Word: penchant
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...world into which Wallace Stevens delves for a night is much stranger than anything Bond ever had to face: Russians (that's right, Russians), call girls, defense ministers, senior citizens with a penchant for S & M and Octopussy (well, not really...
...those of you for whom it matters, when you cast your vote in the election today and have weighed Messinger's apparent genuine compassion against Giuliani's penchant for unqualified results, if good versus evil does not influence your voting decisions at a level consistent with most systems of morality and you are at a loss for who to vote for, pick Giuliani if for no other reason than that he's so damn New York...
Pinker has little patience with critics, particularly Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who accuses evolutionary psychologists in general (and presumably Pinker as well) of indulging a "penchant for narrow and often barren speculation" and "pure guesswork in the cocktail-party mode." Pinker has even less patience with those who would confuse an evolutionary explanation for how the human mind evolved with the idea that our fate is genetically predetermined. Genes, he says, "do not dictate what we should accept or how we should live...
...recognizance. Two other suspects, Wesley Brownell, 17, and Delbert Shaw, 18, posted bail at week's end. The seven friends appear to have formed what they called "the Group." Several members of the Group belonged to the Junior Classical League, which studied Latin. Some apparently had a penchant for black clothing and for the broodings on nihilism of the 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche...
...Greenspan, who last week sent up his third warning flag in 12 months, and gray-haired money managers who lived through the tough '70s markets speak of such things. Everyone else goes on merrily leveraging his or her financial future to an institution that has demonstrated through history a penchant for stomping on anyone who dares to take it for granted...