He watched Jacobs's interest in art, for instance, flower into a penchant for collecting (which has at times necessitated borrowing large sums of money).
Spears also shares a penchant for snakes, which can also be poisonous but are rarely to be found in South Yorkshire, with shlock-rocker Alice Cooper, who also wrote the fittingly titled 1989 track Poison.
"The playoffs are right around the corner and we had a good showing today". The Falcons (16-9) finished 2-1 on Saturday with a penchant for rallying, which was displayed in a 26-28, 25-15, 15-9 fifth-place match victory over Van Nuys 22-133).
His inability to express himself nudged him toward writing and literature, and he developed a penchant for antic humor, which kept him popular despite his silence.
MAULDIN, S.C. — The South has a penchant for odd loyalties, which goes a long way toward explaining why a man from North Carolina last year ordered a customized Duke's mayonnaise jar in which to store his remains.
The front-runner is Mr. Gray's William Russell, a former governor and secretary of state with a quick wit, a patrician sensibility, high ideals and a penchant for womanizing to which his rock-solid wife (Michael Learned) has long been resigned.
Gregor Townsend was blessed with those instincts, too, but also with a penchant for the unorthodox, which was why the mercurial Galashiels man was periodically moved out to the centres, or out to the bench and out of the selection frame altogether.
One of her women characters writes "Happiness is capability" and sticks it on her fridge, and there is a fridge-magnet tendency at times in Shields's work: a penchant for happy endings (which she can satirise in herself, too), for cutely punning titles, folksy parables and comforting adages.
Messiaen had a penchant for orchestral grandeur, which he indulged in his huge "Turangalîla Symphony" (in his words, "a hymn to the superhuman joy that transcends everything") and, much later, in his awe-struck tribute to the canyons of Utah and the stars above, "Des Canyons aux Étoiles".
Wall Street's regulators have a penchant for giving speeches, which often raises the question as to why there isn't enough pressing work to keep them busy back at the office.
A penchant for worrying ― which is a common habit for overthinkers ― is correlated with more verbal intelligence, according to a paper published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
