Sentence examples for penchant for big from inspiring English sources
His penchant for "big people's work" was part of the reason he left his village, he told me recently.
As chairman of ABC's entertainment group, Mr. Braun had a penchant for big offbeat concepts like "Lost," which won the Emmy for best drama.
That was part of Rupp's penchant for big goals: as a reserve forward, he scored the 2003 Stanley Cup-winning goal for the Devils in a 3-0 Game 7 win over Anaheim.
The band rose to prominence in the early nineties on the strength of its sunny début album, "3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of," but, despite their penchant for big radio hooks and their enlightened outlook, the hits dried up.
A self-described macho "street linguist" for whom fieldwork is part pub crawl, Bickerton has a penchant for big ideas and a "total lack of respect for the respectable" that, judging from his new memoir, has put him at odds with bureaucrats and colleagues.
BankBazaar seems to have a penchant for big name backers.
Wells was, of course, also chosen because of his 11-2 record, his penchant for big-game performances, and his perfect game against Minnesota on May 17.
B1 Neediest Cases B6 SPORTSMONDAY D1-9 ARTS E1-12 Movie Audiences on the Decline As Hollywood pursued its penchant for big-budget event films -- from Warner Brothers' "Troy" to Sony Pictures' "Spider-Man 2" -- the number of moviegoers in the United States dropped for the second year in a row, according to Exhibitor Relations, which tracks these figures.
Ravelstein's stammering comes "not from weakness but from overflow," from his penchant for "large statements, big issues and famous men, with decades, eras, centuries".
When Parcells took over he addressed the team's failure to win in the second half, its inability to win on the road (or even at home), its penchant for giving up big plays and, simply, giving up.
"My penchant is for big, bold pieces," she continued, like the brown onyx necklace from Monies in Paris that looks like shards of ice, or the New York City skyline.
