Word: penchant
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...painter Ludwig Richter remarked in 1825, does not deal with "the spirit and importance of nature ... Friedrich chains us to an abstract idea, using the forms of nature in a purely allegorical manner, as signs and hieroglyphs." Like other German Fruhromantiker (early romanticists) of his time, Friedrich had a penchant for introversion and metaphysical generalizations which the more pragmatic English romantics (except men like Blake and Coleridge) did not share. He filled his work with symbolism, most of which is lost to a modern viewer...
Aside from his penchant for expensive dogs and an addiction to luxurious cars-he owns a Cadillac, Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Foreman has few of the trappings of a superstar. One of the reasons may be that until recently Foreman actually had very little money. In fact, during his divorce proceedings earlier this year, Foreman's lawyers indicated that the champion was very nearly bankrupt. The tangle of old contracts and deals that was consuming his income has since been cleared away...
...press clubs, including the one where other black newsmen meet. His beat is largely confined to a cluttered, windowless office just off the Washington Post's news room and a vast network of telephone sources. Were it not for a slight resemblance to Comedian Flip Wilson and a penchant for wearing red plaid trousers, Columnist William Raspberry could do his work unnoticed, until another of his provocative articles appears...
...much different from that usually associated with watching freaks like the fat lady at the circus. Instead, I felt the same amused involvement as Bill must have when he sat down to munch on his Fruit Loops. At the same time Charlie's and Bill's lives, with their penchant for putting everything on the line, are alien to my own rather prosaic existence, I felt a certain similarity of motivation with them, as if all of us are guided by a set of principles intrinsic to Americans...
...King, a wool trader. Ford was christened Leslie King Jr. Two years later, the marriage broke up, and mother and child returned to Grand Rapids. In 1916, Dorothy married Gerald R. Ford, a paint salesman, who adopted young Leslie and gave the boy his name?as well as his penchant for hard work, athletics and community involvement. He also instructed his stepson in a certain humility. Remember, he told the boy, someone else can always do the job better than you. The elder Ford, who died in 1962, never prospered as a businessman but established a reputation for character...