitation in publicly chastising his colleagues, regardless of their rank or position. |
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A self-confessed thrill seeker, the 35-year-old's latest penchant is motor racing. |
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Eventually he led me to a semi-literate jewellery salesman with wide-set eyes and a penchant for gold chains. |
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A penchant for disputatiousness has led to numerous quarrels with fellow radicals, including Foreman. |
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He also has a penchant for whoopee cushions, so that meetings begin with a definite air of farce. |
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Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment. |
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Alpine pennycress is one of these plants with a penchant for sucking up metals and storing them. |
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So he may just be able to track down a serial killer with a penchant for committing perfect murders. |
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Ahern told me he found those complaints more typical of the Irish penchant for begrudgery than serious social commentary. |
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The Earl's penchant is for real tennis, the sport through which he met his wife. |
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The working masochists came off as bellyachers and had a penchant for making people listen to their workplace war stories. |
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However, these vast Roman vistas are processed through the Rococo penchant for grandiose ornamentation and are window dressing, pure decoration. |
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Not that he's an avid trainspotter with a penchant for the Mallard or the Flying Scotsman. |
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His tendency to represent himself combined with a penchant for a badly timed wisecrack at the judge have sealed his fate time after time. |
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Those with a penchant for acting on the silver screen need not be disappointed. |
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As well as a love of vegetables he has a penchant for historical documentaries. |
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They share a penchant for sticking their snouts up the backside of tyrants and then spewing verbal bilge. |
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Anyone with a penchant for numbers can have a go at guessing the number of coffee beans in a huge jar on the day to receive a prize. |
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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. |
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Photographs show her as glamorous with a penchant for fashions with a nipped-in waist and large hats. |
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Are you a 13-16 year old girl with a penchant for acting and a future as bright as the sun itself? |
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The track exemplifies Twine's penchant for crafting beautiful tuneage that struggles through a software-erected forcefield. |
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He had a penchant for framing shots through the spokes of the nearest wagon wheel, to break up the visual monotony of a scene. |
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He remained committed to exploring his penchant for mordant wit, the celebration of the esoteric, the glorification of all things absurd. |
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His penchant for fast cars, castles, horses, jets, yachts, game lodges and bling is well chronicled. |
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You may have guessed that I have a penchant for love poems, well I suppose I'm just an old romantic at heart. |
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The youngest is Pfeni, a travel writer who never stays in one place for long, and has a penchant for unattainable men. |
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This year's federal election campaign still suggests a penchant for refusing to confront reality. |
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His eccentricities included a penchant for gigantic pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Python-esque. |
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She plays a New York socialite and actress who is a lousy mother and has a penchant for good-looking young men. |
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Just ask its programming boss, an energetic philosophy graduate with a penchant for John Stuart Mill. |
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It's kind of like the way neuroscientists have a penchant for naming neurotransmitters after video-game characters. |
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Consisting of a scant 17 lines, only 3 of which contain more than 3 words, the poem displays her penchant for brevity and enjambment. |
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But how else do you explain her penchant for dressing like a drag queen? |
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The Bulgarian has a penchant for going to ground easily under challenges. |
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With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details. |
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This classy rebuke shows that despite his penchant for silly social media, Vin Diesel is still not some one you want to mess with. |
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The rest of the time he looked less like a hero with mystical powers and more like a well-intentioned English teacher with a penchant for fell-walking. |
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Natural political ability and penchant for corny dad humor aside, Anthony Weiner has a true talent for lying. |
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With the Western penchant for turning any tragedy into a tourist attraction, today, the Historical Shipwreck Trail takes you past as many as 25 known wrecks. |
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No, Pickert isn't some persnickety homeowner with a penchant for one-of-a-kind wares, but rather a remodeler trying to do things the environmentally friendly way. |
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Notoriously single-minded, the erstwhile enfant terrible of the Belgian art world is a Renaissance man, despite his penchant for drenching everything in body fluids. |
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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. |
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His penchant for formalwear helped, but it had more to do with him pulling a party together and then retreating from it. |
