Word: penchant
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...human penchant for telling stories unfettered by facts is remarkable. It is sad that many people accept those accounts as truth. I wish the promise of the Enlightenment would be fulfilled?that supernaturalism would be replaced by scientific investigation and reason. JOHN MOORMAN Tifton...
...White House helped raise Ch�vez's profile when Washington was widely believed to have backed a failed coup in 2002 against the democratically elected revolutionary (a charge the Bush Administration denies). Since then, despite what critics call Ch�vez's penchant for authoritarian rule, his popularity has risen--not only in Latin America but also in some parts of U.S. cities like Boston and New York, where the Venezuelan government--owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Ch�vez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol...
...choreographed and performed in partners by a jeans-clad Walker and David L. Blazar ’06, made excellent use of the stage—and the two dancers showed expressive interaction with one another. However, the ending, perhaps composed in an effort to adhere to the modern penchant for stylistic anti-climaxes, achieved a sort of awkward close with a series of partner lifts that looked more like hopping than anything else. Walker must have changed quickly in order to dance in the very next large number, Gianni DiMarco’s “Sensemaya...
...really well tonight,” Brine said. “Johnston was cycling down low and putting the puck on net.” “We mesh well,” Johnston added. On all three goals, Brine displayed her deft touch around the goal and penchant for cleaning up rebounds and putting them in the back of the net. “She’s really good down low,” Stone said. “She’s a very smart player. She knows how to anticipate where the puck is going...
...faces that we didn’t go to the Spence School for Girls,” the critics shout, en masse, waving their newsie caps, coal-soaked handkerchiefs, and sickles.But essentially, I’ve always hated Marx. Mostly because of his serial infidelities and his penchant for coffeehouses. But more to the point, he just seemed to give the rich much more credit than they really deserved. The scene represented in “Scene” is, in my humble opinion, scarcely more important than any other scene here. Their staff is just another bunch of crackpot...