Word: penchant
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...penchant for aggressively physical playing characterizes Williamson on the field, as spectators can attest...
Photographic Sensationalism. Not everyone has the time or the inclination to read the articles, so they look to the pictures. Believe it or not, the Herald has a penchant for publishing unflattering photographs of people it doesn’t particularly care for, like Hillary Clinton. But this is mild compared to last month’s photographic scandal...
...penchant for perfection extends beyond the classroom too. Here, within the walls of The Harvard Crimson, I oversee all things photography-related (that’s in my job description) as well as many things design-, layout-, and production-related (not in my job description). Once upon a time last spring, a designer had done a cutout of a person in a photograph—that is, he removed the background of the photo, leaving only the person’s figure. Or at least, he attempted...
Greene relished the opportunity to champion the victim’s voice. In fact, Greene’s penchant for taking up the cross of the troubled more than once earned the ire of critics. But for someone who so frequently stirred the pot of conventions, Greene was sensitive to critics’ barbs...
...Perlman, of TV’s Beauty and the Beast fame, has the chops (and the eyebrows and the jawbones) to deliver Hellboy’s throwaway one-liners and punches with the appropriate devil-may-care élan: he’s Dirty Harry with a penchant for beer and pancakes, a superhero-everyman less detached than Batman and much cooler than Spiderman...