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He showed a precocious penchant for baseball and music, fronting a high-school band called Johnny and the Jaywalkers. |
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The man elected chairman that opening night was a retired Brigadier with a pedigree as long as your arm, and a penchant for shouting orders at subordinates. |
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Then there is his infuriating penchant for gratuitously offering compromises before a policy debate has even begun. |
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With a taut, shrunken face, a penchant for cocaine injections, and a fondness for disguise and deception, Holmes is his own Hyde. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Lozada is known to reality-TV fans as an attractive bully with a penchant for throwing wine bottles and stiletto pumps. |
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Goldwyn's penchant for playing powerful white guys who can't keep it in their pants should keep him indefinitely employed. |
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Considering the penchant Canadian filmmakers have for taboo sexual subjects, it was only a matter of time before a Canadian movie was set in a massage parlour. |
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Even as a young man, however, Jekyll had a penchant for base pleasures. |
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Postmodern art's initial penchant toward video and television has created a marked backlash preoccupation with physical immediacy and in-your-face sensate experiences. |
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In the uncomfortable footage, an incoherent Lamar spits incomprehensible verses about his drug abuse and penchant for infidelity. |
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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. |
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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. |
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In a true moment of TMI, Dash shared with Williams her penchant for sleeping with potential husbands on the first date. |
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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. |
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Gone are the days when crimplene flares were modelled by vacuous looking male models with an unnatural penchant for Aran knit cardigans and neck ties. |
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A man of powerful intellect and great energy, Casey was an unreconstructed Cold Warrior with a penchant for action and a fascination with covert operations. |
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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. |
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Reality-show deal aside, Weeks has a penchant for talking about her poverty. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Like Beck, Jones is a raconteur with a penchant for dramatizing things to comic effect. |
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Teresa, tempted to stick her tongue out at her men for making disparaging remarks about women and their penchant for silly names, opted to turn her nose up at them. |
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Probably something to do with their reputation as bad boys with a penchant for walking around completely starkers, save for some socks to cover their modesty. |
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With his handlebar moustache and penchant for multi-coloured bow ties, flamboyant Waterford architect Oliver Dempsey is used to standing out in the crowd. |
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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. |
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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. |
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While still a teenager, Andrews's records quickly established him as an innovative vocal stylist with a penchant for romantic ballads and the blues. |
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His account of his road trip has an endearingly amateurish quality-not least because of the author's penchant for mixed metaphors and overwrought prose. |
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I have discovered that wee Ying also has a penchant for choccy with her Bolly and this explains the disappearance of the Mars bar destined for your oesophagus and beyond. |
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A bird with a penchant for 17 th-century Dutch art has paid the ultimate price for flying into a museum gallery and pecking a hole in a masterpiece. |
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He has a penchant for writing and has penned a few hundred poems. |
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We've all encountered characters with a penchant for telling tall tales. |
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Both women had a penchant for people with titles, even spurious ones. |
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Although written like a novel, contemporary material is extensively used to bring out the 19th century penological penchant for capital punishment. |
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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. |
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Affectionate and devoted to their owners, they exhibit a healthy dose of impishness, a penchant for instinctual problem solving, and a finely developed sense of humor. |
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The artist's penchant for manipulating what is instinctual is profound. |
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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. |
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I also had long hair, ripped jeans, and a penchant for flannelette shirts. |
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Gone are the days when crimplene flares were modelled by vacuous looking male models with an unnatural penchant for Aran-knit cardigans and neck ties. |
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The French also have a penchant for pyramids with their croquembouche. |
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Could it be the administration's penchant for numeric funny business? |
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Ever since the character with the penchant for third-person self-references came on the scene, they say the show has become less inventive and more generically cute. |
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A penchant for hugs and kisses make this declawed cat uniquely affectionate. |
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But with a penchant for snowshoe hares, lynx thrive in the expansive boreal forests of Alaska and central Canada where hares are most abundant. |
