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Example sentences for: penchant

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The upstart did not just so much challenge Cosby as envelop it: In perhaps the most sustained of the winking pop-culture references for which it has become famous (and on which it came to depend rather too heavily as time went on), The Simpsons soon featured an avuncular African-American physician with a penchant for multicolored sweaters.
Instead, his penchant for exhaustive research seems to flow from a genuine social commitment.
He doesn't get a sexual charge out of the brutality, nor does he develop a penchant for torturing innocents.
(It also signaled a penchant for the convenience, and risk, of cheating at home--a trait for which Kennedy was known.)
Bettelheim's penchant for heroic narrative certainly did bolster his popular image, though Pollak gives ample evidence that his insistence on blaming mothers and claiming miracles also invited skepticism from parents and psychiatrists.