Sentence examples for this penchant to from inspiring English sources

This penchant to see North Koreans as two-dimensional symbols of oppression is the unspoken weight that so alienates many defectors.

Since my junior year, the newsroom has been my second home, and this penchant to the domain of black and white can be attributed directly to my mother, who was herself a journalism student and writer for The Times of India prior to coming to this country.

As Kevin Baker points out in his current Harper's article, "Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again," this penchant to go for the abstruse fix, in place of the plain one that stares in the face, has a good chance of dooming the Obama presidency, despite the president's undoubtedly sharp awareness of the issues at stake.

I understand the penchant to be just like Twitter, but I don't think its necessary in this context.

This should go a long way to curb bankers' penchant to take on any bet — no matter how enormous its risks — to reap short-term profits and "earn" a large bonus, oblivious to what may happen afterward.

His penchant to kill off characters has been widely criticized.

Past medical history revealed a penchant to ingest Chinese herbal preparations.

We had always been debilitated by this penchant of ours to get A's because getting A's wasn't cool.

Anna's favorite form of entertainment was to arrange and re-arrange marriages, and it was this penchant that gave rise to the House of Ice.

Their two remix records (the second of which, "DISCO2," is out this week on Lovepump United Records) testify to this penchant, as does the inclusion of the dazzling British dance producer Derwin, a.k.a.a

And this penchant has led him to tackle some of the big questions of modern biology.