Word: penchant
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...oath and felt he was being treated rudely by Jackson. At a press conference later, Kissinger made a convincing case that nothing had been agreed upon with the Soviets that was out of line with the basic treaty. But Jackson claimed that the real issue was Kissinger's penchant for handling U.S. foreign policy as he saw fit, ignoring the bureaucracy and failing to get the approval of Congress...
When a couple of friends who owned a basketball team came to him in 1966 with the idea of starting a new league, he quickly dropped his tax cases to barnstorm the country looking for prospective owners. In the hunt, Davidson coupled his penchant for cold calculation with a latent but awesome talent for salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen...
...court a month later and the charges were dismissed. The police, reluctant to admit that they had bungled horribly, pressed the charges to the bitter end, perhaps because the second complainant was none other than the wife of the arresting officer, a patrolman with a penchant for arresting people on such ridiculous pretexts as breaking tree branches. I quit; sold stereos for a month; worked on a cigarette promotion handing out sample packs to promote national cancer week; got into law school; found a summer job with a PR firm; finally moved into an apartment; and had my car stolen...
Botched Story. Whole columns were deservedly devoted to such coups. But "The Lyons Den" more typically had the flair of a railway timetable. Lyons' prose strained toward the average, and his penchant for missing, mangling or omitting entirely the kicker of anecdotes was the despair of his sources. During the World War II point system of rationing managed by the Office of Price Administration, George S. Kaufman said that Lyons "missed so many points that he was under investigation by the OPA." One botched Lyons story: after Noel Coward had made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned...
...lack of rhythm also detracts from and sometimes interferes with an objective reading of the book. Her lines don't flow smoothly and lump together like coagulated oatmeal. "Five seagulls, circumflex accents, drift by." She displays a penchant for using formalistic inversions which add nothing but stiffness to the line: "that five-petaled sun/folds all its fruited segments out..." Spivack tends to generalize about the whole human race, instead of speaking from her own personal experience and leaving it at that...