Look, I didn't especially like his shirt, but I also don't think one can expect much more of a heavily inked dude with a well-established penchant for bad T-shirts.
Since then, Mr. Grylls's penchant for adventure has established this 37-year-old Englishman as television's foremost survivalist.
They may also have eased the rigors of bloodletting, some of it self-inflicted, some of it not (the Mayan penchant for human sacrifice is well established) through which kings enriched the earth and communicated with the beyond.
He quickly established a handful of interpretive characteristics, among them a penchant for letting Chopin's nuanced melodies sing sweetly over the rumbling, chromatic accompaniments.
Once we established that my dad had not been indulging a penchant for animated companions, all eyes turned to my little sister, who promptly burst into tears.
His strategy was to write letters to the editors bitching that Reichl's penchant for reviewing noodle joints (before southeast Asian cuisine had established itself as worthy of professional critical attention) was making the Times look low-rent.
The move plunges Wal-Mart into competition with several established sites, like Amazon.com, CinemaNow and iTunes, and given the chain's penchant for price cutting, could drive down the cost of a digital download.
Some of the money, without question, flowed into Mr. Velez's own pocket, at least through suppliers he set up, and this penchant for establishing private corporations to do business with his public endeavors raised many questions.
With their unrepentant commitment to verisimilitude (promptly labeled, with the art world's penchant for establishing ever more refined taxonomies, the New Realism) and powerful visual impact, these pieces caused a stir, establishing Mr. Jenney as both a significant presence and an important influence on other artists.
The casualty insurer and bank were established in 1999 and 2001 respectively under Nobuyuki Idei, then chief executive, who shared Mr. Morita's penchant for empire-building.
Houston Chronicle critic Joey Guerra rated the album three stars and wrote: "Despite the Disney machine's presence, Here We Go Again doesn't rely too heavily on 'tween trends, instead relying on Lovato's penchant for rock-drama and teaming her with a slew of older, established acts".
