Word: penchant
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...With her penchant for taking the subject, any subject, by the horns, she doesn't let her own involvement in all the things she's writing about go unremarked, and she remarks on it with the same between-you-and-me honesty she uses so well on the subject of breasts. She sweeps aside any pretense of objectivity to quickly it doesn't even get a chance to become a full-blown pretense. She went to her tenth reunion at Wellesley she tells us just because she was writing a column for Esquire about it, but (wink) we all know...
...immaculate and quite literal respect for the law. This is, in fact, why he is in uniform, on foot patrol, instead of dashing about in plain clothes and solving glamorous crimes. His strict adherence to the book, as well as an unshakable simple-mindedness and a fateful penchant for instigating catastrophe, has kept Clouseau from achieving his full status as a crime fighter. Give him his due and he would be right up there, somewhere between Arsene Lupin and the Green Hornet, battling the forces of evil-if he could only figure out who they were...
Despite his penchant for authoritarianism, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee seems positively Jeffersonian compared with his counterpart north of the Demilitarized Zone. No other country can rival North Korea in its thoroughgoing control over every aspect of the lives of its 15 million citizens, or in the total deification of its leader, President Kim Il Sung...
...that too. He has a graceful, accurate jump shot that he puts to good use for the A.B.A.'s 3-point baskets from 25 ft. out, and he often dribbles the ball the length of the court to set up the offense. Indeed, his only weakness is a penchant for drawing offensive fouls...
...about a Bulgarian nobleman who writes an operetta called The Chocolate Soldier because he loads his revolver with chocolate. Shaw outraged public opinion with this play by revealing that Bulgarians of high social position did not bathe. The director is the very accomplished Evangline Morphos, but the Mainstage's penchant for competent, unexciting productions of good but not great plays will probably not be reversed. Tonight through Sunday at 8 p.m. as well as next week...