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However, he soon becomes disenchanted with her British accent and her penchant for strange footwear. |
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For example, snapping turtles are used by police to find underwater corpses because of their penchant for dead flesh, he said. |
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Swinburne is often a very discerning critic in spite of his penchant for purple prose. |
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The Gothic penchant for wearing skins became fashion in Constantinople, which was heavily denounced by conservatives. |
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Pratchett was well known for his penchant for wearing large, black fedora hats, as seen on the inside back covers of most of his books. |
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The show's earliest pieces, three all-black canvases from 1973, inaugurated Stamm's penchant for near-threatening, bladelike constructions. |
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Swifts, house martins and sand martins share the swallow's penchant for aerial artistry. |
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Cassandra believed that in the interest of tact and Jane's penchant for forthrightness, these details should be destroyed. |
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Jaffe attributes the long wake-up call to the Army's penchant for big-ticket equipment designed for big wars. |
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Do these cultural texts take part in a reverse discourse against the homogenizing penchant of Latinidad? |
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This helps explain the growing penchant for fish sauce and shrimp paste and for tempeh as a more flavorful kin of tofu. |
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Moreover, Strauss shared Eisenhower's penchant for secrecy, while Eisenhower shared the AEC chairman's mistrust of the Soviet Union. |
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With a 6-foot frame and a penchant for Hawaiian shirts and puka shells, he was well-known and popular. |
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The CIA has a penchant for such hilarious and sometimes depraved schemes. |
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In a sense, it's symbolic of Dubai's wider rebirth fuelled by mass trade, aviation, and today's penchant for even glitzier tourism. |
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That pretty much sums up the shock-haired, one-liner maestro with the penchant for eye-popping shirts and his skewiff humourist agenda. |
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Even discounting their penchant for histrionics, the Left parties ate crow like rarely before. |
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As a cyclist, with an unfortunate penchant for weak innuendo, I prefer to begin my working day sweatily breathless. |
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Distinct lack of hair and a penchant for string vests, earrings and leather. |
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A penchant, as one character notes, for being a control freak. |
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The name may conjure up images of a pouting, raven-haired songstress with a penchant for extravagant shopping, but you'd be wrong. |
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The wrinkly club boss with a long-standing penchant for Speedos, is regulary snapped letting it all hang out. |
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Mental-health clinicians typically diagnose kids with these problems as having either conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder, a penchant to defy authority. |
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Throw in a penchant for pantoums and other formal poems, and Sylvan reveals herself as an immensely creative force, one seemingly only limited by her imagination. |
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Watch this film if you have a penchant for soppy tear-jerkers. |
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Owner Mona is ably assisted by offsider Bert and the wonderful receptionist Gulliver the cockatoo with a penchant for perfect human mimicry of 'Can I help you? |
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It'll be interesting to see if time has dulled that fearsome edge and whether singer Angelo Moore still has a penchant for playing in the near nuddy. |
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Her penchant for making the hardest rap songs literally singable is something she attributes to the same people who so frequently reach out for her services. |
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Yes there would be big defeats, and yes, cages would be rattled, especially given the media's penchant for making coaches accountable and sackable at a finger-click. |
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He is the only person that has that peculiar something called 'audience appeal' in sufficient quality to defy the popular penchant for movies that talk. |
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Crow, an imposing, stocky man with a penchant for wearing duffel coats and flat caps, was a larger-than-life character who had no qualms about confronting politicians. |
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His avuncular manner and penchant for the occasional spoonerism endeared him to football fans, for if ever there was a man who wore his heart on his sleeve, it was he. |
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Curriculum Vitae elevates Yoel Hoffmann's penchant for mingling real and invented life to a new pitch, absorbing his entire life story into what masquerades as a novel. |
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With its quirky, minor-key tonality and its penchant for psychedelic jams, it's very easy for listeners to think they've gotten the band pegged early on. |
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A mile down the road is the Palea Delana, a fashionable bar with long-legged dancing girls where Marko can satisfy his penchant for attractive women. |
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But the album delves further into the quartet's penchant for psychedelic rock and country inspired by Sahm and Meyers' work in the Sir Douglas Quintet. |
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And all reflect Bontecou's odd penchant for mixing feminine with masculine and hybridizing attributes of the natural with those of the machine-made, and the machine itself. |
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Yet, considering his penchant for poetic language, perhaps it's no surprise that the young Chuck is prone to soothing his battered fists round the back of a fretboard. |
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