Word: penchant
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Pitchfork has been publishing "best-of" lists for years (their annual singles and album wrap-ups are especially popular) so it seems natural that they'd turn their penchant for classifying and cataloging music into a book. The Pitchfork 500 uses 42 critics to cover 30 years of music, from 1977 punk to 2006 crunk, and all the starry-eyed, acoustic acts in between...
Most of all, in your encounters with Yalies, don’t let them get away with giving the business to Our Queen Drew Faust. If they say one word about her green initiatives, penchant for Civil War inventresses, or cutting-edge hair style, you must immediately challenge them to a fisticuffs. Be prepared. These Yalies always like to fence their way out of conflicts and will probably wield...
...friend of Summers, said that Summers’ management style was not conducive to a University setting, where there are “lots of big egos” to be massaged.Nurturing was “not Larry’s strength,” Zeckhauser said, and his penchant for blunt criticism did him no favors with the cadre of faculty members who had opposed his presidency from the start.But Summers was able to weather his time in the Clinton administration without instigating conflicts, Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel said. The fact that Summers had trouble leading...
...Avatars need not represent players' real-life personas. Online, Laura Skye works as a club DJ and is 6 feet tall, weighs 112 lb. and has a penchant for skin-tight cowgirl outfits. In reality, Taylor, an unemployed former waitress, is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 224 lb. and prefers T shirts and leggings...
...sitcom director couldn’t have cast a better set of characters: There was Bush, the prodigal-son-turned-born-again with a characteristic smirk and a penchant for butchering the English language; Cheney, with all the charm of a superhero villain and the mannerisms to match; and the entire gang—from Rumsfeld to Ashcroft, Rove to Gonzalez—each with his own set of laughable, unlovable idiosyncrasies...