Word: penchant
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Only days before, the Republicans had seemed to be the chosen victims of an internecine bloodletting; the Democrats, with an incumbent President, appeared to be headed for snug harbor. New Hampshire, with a relished penchant for turning things topsy-turvy, turned them over once again. When the results were in, the G.O.P. had a clear front runner in Richard Nixon and a long-shot challenger in Nelson Rockefeller. The Democrats, by contrast, had on their hands the most dramatic-and potentially explosive-political situation in decades...
...psychology for territory as complex "and mystifying as the human nervous system, he is a tourist who does not speak the language. He has an unfortunate way of composing statements full of adman phrases such as "New Man" and the "West of Here and Now." He has a penchant for over-categorizine and overreaching, as when he calls Marilyn Monroe the pop-culture version of the Indian love goddess, bleached out "under the impossibly bright lights of the movie...
Although Grania is the chief culprit, the three of them bark and bite at one other all night in a manner not unlike the Tyrones in Long Day's Journey into Night. Lady Gregory's penchant for folk dialect and fairly elaborate imagery prevent the encounters from being quite so acerbic, and give the characters a sort of distance. There's not an awful lot you can do with only two or three characters on stage, and director John Pym settles for movement that is simple and unobtrusive...
...dining hall, was asked whether or not he was a senior. If he said that he was, he was handed a poll and asked to fill it out. Only about ten or fifteen seniors refused to take the poll--the other 529 filled it out regardless of political penchant. Once they had completed the poll, their name was checked off a master list in order to prevent repeats...
...with his favorite Strauss works. He struck a theme from Don Juan: an image for the dark, liquid eyes, flaring nostrils and smoldering visage that prompted one of his many female admirers to compare him to "an untamed animal-sensual and earthy." Then Don Quixote: a reflection of his penchant for tilting in public at sacred cultural institutions. Then Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks: the insouciant wink-and-nudge of a joker who likes to imitate other people over the telephone, and who once threw an entire hotel into chaos during a concert tour by sneaking around the corridors...