Sentences with phrase «great penchant»

With an interesting hairstyle and a stud to flaunt his left ear, Mowatt appears to have a great penchant for rapping.

What I love most about bone broths is how sustainable they are, as it truly uses the whole animal and true to form, I do love a bit of nose to tail eating (I am half - Chinese and half - French after all probably the two culinary traditions with the greatest penchant for truly eating the whole animal).

For those familiar with Eskil Vogt's screenplays for the Joachim Trier directed Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, Vogt's own feature directorial debut carries with it the same sensitive, melancholic touches of Trier's work, with a greater penchant for the narrative byzantine and bizarre.

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An unidentified and presumably modern - day narrator can only hint at Arsenius the Great as namesake, though this is mostly conjecture grounded in Arseny's and the anchorite's shared penchant for silence.

I wonder if Han will allow that it has been progressivism's penchant for endless critique that has done a great deal to diminish the traditional authority of non-economic relations, preparing them for colonization by the market.

The first horn is of primary interest in this debate, because Professor Cobb has shown a strong penchant for the notion of regional inclusion, a notion he acknowledges to be, at least explicitly, unrecognized by Whitehead, but which he, Cobb, finds (1) quite compatible with the Whiteheadian conceptuality and (2) of great philosophical usefulness.

In more recent years, the NCCB has generally contained the penchant for issuing comprehensive pronouncements on great public policy questions where the Church's authoritative teaching is not univocally clear.

I find liberals and their penchant for using the fed gov as their bully boy to be much greater threats to personal freedom than religious nuts.

Claude Makelele, a player Kante often finds himself compared with, has said he just needs to find a penchant for leadership within to become a truly great player.

So, if your holiday shopping list includes someone with a great sense of style or a penchant for hats you can find Brooklyn Hat Co. creations at Fred Segal, Kitson, Free People, Rulala, and Urban Outfitters.

The TU: «For all his legislative success — greater tax fairness, balanced budgets, gay marriage, and even the gun control law, for all its flaws — Mr. Cuomo stands on notice that his penchant for short - circuiting how laws are supposed to be made is increasingly unacceptable to supporters and detractors alike.»

Kruger's penchant for self - service was clear from his actions as a legislator: he formed the «four amigos» caucus to demand greater power and perks from his Democratic superiors, including his status as the top Democrat on the powerful Finance Committee.

Small, furry and with a penchant for insects, the greatest grandparent of all modern placental mammals lived after the dinosaurs were wiped out

Meet our last common mammalian ancestor Small, furry and with a penchant for insects, the greatest grandparent of all modern placental mammals lived after the dinosaurs were wiped out.

In a supporting role as Giacometti's beleaguered wife, who endures her husband's penchant for prostitutes, the great, undervalued French actress Sylvie Testud strikes the film's most resonant note.

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.

His father fought and died in the Great War, and as a young man, he was and still is constantly bullied for his small stature and penchant for sticking up for himself and others.

As is probably clear by now, Tea Party Simulator 2015 certainly bears a great deal of similarity to Surgeon Simulator as it shares that game's penchant for forcing players to interact with worldly objects in the least elegant way possible.

The story — about a law - enforcer who is sent on a wild goose chase by a villain with a penchant for playing games, literally — would require someone with some great physical, action abilities coupled with charm and humour, and Lee would be perfect.

MacFarlane has a well - established penchant for pop - culture references and celebrity cameos in his projects, and Ted 2 continues that tradition with some fun re-appearances from the first film, as well as some new additions that will be great for fans of films and / or MacFarlane's animated universe.

He fantasizes in great detail about his own funeral (a brilliant sequence) and has his sights set on pretty Jordana (Yasmin Paige, Murderland) who has eczema and a penchant for bullying.

And while Little Accidents is no great shakes formally — its sole visual flourish is Colangelo's penchant for shooting emotionally charged scenes from a distance, which is likely motivated by a desire to avoid histrionics — it does create a clear picture of a community in which even the relatively affluent, like Bill and Diane, are essentially just middle - class.

When everybody else is trying to make mirrors disappear for aerodynamic purposes, replacing them with rear - facing video cameras, Horacio Pagani, a short guy with a great head of silver hair and a penchant for quoting Leonardo da Vinci, comes along and sticks out mirrors so they can cleanse California hillsides of skateboarders.

The organization felt Armstrong had a great nose for scents, but his penchant for walking around puddles made him inappropriate as a guide dog.

My second was a cocker spaniel mix that was rescued and a great dog but had a penchant for biting people because she was abused and I currently have a 70 pound, 3 year old Brindle and White Pit Bull that we rescued and he is the most loving and kindest dog I've ever been around.

If you and your family have a penchant for the great outdoors, foodie adventures, and arts and culture, Adelaide beckons for your next getaway.

The thin plot is combined with a lack of interesting characters outside of Styx himself, who has a penchant for dropping perfectly timed f - bombs and has a great voice actor working to bring him to life.

Cassie is capable of slowing down time, you see, which is great for escaping from pesky people armed with guns and a penchant for aiming said guns at your face.

When I'm not writing for other sites, editing for this one, spending time with friends and family, modeling, or hiking in the woods then I'm probably playing a third - person action - adventure game that has a penchant for story and great characters.

His quick speed, melee capabilities, and penchant for pro-wrestling moves would make him not only an entertaining entry but be a great promotion for his upcoming sequel.

Eric Peterson is a multi-successful producer with a penchant for negotiating great deals and motivating his team through inspiration and example.

If you have a penchant for great storytelling in any form of media then you should grab this game right away.

In espousing perversely anachronistic fantasies, each of these loops back to what Atkins attempts to illustrate with «Old Food»: there's no chance of escape, not when the great outdoors is continually repackaged and sold back to us, and the penchant of theatre is to circuitously restage elaborate conceits.

I must add that Monckton also seems to increase the readers» penchant to think and articulate with extreme precision and a great deal of linguistic beauty here.

«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»

What we seem not to note, however, is that some of the great thinkers of Rome were quite concerned by what they viewed as Rome's penchant for inappropriate behaviors.

Manufactured by Huawei, the Nexus 6P does a fantastic job with combining Huawei's penchant for great design and build quality with Google's pure software package, and with some additional features and key improvements being made, what we finally have here is a Nexus smartphone that can give any other flagship device a run for its money.

It does a fabulous job playing regular Blu - rays — be they upscaled to 4K or run in HD — and it's a great fit for anyone with a high - end audio system and growing penchant for DSD music files.

The name alone calls attention to the company's penchant for great sound, while the conspicuous presence of its high - priced cans in audio forums across the web gives HiFiMan a seat at a very auspicious table.

If you love animals or have a penchant for the great outdoors, there is a wide range of opportunities out there for school leavers to consider.

If you have a penchant for traditional style, The Great George hotel on Prince Edward Island is just for you.