(1) History in Edinburgh has a peculiar penchant for throwing together people, politics and passion.(2) Both women had a penchant for people with titles, even spurious ones.(3) Photographs show her as glamorous with a penchant for fashions with a nipped-in waist and large hats.(4) We thought he was a great big fat squeaky-voiced cricketer with a tiresome penchant for laddish behaviour.(5) he has a penchant for adopting stray dogs(6) Those with a penchant for acting on the silver screen need not be disappointed.(7) This year's federal election campaign still suggests a penchant for refusing to confront reality.(8) Just ask its programming boss, an energetic philosophy graduate with a penchant for John Stuart Mill.(9) As well as a love of vegetables he has a penchant for historical documentaries.(10) He also has a penchant for catchy one-liners, ideally suited to television.(11) You may have guessed that I have a penchant for love poems, well I suppose I'm just an old romantic at heart.(12) Are you a 13-16 year old girl with a penchant for acting and a future as bright as the sun itself?(13) The Bulgarian has a penchant for going to ground easily under challenges.(14) Anyone with a penchant for numbers can have a go at guessing the number of coffee beans in a huge jar on the day to receive a prize.(15) We've all encountered characters with a penchant for telling tall tales.(16) The most important of these tendencies are a deep passion for equality itself and a penchant for independent action.