Word: penchant
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...sister pays my rent." In a typical episode, she has brunch with her friends, sticks them with the bill and gets into bizarre scrapes because of her constant need for attention (especially her sister's); her clueless insensitivity to minorities, the disabled and the elderly; and her penchant for drinking cough syrup while driving...
...Since her unlikely candidacy started gaining steam last year, Royal has had a penchant for saying almost nothing on traditional campaign topics, but launching missiles of iconoclasm where least expected. Earlier this week, she managed the difficult trick of enraging even Canada, when she offered an endorsement of what she called "the liberty and sovereignty of Quebec" after meeting with the head of the separatist Parti Québecois. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded with a brusque reminder that meddling in domestic affairs was "inappropriate for a foreign leader," and Sarkozy's camp could hardly contain its tut-tutting...
...nailing terrorists is one thing; building a nation where none exists is another. "We are starting from scratch," the head of Somalia's new government, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi, told me in an interview in Mogadishu. Given Somalia's penchant for clan warfare and inhospitableness toward foreign armies--just go out and rent a copy of Black Hawk Down--it's tempting for Western policymakers to wash their hands and wish Gedi luck. But Somalia's strife has repercussions beyond its borders. The country is victim to the worst ravages of man and nature. Instability there has the potential...
They were all once teenagers with a penchant for the gothic. But this preppy thing is simply odd. At the very least, there is a bit too much winking at the camera for my puritanical tastes...
...name for fear of retribution laughed and grew evasive. “It sometimes does do that, but I don’t know if that would be right to bring up.” In theory, the UA who unfreezes your computer won’t spread your penchant for adult material around campus. But even if he wouldn’t tell FM exactly what depravity he’s encountered on student PCs, FM’s source admits that “a lot of personal data gets shown...because it is data backup sometimes there...