It also has certain disadvantages — a penchant for over-consumption and short term thinking.
The Italian menu hews to tradition — along the lines of arancini and chicken scarpariello — but most of what we sampled had a certain flair and penchant for authenticity (the kitchen is overseen by Carmine Paglia, formerly of Polpo, in Greenwich, Conn).. To start came a little antipasti trio, on the house: a swirl of milky ricotta, fat green olives and fiery, full-bodied caponata.
Only Ghana were able to carry the torch, before they came across a certain Uruguayan with a penchant for controversy in the quarter-finals.
2 Regent's Park Road NW1, +44 (0)20-7485 2206, efdss.org Aiming to dispel the myth that jazz is only for people of a certain age with a penchant for saying "nice", The Vortex brings contemporary jazz to Dalston with seven evening performances a week.
True, he is fond of Europe; but he has that pledge of an "in-out" EU referendum (in certain circumstances) to neutralise that penchant.
In the documentary, Angelou talks intelligently, emotionally, and openly about Baldwin's ability to transgress certain categories, like the American penchant for defining the world through gender.
The background: See the name Mountain Man and you think immediately of those burly check-shirted back-porch Americana types with beards that you read about in certain monthly magazines with a penchant for alt country.
(Cycling fans without a penchant for a certain kind of French literature may skip the next paragraph. I would probably skip it myself as I am among your number).
Mr. Rioult's penchant for a certain kind of old-fashioned modern dance style (heroic jumps, legs flung high to the side with flexed feet, women hanging off men's bodies) can translate into a fluent sweep of dance and eye-catching formations.
He's written more pages of Batman than nearly any other person on the planet and is even responsible for creating a certain villain who has a penchant for breaking Bruce Wayne's back (and was recently featured in the latest Bat-flick, The Dark Knight Rises).
