Sentence examples for Characteristic penchant from inspiring English sources

In Singaporeans' characteristic penchant for corporate-style acronyms, the milestone is being called SG50: a tidy shorthand that masks the rumblings of discontent the government is facing — and fighting.

For Saddam Hussein, a teen-aged assassin who led his splinter faction of the Arab Baath Party to power in a ruthless July 30 , 1968 coup, the pursuit of physical power and military might has been as much a characteristic as his penchant for security.

One of Bond's most memorable characteristics is his penchant for martinis "shaken, not stirred," a line first uttered by Sean Connery in 1962's "Dr. No".

He quickly established a handful of interpretive characteristics, among them a penchant for letting Chopin's nuanced melodies sing sweetly over the rumbling, chromatic accompaniments.

Published in 1983, it displays Mr. Nordan's characteristic lyric vernacular and his penchant for narrative that is swampy brew of sexual yearning, death, guilt and grotesquerie.

Bronkhorst (2006) argues that this penchant is a characteristic "episteme" of Indian thought in the early centuries of the first millennium CE. 31.

The most disturbing characteristic, however, remains the president's penchant for choosing inexperienced national security officials as top foreign policy advisors.

Among the appealing characteristics of her songs is her penchant for packing as much illuminating detail as possible into each verse and chorus.

This episode also brought out his most alarming and sometimes absurd characteristic, the Cassandra complex coupled with a penchant for Delphic utterance.

As the show is quick to point out, the real unifying characteristic that threads the work together is a penchant for using local experiences and histories as a lens through which we can view global issues.

A winning background and a penchant for teaching trumped all other characteristics, he said.