Word: penchant
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...brandishes a deranged laugh as well as she does a pistol. Unfortunately, Medak gives us no insight (aside form an out-of-left-field tale of her losing her virginity) into why she is indeed so bad. She is instead figure with pseudo-super powers and an inexplicable penchant for evil. That Olin must parade around in stiletto heels and garters only erodes her character's credibility even further...
Explaining his penchant for autobiographical films, McElwee says, "I can get a kind of perspective on my own life that gives me more flexibility in shaping some sort of final film...With my own life the limitations are only imposed by myself." He adds, "It also takes care of the huge problem I have of invading other poeple's lives with the movie camera....It's kind of contained: you work it out with your own family, your own friends....It sometimes seems it's the only place where cameras haven't been--my own life." With his unique claim...
...unlikely to make either reform or ordinary Russian lives any easier. Western experts have long insisted that the most painful aspect of Russia's effort to move to a market economy has been its roaring inflation. The main cause of that has been the Russian central bank's penchant for handing out subsidies and loans to bankrupt factories and state farms by printing billions of rubles, speeding the destruction of the national currency. Frantic Russians last week rushed to buy hard currency, driving down the ruble 15%, to almost 2,000 for one dollar, before it rebounded...
Goaltending: B+. Aaron Israel has been one of the pleasant surprises of the year; his 2.51 GAA is in the nation's top five, and his penchant for conceding the occasional soft goal has disappeared almost entirely from last year. He looks in top form nearly every time out, and his work ethic in practice has been a main reason...
Humanities concentrators who are interested in science can take real, departmental courses to fill Science A and B requirements. Yet, science majors who have a penchant for humanities can do no such thing. They'll never get Moral Reasoning credit for a Philosophy course, unless they file a last-minute petition to ensure their graduation...