Sentence examples for singular penchant for from inspiring English sources

Further, as many artists have remarked, paint has a singular penchant for mimicking flesh.

He does have a penchant for the peculiar.

With his penchant for quoting his favourite poet, Rilke, Weissman cuts a singular figure.

Rickey Henderson's singular, amusing and sometimes-confusing ways of expressing himself -- featuring, but not limited to, his penchant for referring to himself as Rickey -- have made his Hall of Fame induction speech on Sunday highly anticipated.

Although his penchant for singing his own praises can be distracting ("Roubini's prescience was as singular as it was remarkable: no other economist in the world foresaw the recent crisis with nearly the same level of clarity and specificity"), his analysis of the cataclysm and his deft placement of it within a historical context soon steamroller any doubts one might have.

With his hooded eyes, bald head and penchant for chewing white towels during games, Tarkanian, known as Tark the Shark, became a singular character in college sports.

Buoyed by the authentic voice of 17-year-old Quinn Roberts -- think Holden Caulfield with a penchant for boys in mesh shorts -- The Great American Whatever refuses to make its narrator's sexuality the singular focus.

A penchant for sadomasochism.

Curiously, a penchant for overalls.

"He has a penchant for lifting clubs.

Urmanov also had a penchant for gloves.