Sentences with phrase «american penchant»

Despite the American penchant to do everything a little bit bigger, it's the Australians who claim the prize for world's largest homes.

Likely best known for the painting series «Wall of Light,» Scully has practiced a variation on the New York School, giving it a European sadness as well as continuing the American penchant for expressiveness.

The American penchant for expressive individualism means that most conservative religious parents often place a higher priority on the unique qualities of individual children and the prerogatives of parental choice than on church dogma.

Not exact matches

It is admitted by the American Hebrew writer that certain Jews are omitted in any such tabulation because of the penchant of certain Jews for adopting non-Jewish names, but it is contended with justice that some non-Jews with Jewish - sounding names will also be included so that the total error will be diminished.

Americans, with their penchant for therapy speak would call it denial.

Lani is the Chief Operating Officer at The American Genius and sister news outlet, The Real Daily, and has been named in the Inman 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders several times, co-authored a book, co-founded BASHH and Austin Digital Jobs, and is a seasoned business writer and editorialist with a penchant for the irreverent.

What sets Americans apart from the Dutch, Thais, and Costa Ricans is a penchant for violence that forces the cruelest brand of bigotry upon victims.

Preaching at the final festival service, church historian Martin Marty recalled Alfred North Whitehead's dictum, «Seek simplicity — and mistrust it,» and contrasted the American spirit of seeking simplicity with a European penchant for complexity:

After all, the process of relinquishing the most powerful job in the world isn't an easy one, especially given the American public's notoriously fleeting attention span and penchant for paying little heed to once - prominent political figures after they exit the public stage.

In a move reminiscent of the Buhari administration's penchant for blaming his administration's under - performance on his predecessor, American President Donald Trump has said that the «mess» he inherited from the Barack Obama administration is responsible fir the crisis engulfing his young administration.

A tireless investigator and a Nobel prize winner at a time when not many Americans were, he had a penchant for controversy in subjects ranging from cosmic rays (which he named) to the support of science

(Think the Dalai Lama, if the Dalai Lama had a penchant for stilettos, Mad Men and American Apparel tank tops.)

This 1980s button down tunic by Ralph Lauren embodies the designer's penchant for gentry culture and its related sporting style that influenced American dress.

Tuesday night, during a discussion moderated by Vanity Fair in LA, American Hustle's Oscar - nominated costume designer Michael Wilkinson opened up about working with the Dior - sanctioned actress — and getting around her penchant for artificially - colored snack chips.

Bradley Cooper seems to have a penchant for big bang films with The Hangover trilogy (dear God, why a trilogy), The A-Team, American Hustle, American Sniper, and the aforementioned Guardians of the Galaxy.

While rock iconoclast Jimi Hendrix perhaps most singularly personifies the era's penchant for innovation, his sister Janie Hendrix recalls that he never drifted far from his heritage, rooted in his part - Cherokee grandmother's professional musical experience: «He was very proud of being native and being African - American and being Scottish.»

The arrival of the film noir coincided with a new penchant, inspired by Italian neorealism, for moving out of the studio on occasion and onto the great rich set of the American city and its suburbs, a readily available set which became, sometimes with only minimal adjustment of light and shadow, fully as «Germanic» as anything constructed at Ufa in the Twenties.

Jordan is Erik Stevens, an American black - ops solider who grew up in Oakland and earned the nickname «Killmonger» because of his penchant for carnage.

Brooks, who is the subject of a new American Masters documentary, Make a Noise from filmmaker Robert Trachtenberg, that premieres May 20 on PBS, says his penchant for spoofing genres was firmly in the tradition of poking fun out of love.

American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction and Less Than Zero were all pretty faithful, quality adaptations that kept Ellis's sensational penchant for drugs, kinky sex and sociopathic detachment intact.

Those with a particular penchant for Family Guy or American Dad!

«Yes, it's a bit harsh, but considering Korean automakers» general penchant for the soft and cushy, I'm thankful that the American - spec Genesis didn't turn out to be a Korean Lincoln Town Car.»

Someone that doesn't have a penchant for American cars in particular will probably have to pass.

There's Carol, the infinitely glamorous American and her doting husband David; the erstwhile British TV star Sally; the ferocious Sian and her wayward Australian poet husband; the sharply witty Zoe with her strangely youthful face and penchant for white wine — and the suave Brian who catches Theresa's eye.

Deni Béchard was born in British Columbia to a loving and health - conscious American mother and a French Canadian father with penchant for crime and storytelling.

In celebration of the upcoming North American release of the new «Paddington» movie (in theaters on January 16th), adapted from the classic story about a lost bear with a penchant for Marmalade sandwiches, the athenaeum hotel and apartments is offering a special Paddington Bear package.

Figurative painter Mark Van Yetter relates how his penchant for American style and subject matter has persisted for twenty years.

If he reminds me of anyone, it's R.B. Kitaj, the late School of London fixture and American expat with whom Doig shares a penchant for primitivist draftsmanship and thinly applied color — though not, thankfully, the same pretensions to creating a form of contemporary history painting.

After Byars» death in 1997, in the suitably exotic setting of the Anglo - American hospital, Cairo, obituaries noted his penchant for dressing in gold suits, accompanied by a top hat and veil or, occasionally, a blindfold.

Pollock began to gain recognition under the advocacy of iconic critic Clement Greenburg, whose particular tastes and penchant for Formalism defined an entire generation of American art.

A Philadelphia native and Doylestown resident of the Worthington House between 1910 and 1926, Charles Sheeler (1883 — 1965) is recognized as one of the founding figures of American modernism for his pioneering work as both a painter and a photographer, with a particular penchant for industrial subjects.

By placing a group of his key works in juxtaposition with contemporaneous masterpieces by American and European peers, the show draws attention to the most powerful tool of the artist's practice: a lifelong penchant for experimentation with an ever - expanding arsenal of materials and techniques.

With a penchant for the American way of life and core values based on their parents» homeland, they have the pulse on both cultures and serve as a gateway for either market.

Lani is the Chief Operating Officer at The Real Daily and sister news outlet, The American Genius, and has been named in the Inman 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders several times, co-authored a book, co-founded BASHH and Austin Digital Jobs, and is a seasoned business writer and editorialist with a penchant for the irreverent.

In the coming years the progressive penchant for enforced densification — contrary to the preferences of most Americans — could cause some serious intra-party rifts, even in areas that today are reliably Democratic «blue.»