Sentences with phrase «own penchant»

From flying drones around her farm to collecting old computers to being one of the first investors in Google, the iconic domestic goddess has a penchant for technology.

Petite & Sweet staff set about creating a higher - end version of the Twinkie, incorporating their recent obsession with salted caramel, a rising trend in dessert offerings, as well as their penchant for ganache, into two Twinkie prototypes.

Freshii Inc. founder Matthew Corrin has a penchant for using open letters as a marketing tool to promote his health - conscious restaurant chain.

With her penchant for glitter nail polish and Crayola - colored hair, it's easy to forget that Chloe Kim isn't just an average 17 - year - old.

DiCaprio also struggles with his penchant for multi-year biopics.

Ardmore is technically in the suburbs, but like if the suburbs went on a year abroad and came back with cooler taste in music and clothes and had a sudden penchant for exotic food and drink.

The company has a brilliant leader with a penchant for wearing the same color turtleneck every day.

Our 33rd president had a penchant for saying what was on his mind, earning him the sobriquet «Give»em Hell, Harry!»

Conlon's unique penchant for recognizing potential business connections and later nurturing them into a fruitful enterprise has been one of the cornerstones of his success in the industry beginning with his founding of Conlon & Co., a real estate merchant bank, in early 2000.

Worthington, known for his action chops and penchant for blue people, plays the vet while Hill, better known for f - bombs than real ones, is the n00b (that's beginner in gamerspeak, you n00b).

I asked Finnegan for her advice in part because of her penchant for driving innovation forward.

Cohen is a street-wise New Yorker with a penchant for confrontation and a cultivated reputation as Trump's outside - the - courtroom problem - solver.

Maye's penchant for keeping optimistic and working hard appears to be inherited from her father, as she wrote on her Twitter and Instagram recently:» «Keep Smiling» was my Dad's motto.

It began more than a decade ago, when Cristal executive Frédéric Rouzaud decried rappers» penchant for bragging about their bottles of the pricey bubbly.

While Japan has seen many colors and flavors for KitKats before — its penchant for eccentric flavors such as wasabi or Hokkaido melon has attracted both locals and tourists — this is the first time ruby chocolate is going on sale since Barry Callebaut announced the innovation in September.

He later returned to Canada and eventually signed on to CBC's Dragons» Den in 2006, cultivating a reputation as a brutally honest capitalist with a penchant for hyperbole.

Besides fostering a collective penchant for brevity, the site has become an amazing resource for everyone from marketers in Silicon Valley to democratic activists in Tehran.

As an owner with a penchant for developing leaders and future owners of their own business I struggle with this daily.

In this atmosphere, Sapho is an anomaly: it's a hot young startup with a penchant for on - premise software.

A mustachioed Italian plumber with a penchant for jumping on the heads of his enemies is, unbelievably, one of the most popular video game characters in the world.

Being able to spot rising stars is also a necessity, along with a penchant for developing a celebrity's brand identity and reaching new audiences.

He and Confinity's other co-founder, Peter Thiel, became increasingly frustrated with Musk's penchant for micromanaging, as disagreements over technology and branding festered.

Given that unemployment in our market is still very high you would think finding these driven associates (future owners) would be as easy as picking daisies... not if you are selective, not if you want talented folks that will work hard, and not if you don't have a penchant for marketing to your audience.

Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling ebooks at low prices.

During the 1990s, it became famous for white - elephant spending, the most notorious example being its penchant for lining riverbeds with concrete.

After all, it's one thing to know that your customer has a penchant for collecting comic books; it's another to use that knowledge in your communications.

His tale, while not unadmiring, also urges caution about the Four's penchant for tax avoidance and privacy breaches.

A penchant for holding onto everything that might come in handy in the future, plus a generally nomadic existence (home to the midwest for the summers, back to New York for school semesters), meant that I lived in a semi-permanent state of bare - boned survival and clutter.

He's smart and does good work, but you cringe when you see him, and his lack of understanding social cues and penchant for saying inappropriate things means you live in lawsuit fear.

Evan Spiegel is already known for his penchant of riding a black SUV throughout Venice, and job listings show his security guards must come armed.

Dyson aims to lean less heavily on suppliers than traditional carmakers, partly because of a penchant for making components in house, and partly because electric cars contain substantially fewer bits than their combustion engine counterparts.

His capacity and penchant for deep thinking was one thing that distinguished him as a speculator.

All that plus Scotland's legendary penchant for deep - frying anything and everything?

It makes me wonder how many thousands of replies I haven't gotten over the years, due to my penchant for ending emails with «best» (as if I'd wanted to write, «best regards,» but just couldn't find the time.)

Why He's One to Watch: Craft's penchant for experimentation can be seen in the menu, which features fried pig's head and lamb with white chocolate hummus.

Our continental penchant for Aloha shirts waned, but our love of casual workwear remains.

Given his penchant for secrecy and surprise and his proven brilliance, it's a fair bet that he'll let us know when he's good and ready.

Some «frugalistas» might have a penchant for gardening and create their own harvest, while others enjoy the intimacy of tiny - house living.

The state's fashion industry is in a good place as its penchant for a creative approach to business opens opportunities.

Patton earned the reputation of having a uniquely gifted military mind, immense energy and a penchant for being blunt.

Among them was a press darling — a man whose brash reputation and penchant for public tirades had made him one of the city's most recognizable figures.

Spiegel's penchant for running his mouth didn't disappear upon graduation.

The Steam Machine will apparently come in different versions, in keeping with Valve's long - held admiration for open - source computing and Linux, and the PC audience's penchant for customization.

On the occasion of yet another downward revision in growth numbers, this time out of the U.S., it's a good time to take a quick survey of recent writing that just so happens to focus on the penchant among economists and the U.S. Fed to over-estimate growth predictions.

Musk turned one of his Boring Company flamethrowers on himself, serving himself a deep burn about Tesla sales reports, and his penchant for selling products that people can't believe are real.

This explains the penchant for fence - sitting and «wait and see» behavior.

As for Glickman's penchant for turning the company upside down to deliver on impossible promises, there are signs that, for better or worse, a certain pragmatism and even maturity may be setting in.

Like all successful business people, Corcoran has a penchant for putting in long hours when necessary.

The president hasn't exactly shown a penchant for dealing with congress sorts.

To be fair, Baker's penchant for outsourcing artificially inflates her company's productivity ratio.