Sentence examples similar to a taste for figures from inspiring English sources

Deference to Congress, a technocrat's belief in governmental solutions, and a taste for compromise have all figured in Breyer's jurisprudence.

The trouble arose when radicals, mistaking statues of religious figures for royalty, developed a taste for decapitation.

I've found a taste for making movies I can wallow in and figure it out as I go.

Both were Rosminians and shared a taste for traditional liturgy, but Cunningham was the more approachable, grounded figure.

For the last 10 years, the business has been owned and run by Mr. Leroy, a tall, Barnumesque figure who grew up in Paris and Manhattan with a taste for oddities and antiques.

His nephew cuts a more easy-going, affable figure, with a love of football and a taste for worry-beads that will put ordinary voters at their ease.

As president, he was a heavy set elegantly dressed figure with dark hair brushed straight back and a taste for homburg hats.

A tall, pale, wraithlike figure with a beak nose and a poker face, Mr. Radcliffe, 65, has a taste for cloak-and-dagger theatricality.

He has a taste for the theatric.

She also developed a taste for painkillers.

He has "a taste for performance".