Word: penchant
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...needs to worry about when you’ve got the style of a black, male, comic-book-fed Pauline Kael with a penchant for bad ’80s music videos, and a better wardrobe than the love-child of Dorian Grey and Lester Bowie...
Creeley’s keen sense of phrasing may have stemmed from his penchant for music, mentioned attendees at the memorial...
Which of course explains a second aspect of Donato’s legend across the River—the product of his penchant for disappearing on towel runs and returning with a van that wasn’t quite the van it used to be, on more than one occasion...
...majority of students, on the other hand, matched Prince’s penchant for the comic with their own interpretations of numbers from lighter shows such as She Loves Me and Carousel. Karlin sang a particularly effervescent aria on the joys of vanilla ice cream and the tribulations of love, while other performers continually had the audience chuckling over pre-teen melodrama and starry-eyed romance, even as they marveled over performers’ vocal power...
...criminal justice system has an awful record of convicting the innocent of capital crimes, and this only in cases where enough evidence exists to reach a real conclusion; no one will ever know how many innocent people have been executed in the U.S. And for those with a penchant for cost-benefit analysis, the death penalty is incredibly expensive. Studies have shown time and again that the difference between the costs of a death row case and the cost of life in prison are enormous...