Sentence examples for including a penchant from inspiring English sources

But sometimes, old Wall Street habits — including a penchant for expensive luxuries — are hard to break.

He also seems to be developing other Jobs-like traits, including a penchant for pithy put-downs.

But many Chinese idiosyncrasies will persist, including a penchant for shopping abroad and a big discount market that mingles the real with the fake.

It pairs this, however, with anti-liberal, if not antidemocratic, positions, including a penchant for economic autarky, a scapegoating of immigrants and hostility toward minority groups.

— Chris Evert (@ChrissieEvert) 11 Apr 13 Tiger Woods is known for making a big splash, including a penchant for making a lot of birdies on No. 18, no matter where he plays.

Mr. Cuomo also demonstrated some of the other characteristics that have surfaced over the course of his political career, including a penchant for operating in secret and an eagerness to stamp out even seemingly minor perceived threats.

That attitude finds its apotheosis in women like Ilona Royce Smithkin: a flamboyant 91-year-old bachelorette, whose burlesque charms include a penchant for show tunes, daring colors and false eyelashes cut from her own shock of bright red hair.

That culture has also included a penchant for gawking at self-mutilation since long before this weekend's phalangeal severance.

Take Mr. Flyagin, the horse connoisseur-cum-monk who recounts his extended and remarkable adventures in the title story: Flyagin is certainly guilty of brutish acts, but Leskov ensures that he is seen in the fullness of his own perception, in which all failings (including a disastrous penchant for drink) are accepted as human.

More than once in the announcement of his candidacy, Mr. Anuzis plainly implied criticism of Mr. Steele's penchant for publicity, including a nationwide bus tour in the 2010 campaign's final weeks.

Never mind his penchant for accepting gifts (including a Wendy's lifetime discount).