Sentence examples for a real penchant from inspiring English sources

"Pruitt has a real penchant for secrecy," Sierra Club senior attorney Elena Saxonhouse said.

(The book has a real penchant for short, perfunctory sex scenes in which men deflower instantly breathless virgins, as Fitz does Ethel).

Everyone knows Dave has always been a rock guy and perhaps a bit too old to have had a real penchant for house.

Kroenke, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is a real estate developer whose penchant for privacy draws as much attention as the business dealings that amassed a fortune Forbes estimated at $5.8 billion.

Arnold Warwick, a real estate agent in Greenwich Village, said Mr. Gottlieb had a penchant for thrift.

Ms. MacLeod's paintings, in particular, add a bit of emotional warmth without offering a real alternative and are mostly marginalized by Mr. Fischer's penchant for visual extremes.

Winchell has a penchant for the bizarre and the bad: "I have a real appetite for the misguided.

He liked them: Sharlene, a real estate broker who peppered him with questions, and Chris, a furniture installer around his own age with a penchant for low-stakes poker and the Grateful Dead.

A year or so ago a Key West gentleman with a keen eye and a penchant for real estate came upon a listing.

Michael Powell, the FCC's chairman, has said that he would like to see himself more as a speed cop than as a real-estate agent, and makes clear his penchant for unlicensed bands.

Ms. Jones said that when she started working for Payless, she knew she would be asked how real her penchant for the products was.