Word: penchant
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...also characterized by colorful leaders with a penchant for publicity-garnering stunts...
Even the spread’s layout speaks to this fact. Forgive my penchant for close reading here (I am, after all in the thesis home stretch) but most of the caption is written in a moderately large, dark red font. The word six however (as in “not a size SIX?”) is bright pink and a whole lot larger. The layout draws your attention to the fact that Chubby doesn’t look the way she should, that the fashion designer has had to work extra hard to make her look decent...
...don’t even know, by the way. Here’s a hint: I’ve been thinking and writing about this for the last year, don’t ask that question unless you have at least two hours to spare and a penchant for making me feel like the drivel I’m feeding you tastes oh-so-delicious...
According to the French justice official, the embassy may become even more of an al-Qaeda target as attempts are foiled. "We've seen the penchant - almost obsession - of Islamist terrorists to go back to targets they have been prevented from destroying in earlier plots," this source says. This new attempt on the U.S. embassy in Rome may not have been as daring or well-planned as the World Trade Center attack, but it could have been deadly
George Gamow, a prominent theoretical physicist, is one recurring figure in the story. Watson describes him as a “six-foot, six-inch giant” who “defied conventional description with his penchant for tricks that masked a mind that always thought big.” With Gamow, Watson founded the RNA Tie Club, a group of twenty scientists—one for each amino acid—who sought to understand the purpose of RNA. Watson’s descriptions of many of these scientists often zero in on their idiosyncracies and help personalize...