Sentence examples for destructive penchant from inspiring English sources

My column this week is about the apparently irresistible, but generally destructive, penchant that businesses have for price wars.

By James Surowiecki October 30, 2009 My column this week is about the apparently irresistible, but generally destructive, penchant that businesses have for price wars.

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.

A destructive penchant, it has often made me feel simply unworthy and left me unfulfilled, as I felt ingenuine and hollow.

Mr. Rivers had a sometimes self-destructive penchant for gossip, scandal and outlandishness.

He grew up with little, in large part because his father had a well-intentioned but self-destructive penchant for giving it away.

Its pathological, and self-destructive penchant for violence has not only resulted in the deaths of innocents.

There aren't many American actors who have made a penchant for self-destructive behavior blossom into a fully realized gallery of performances".

Where is that other formulation that can resist the destructive logic of the "realists" and their penchant for force as the dominant mode of conflict resolution?

Displaying an apparent penchant for deadly devices, Maxim also invented the only slightly less destructive common mousetrap.

At times Norwich's penchant for passing the ball around at the back seemed self-destructive but going forward it was a different matter entirely.