The Italian menu hews to tradition — along the lines of arancini and chicken scarpariello — but most of what we sampled had a certain flair and penchant for authenticity (the kitchen is overseen by Carmine Paglia, formerly of Polpo, in Greenwich, Conn).. To start came a little antipasti trio, on the house: a swirl of milky ricotta, fat green olives and fiery, full-bodied caponata.
Only Ghana were able to carry the torch, before they came across a certain Uruguayan with a penchant for controversy in the quarter-finals.
2 Regent's Park Road NW1, +44 (0)20-7485 2206, efdss.org Aiming to dispel the myth that jazz is only for people of a certain age with a penchant for saying "nice", The Vortex brings contemporary jazz to Dalston with seven evening performances a week.
(Cycling fans without a penchant for a certain kind of French literature may skip the next paragraph. I would probably skip it myself as I am among your number).
Mr. Rioult's penchant for a certain kind of old-fashioned modern dance style (heroic jumps, legs flung high to the side with flexed feet, women hanging off men's bodies) can translate into a fluent sweep of dance and eye-catching formations.
He's written more pages of Batman than nearly any other person on the planet and is even responsible for creating a certain villain who has a penchant for breaking Bruce Wayne's back (and was recently featured in the latest Bat-flick, The Dark Knight Rises).
He wanted the female members of chengguan — China's burly enforcers of urban order, feared and despised for their capricious crackdowns and penchant for violence — to convey a certain impression to a clutch of onlookers.
A certain cynicism, though, accompanied it, given the Education Department's penchant for closing large high schools that can be depicted as failures.
As in The Tango Lesson, this film shows Potter's penchant for stories about attractive women of a certain age who fall for exotic men, although Yes is by far the superior work.
His penchant for lingering tempos and dramatic pauses made a certain sense in the finale, "Der Abschied," which is, after all, a mystical account of a final, pained leave-taking, tinged with the disappointments of a troubled life.
