It was late in the evening, a time when the teen-age penchant for melodrama tends to be in full flower.
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.
Mr. Fang's willingness to test the boundaries of his eventual academic discipline, the physics of the universe, seemed foreshadowed even at an early age by his penchant for questioning authority.
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Their rechristening was driven by marketing and the age-old arriviste penchant for reinvention: like colonists, neighborhood newcomers staked their claim by renaming wherever they happened to land.
Born in the Comoros islands, between Mozambique and Madagascar, the man known variously as Fazul Abdullah Mohammed or Haroun Fazul was apparently radicalised at an early age, yet retained a penchant for US-style baseball caps and western technology, especially computers.
Internet sociality may have created in part our pop-culture inside jokes, our abbreviated language and penchant for age-inappropriate confessionalism.
Inevitably, her advice on the arrangement of furniture in the drawing room or the placement of electric lights in the boudoir is as charmingly dated as her penchant, in old age, for tinting her hair blue or lavender to match her outfit — one of many trends that she initiated.
It was perhaps a testament to how little is known about the artist's private life and the penchant of other ageing rock stars to sire children late in life that the story was so readily believed.
Singapore's penchant for active ageing is just a tacit acknowledgement of the fact that, in a fully neoliberal knowledge economy, old people never retire: surrounded by data-hungry technology companies, old people continue generating data, which, after some black magic on the global advertising markets, can be turned into gold.
From the age of six I had a penchant for copying the form of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing that I drew was worthy of notice.
