Sentence examples for special penchant from inspiring English sources

Her third husband had been a serial quotation freak with a special penchant for Tennyson.

Maybe Baron Pierre de Coubertin had a special penchant for water sports.

February 23 2012 May 20 201212 When the French painter Edgar Degas was a student in Rome, he immersed himself in the Old Masters, with a special penchant for Rembrandt.

Reviewing Just As I Thought in the New York Times, the critic Ellen Willis argued that "this brand of feminism - and humanism - works better as literature than politics; I don't believe that by virtue of our child-bearing capacity we have a special responsibility for children, a special talent for nurturance, a special connection with the earth or a special penchant for non-violence".

SOFEX takes place every two years in Amman, and is largely the brainchild of Jordan's king, Abdullah II, who has a penchant for special operations and massive displays of artillery.

Read's background does suggest a penchant for aggressive special teams play.

Of special fascination is Fry's penchant for what Smith calls "instrumental text declamation".

The design of the boys' rooms was left to the family: Mrs. Uyttendaele, a former special education teacher with a penchant for interior design, was responsible for the brightly colored walls and furnishings in their playroom and the bedroom, where they sleep in bunk beds under glow-in-the-dark planets that are suspended from the ceiling.

Moreover, despite Congress' penchant for denying special tax breaks to the better off, there's no income limit that keeps rich people from claiming any of these credits.

And despite Congress' penchant for denying special tax breaks to the better off, there's no income limit that keeps rich people from claiming any of these credits.

Such "extreme reading" requires special personal traits: grit, stamina, a penchant for self-improvement, and a dash of perversity.