Sentence examples for acknowledged penchant from inspiring English sources

Mr. Letterman has pretty much gotten a pass on his acknowledged penchant for trawling the corridors of his production company in search of sex partners.

Mr. Malone has acknowledged his penchant for complexity.

He acknowledged his penchant for secrecy, likening himself to a C.I.A. agent doling out information "on a need-to-know basis".

"Walter is as logical and sensible as I am not," Mr. Coppola said, acknowledging his penchant for visionary excess.

Daniel Richman, a Columbia law professor and close friend of Comey who has served as his unofficial media surrogate, acknowledged Comey's penchant for public righteousness.

And though Lythgoe acknowledged "Idol's" penchant for the "white boy with guitar" contestants, he insisted, "This year, we can honestly say the girls are stronger".

Despite Mitchum's acknowledged infidelities and his penchant for problems, the marriage endured 57 years and produced three children, James, Christopher and Petrina, and seven grandchildren.

But even Levant was forced to acknowledge his own penchant for non-sequiturs and imprecision, going so far as to apologize to the unflinching Chomsky and his regular corrections, "I'm sorry.

That estimate suggests large banks have reaped tremendous benefits from under-serving distressed homeowners, a complaint frequent enough among borrowers that federal regulators have acknowledged the industry has fundamental shortcomings, including a penchant to abuse borrowers, and is in need of reform.

Candidly acknowledging China's destructive penchant for extremism, for lurching from one form of totalism to another, Mr. Wang has become one of the first indigenous voices to critique China's "economic miracle" fully and publicly and to find it a deficient remedy for the failures of socialism.

And I should also acknowledge that the American penchant for pick pocketing dumb money from Europeans is moot if it is Americans who have run up the stock of Terra.