Ubiquitous this fall in fashion ads and editorials, this sultry but disciplined style is also the beauty world's expression of a new formality, evinced of late in peplum suits and structured bags, and in the penchant of Manhattan's bright young things for elaborate dining out.
I suspect that the answer may be related to the imperative for membership growth inherent in the voluntary organization and reinforced by our culture's ideal of bigger is better as well as in the penchant among many church bodies to reduce the rich complexity of the faith down to the conversion and saving of souls.
Owners are hoping to cash in on the penchant of new, extraordinarily wealthy collectors from Russia, Asia and the Middle East for paying record prices for whatever strikes their fancy.
A luxuriantly mustached British gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, reproved Fleming in a 1950s letter for Bond's "rather deplorable taste in firearms" — in particular the penchant of the early Bond for a Beretta pistol, which Mr. Boothroyd, later the model for Major Boothroyd, Bond's secret service armorer, described as "a ladies' gun".
Bush's rehabilitation can be chalked up in part to the penchant to give lambasted presidents good marks when they are safely out of the White House and can do no more harm and in bigger part to the calculated assault on Obama.
The downright creepy Dress Sexy at My Funeral, from 2000, is one of his better-known cases in point; the penchant for al fresco sex exhibited by Callahan's narrator continues on this album's fine cut, Spring.
Set aside, for a moment, the reports of sexual assault in Zuccotti Park and the penchant for public urination.
But even as time is saved in that fashion, the penchant for more pitching changes means more commercials and longer games.
At some points, while admiring his gift for rallying a crowd, they sought to rein in his penchant for over-the-top antipolitician talk.
For example, one of the most persistent afflictions in American organizations is the penchant to make formal announcements.
As Mrs. Malaprop is moved to advise at one point, "One should not anticipate the past," and the Acting Company is very much grounded in the present penchant for buffoonery as it turns its revival of Sheridan's 1775 comedy "The Rivals" into a pleasant little romp, even if it occasionally sacrifices some of the play's subtleties in favor of the broader humor.
