Sentence examples for penchant for performing from inspiring English sources

Parkinson's syndrome restricts his speech and mobility, but not his penchant for performing magic (like the disappearing yellow hanky) or his instant attraction to people who want to touch him, or whisper sweet somethings to him.

On the cover of their new album they appear half-naked, wearing only towels; their drummer used to have a penchant for performing in a pig mask; and they're more inclined to do a version of a track by controversial hip-hop collective Odd Future or 90s shoegazers My Bloody Valentine than reinterpret a John Coltrane classic.

With a reputation that bordered on the manic and compulsive, and a penchant for performing in tattered clothes, the Bags were short-lived but trailblazing.

But 'pataphysics first truly overlapped with rock music in 1967, when Soft Machine - a psychedelic pop group with a penchant for improvisation - performed a live soundtrack to Jarry's play Ubu Enchainé Ubu Enchainedd) at the Traverse theatre in Edinburgh during that year's Fringe festival.

The German pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias is an excitable musician with a penchant for wild ideas, like performing and conducting all of Mozart's 21 piano concertos by memory in seven concerts over a couple of weeks, as he did in 2000 at the Edinburgh International Festival.

"I have a penchant for trying to do things with places that aren't performing the way they could," she said.

If not for his blatant narcissism and penchant for telling dubious stories about having once performed with James Brown, his behavior might be endearing.

Iggy Pop – a man who regularly performs topless and has a penchant for see-through trousers without underwear – might not seem to have much in common with luxury fashion.

I do not cherish a hitherto secret penchant for white goods, although I understand and appreciate that they perform an important service to us all.

"This was always a place where minds were on fire," Ms. Hawley said, referring to Gardner's penchant for having artists, musicians and dancers — including one who performed something called the Cobra — appear at the museum in her day.

Hiromi Uehara, the pint-size piano dynamo who performs under her first name, has a penchant for brisk bedazzlement and hyper-articulated drama.