单词 | Penchant |
例句 | 1) She has a penchant for champagne. 2) She has a penchant for Indian food. 3) Her penchant for disappearing for days at a time worries her family. 4) He carried his penchant for secrecy to great lengths. 5) A penchant for setting oneself apart and above mere mortals. 6) Voters with a penchant for hair splitting might have rejected the warnings as the unfounded contentions of the Prop. 140 opponents. 7) His style was vivid, with a penchant for colourful, even shady, characters,(http:///penchant.html) and a zest for historical detection. 8) He is sturdily built with a penchant for on-side drives. 9) But the current penchant for mixing styles has placed new importance on that special little table with an individual personality. 10) If Patsy had a penchant for a pretty frock, Hughie Gallacher had a drink problem. 11) Perhaps a bit miscast, and with a penchant for too many double-takes, Perry none the less is game. 12) Another occupation to which Amelia applied her penchant for the unusual and the inventive was cooking. 13) It suited my wandering nature, my penchant for traversing the neighborhoods of San Francisco, honing my skills as a boulevardier. 14) An auto rally driver with a penchant for crashing cars, Marko Milosevic owns a discotheque and several cafes in the town. 15) On this occasion, however, his penchant for procrastination is turning into a liability. 16) For non-troglodytes, with a penchant for the unusual, the trip can provide a memorable experience. 17) He also developed a penchant for scoring goals against Division Two rivals, Plymouth Argyle. 18) This covers both his penchant for fusion, and his dippy mystic positivism and cosmology of love. 19) She thought his parlor humor and penchant for sarcasm showed a certain degree of immaturity. 20) Eddie is an overgrown schoolboy with a penchant for pulling fleshy faces. 21) Marta Rita Prince de Garcia is an elegant woman with a penchant for the drama of life. 22) Then, it was granted to a special breed of psychopath with a penchant for leather jackets and flared trousers. 23) Western popular prints and Soviet official art both displayed a penchant for landscapes, flower pieces, still lifes and genre. 24) I miss her intellect, her passion, her courage and her penchant for mainlining our nerves. 25) Their defense played superbly, but they still showed an astonishing penchant for careless mistakes. 26) Though by all outward appearances a woman of propriety, she had a penchant for mischief. 27) A further dismal feature of the evening is Hall's penchant for the unsurprising surprise. 28) A hip-hop beat, more tattoos than a biker bar, and a penchant to take every shot. 29) Until now, she had met no backlash from her penchant for dressing with unerring sensuality. 30) His friendship with Fujimori gives him unusual access to a president with a tiny circle of advisers and a penchant for secrecy. 31) Otaka's penchant is for the post-Wagnerian Romantics, particularly Strauss, three of whose works he conducted. 32) These two raccoon-eyed psychos have lost none of their no-holds-barred energy or their penchant for writing catchy melodies. 33) And, like an Edgar Allan Poe character, he harbors a penchant for graveyards, caskets and moldy cellars. 34) He was a slow-talking Mississippian with a penchant for the rustic turn of phrase and a gift for storytelling. 35) There is a cultural element penchant for mismanaging crisis. 36) He had a penchant for playing jokes on people. 37) The Irish have a penchant for blarney. 38) He seems to have a penchant for my children. 39) He could be timeconsuming with his penchant for anecdotes. 40) The appeal of the Duchess of Cambridge, a photogenic pin-up with a well-judged penchant for British designers. 41) Combine this with C's penchant for short, cryptic variable names, and you have a recipe for disaster. 42) But in Taiwan, financial services remain hamstrung, thanks to the government's penchant for interfering with banks. 43) Prosecution lawyers claim he has a penchant for guns and violence towards women who spurned him. 44) A pirate and smuggler, Baba was an obnoxious miscreant with a penchant for fisticuffs. 45) Nor does the island's penchant for equality stop at work - sharing. 46) As dismaying as the psychotic penchant for very small dogs is, a coming penchant for very small robot dogs will be even worse. 47) The stability of the Ukrainian hryvnia, the ill-regulated Kazakh banking system, and Hungarian borrowers' penchant for loans in Swiss francs are subjects crowding on to policymakers' desks. 48) Then along comes Russian soprano Anna Netrebko—knockout good looks, bewitching charm and a mesmerizing hold on the media, which tirelessly chronicle her penchant for partying and haute couture. 49) One of his seminal articles in this period was published in a book in honor of Mises — that supposedly washed-up old man who just so happened to have a penchant for speaking truth to power. 50) Mrs Clinton's penchant for spicy food is reportedly so notorious that flight stewards bring jalapeno slices to her with every dish. 51) While some people have a natural penchant for all things dramatic, including giving notice, many of these over-the-top resignations come from frustrated workers who've reached a boiling point. 52) Status Offline As dismaying as the psychotic penchant for very small dogs is, a coming penchant for very small robot dogs will be even worse. 53) When Homo sapiens evolved onthe African Savannah, the ones a penchant for trying new horizonsprospered. 54) Like America, China can still display a penchant for unilateralism that undermines all its careful diplomacy. 55) Despite her penchant for chitchat , Yvonne was no birdbrain, Martin discovered. 56) It was this performance, not his penchant for haiku poetry, that impressed other EU leaders. 57) On the other hand, David also a penchant for bright pink nails. 58) Blake will give them a steady floor leader off the bench with a penchant for hitting key three-pointers in the fourth quarter. 59) Though philosophers have a natural penchant for being , Absolutists when they write about education, it is surprisingly hard to find good examples of this position—was Plato an Absolutist? 60) Despite a penchant for contagious geometric patterns, Mr Orozco does not have an identifiable signature style. 61) His most recent project, a family home in Oporto in Portugal, demonstrates this penchant with bold and colourful details inspired by Transformers. 62) The legendary Italian singer has a penchant for "Rigoletto, " a masterpiece of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. 63) Not that Spake approves of the American penchant for excessive courtesy. 64) They have an equal and opposite penchant for conspiracy theories. 65) The garden is dominated by a sharp-tipped pyramid: the fanciful tomb of a Roman general with a penchant for Egyptology. 66) "Like a hammy actor, " wrote New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini on November 27, Lang Lang "has a penchant for interpretive exaggeration. 67) A diffident, shuffling stick figure on stage, at the keyboard he had a penchant for lugubrious tempos, affecting profundity and a crashing, bombastic virtuosity. 68) With a penchant for sliding tackle you can rouse your team mates and stir the crowd. 69) The invention could manage the electronic order of penchant and sale to accomplish the transaction successfully. 70) But given the electorate's penchant for ballot - box rebellions , all predictions at this stage look perilous. 71) A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances,(http:///penchant.html) begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture. 72) He says that Imelda had a penchant for luxury and opulence. 73) "He definitely needs services," the psychologist, a red-faced man with round glasses and a penchant for mumbling in jargon, decided. "We just don't know what. 74) He was a wiry, red - haired man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for grandiose schemes. 75) First Lady Michelle Obama has wowed fashion writers with her casual style, use of color and her penchant for the sleeveless dress at the G20 summit in the British capital this week. |
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