Sentence examples for Great penchant from inspiring English sources

I used to have a great penchant for lame ducks.

"He's got a great penchant for bringing guys with him.

The communist NPA has an even greater penchant for using children in its ranks.

But the Baby Bell companies showed a greater penchant for consolidation than for competition, and most upstart local phone carriers decided to focus on serving business customers rather than consumers.

The findings are the first to suggest a greater penchant for cannibalism in invasive populations compared with native ones.

If immaturity or lack of judgment were the only problem, however, one would expect that children, whose brains are at an even earlier stage of development, would have an equal or greater penchant for risk-taking, says Kristina Caudle, a neuroscientist at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City who led the study.

The inner circle might be willing nascent liberals and capitalists, but they are held back by the Great Leader's penchant to kill off members of his inner circle on the slightest suspicion of disloyalty.

What remains unchanged is Mr. Karp's penchant for great ingredients.

But he will not be remembered for his numbers as much as his penchant for great theater.

None of this sits well with Carter's penchant for great-man narratives.

Her marvelous still lifes, portraits and self-portraits from the late 1920s and early '30s owe a debt to Beckmann's muscular paint handling and spatial contortions, which she modulated with her own penchant for greater formal and psychological acuity.