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    1. “Yeah, one of those shallow creeps who only care about making money!” The third fat-cat said, absent-mindedly fiddling with the golden penchant hanging around his neck


    2. Song, the other member of their company who shared Senta's penchant for over-dressing, insisted, “Do put it on!”


    3. The only son of one of the most prominent and ancient families in the Colovian Highlands, he had, reluctantly, been allowed to train and nurture his penchant for tactical studies as a purely intellectual exercise


    4. They were undeniably bright, well-read academics with a penchant for dissecting and analyzing Old Testament passages


    5. O‘Connor‘s penchant for statistics as useful points of reference, I find it equally appropriate to inquire into the (relative) absence of White Athletes in certain sports or positions, for that matter


    6. He established himself as successful businessman with roots in the waterfront and a penchant for philanthropy


    7. I had a feeling he would be attentive to Kelly considering his penchant for attractive young women


    8. His penchant for “crossing the aisle” in a “bipartisan spirit” was rewarded as might have been expected in the 2008


    9. They knew, of course, of Madeline's penchant for dirty nameless sex


    10. My pet peeve in dealing with the four roomies was their penchant for stealing my long neck Blatz bottled beers and leaving me a dime on top of the few remaining full bottles

    11. Mathematically minded individuals with a penchant


    12. ) The beach trip wasn’t much of a vacation for the kids when they were young, either, because with my penchant for aquariums, I had them dragging nets in the ocean and in Bogue Sound before they got too old to protest


    13. He had a penchant for attractive mature women and was visiting the casino with the idea that he might find someone for a one night stand


    14. One penchant of rationalists and action-heroes is to “make choices count”


    15. Three months sharing food, tent and transport with five others was going to make concealment of my penchant for attractive young men somewhat difficult, so after much agonising I'd decided to come clean


    16. That was unusual given his standard modus operandi and penchant for keeping to a fixed schedule


    17. In the meantime, do not become fixated with the solution residing in the concept of time, for all times are simultaneous and reason has a penchant for creating that which it does not grasp


    18. The first of these, Erasing Personal History, was what appealed greatly to me, now, because I had once experienced its positive affects: In what became my last year as a staffer at the CBC, I had been severely embarrassed by my fiancé leaving me, my own inexplicable (to me) penchant for unremitting profanity, and utter hubris in thinking that I was a shoe-in for a job I was not qualified for


    19. attraction because of his penchant for being a


    20. “I’ll be glad to,” Buster replied eagerly, having a penchant for assisting his older cousin in his complex investigations

    21. “By the way,” he said as he turned towards the foyer, recalling the staff’s penchant for gossiping, “did you tell anyone else about what you saw last night?”


    22. He will not be expecting you, so make sure Carla flutters her eyelashes and turns on her charm, he has a penchant for young girls


    23. with “chasing earnings” will turn into a penchant for technical analysis, which at first


    24. People have a penchant for believing that they’re here for a higher purpose and that they’ll certainly bear witness to unprecedented achievement, such as the final triumph of good over evil


    25. The security videos might have revealed whether Grobut had actually been in the bar or not, but a bar owner with a penchant for grainy black-and-white 15 fps silent videos of ugly girls undressing in front of even uglier bikers, had shattered his hopes


    26. They smiled at him as Hayes noted his penchant for seafood – the likely


    27. I finally reached the Place of No Pity almost ten years later, at the end of another partnership with a person who was trashing me emotionally (in my younger days I had a penchant for pretty, young, witchy women; which of course implies self-centered, immature, conflictive women)


    28. With an unmistakable penchant for unprofitability


    29. was for this reason, and perhaps his penchant for reading, that had brought him


    30. “What did you just almost call me? Were you starting to say ‘Brother Cadfael,’ the mystery novel monk from the Middle Ages who was an accomplished herbalist and who had a penchant for finding dead bodies and solving crimes

    31. “What is this penchant you have for dead bodies and intrigue, Brother?” asked the Bishop, when Brother Francis was just about seated


    32. “What did you just almost call me? Were you starting to say ‘Brother Cadfael,’ the mystery novel monk from the middle ages who was an accomplished herbalist and who had a penchant for finding dead bodies and solving crimes


    33. And the result was the penchant for taboo-less sex, which eventually transformed into free sex in the hippy movement of the sixties of the 20th century


    34. Is not the world better off owing to the penchant of the Christian missionaries in setting up schools to impart secular education and build hospitals to provide health care in every nook and corner of the globe?


    35. This miraculous incident, more fantastic than the one at the Battle of Badr, would illustrate the Arab penchant for the fanciful ‘birds of war’, much before the Quran gave them authenticity with its scriptural sanction


    36. Well, the penchant of the Musalmans to perceive that Islam is in Danger over issues trivial, not to speak of matters prophetical, is the bane of social harmony in this world


    37. Maybe the plight of Pakistan then could shape the mind of the Indian Musalman but one should be wary of the Muslim penchant to blame the kafirs for the Islamic ills of their own and of their God’s making


    38. Even beyond the boundaries of belief, it is the penchant of the faithful, not just the Musalman, to assert that all that is there to know can be found in between the covers of their religious scriptures


    39. And compounding their misery is their penchant to rear more children than their means would will, and that either forces them to reduce their progeny into child labor or consign them to the madrasa education, which only cultivates the fundamentalist mindset that is inimical to their economic wellbeing


    40. If one were to count the maimed Shias and the mutilated Sunnis; the vicious nature of the self-directed Islamic terror would be apparent, but won’t the silence of the maulanas eloquently expose the hollowness of Islam that is touted by the umma as the religion that has everything to know, whatever is there to know? But, try as they might, the moulvi-mufti combine would find nothing in the Quran-hadith-sunna trilogy that remotely can be seen as a clue to the worst challenge Islam had to face more than ever now; that is, given the penchant of the Musalmans to take every illusory in ‘the trilogy’ for a lamppost on the ‘straight path’ of life

    41. Cassy has a strong penchant in collecting cars


    42. "Mom, what is with this penchant for hanging out


    43. I -um- guess I forgot to mention my mother’s other tendency, which is her penchant to feed anyone within a fifty mile radius of her, especially if she feels they aren’t eating properly or well enough


    44. What happens, in reality, is that the clever white men use their religious sermons and subtle compulsion tactics to weaken our spirit and courage of resistance, and by so doing actualise their penchant for domination and exploitation, penchant for our wealth and the control of all aspects of our life


    45. However, things had changed—Trevain found himself suddenly searching for the proverbial Devil whom he understood to have a penchant for haunting the details


    46. "I know your penchant for such things and almost the first thought I had was that you'd prefer it that way


    47. It was a risk, he knew; bankers had long memories, and a penchant for records


    48. This truth about our ancestors must be faced and dealt with if we are ever to evolve beyond our penchant for mindless mass destruction and mass slaughtering… which our ancestors practiced for at least 3


    49. Or to paint the elderly shoeshine boy sitting on a small stool behind the wooden chest with the footrest, waiting for the odd client with a few drachmas, the time to spare and a penchant for shiny shoes


    50. though, there is more than meets the eye, since the penchant for secrecy was the result of real danger



















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