ЭТИМОЛОГИЯ СЛОВА PENCHANT
From French, from pencher to incline, from Latin pendēre to be suspended.
ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «PENCHANT»
Известные цитаты и высказывания со словом
penchant.
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.
Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'
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Penchant for Prejudice: Unraveling Bias in Judicial ...
Challenges the meaning of impartiality in the judicial system
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Penchant for the Primitive: Archaeology, Ethnography, ...
This dissertation examines how the various factions of Russian modernism understood and employed the category of the "primitive" from roughly 1890-1930.
Michael Mitsuo Kunichika,
2007
Shefali Patel. a. penchant. For. éw. a novel. shezfali. Patel. a penchant for LOVE
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The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English ...
L'uc fortune penchante, a l'alling, totterlng fortune. PENCHANT. s. a. Sur le
penchant d'une colline, on the declivity—slan—ol' a bill. (Fig.) Il est sur le
penchant de sa ruine. he is on the Verge ot' min. Sa jbrtune est sur son penchant.
hil good ...
John Charles Tarver,
1867
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France ...
(chapter. 9). The. Penchant. for. Absolutism. We witnessed a strange billboard
campaign during our first winter in Paris. The walls of every subway station were
plastered with two huge black-and- white pictures, one of an army officer in his ...
Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow,
2003
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The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the ...
This penchant for self-criticism largely emanated from the political left, which was
responding to Britain's fall from great-power status. Believing that Btitain needed
to abandon its traditional separatism from, and ultimately link its fate to, the ...
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld,
2005
Concernant la notion de ces logismoi il est généralement admis qu'elle est l'
équivalente du mauvais penchant rabbinique, ainsi J. Daniélou: «Origène
reprend ici (il s'agit de Prin III, 2) la théorie du yêsér /гага, qu'il traduit par
ттоугфос ...
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The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney
Cheney's. Penchant. for. secrecy. Where's. dick?” was the most frequently asked
question across thecountry in the weeks after september 11, 2001. Cheney wasn'
t home behind the high wrought-iron fence of number one observatory Circle, ...
Shirley Anne Warshaw,
2009
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Smoke and Mirrors: Making the Transformation to Nonsmoker a ...
Since childhood I've a penchant for being either very good or very bad. When I
penchant for being either very good or very bad. When I penchant for being either
very good or very bad. When I penchant for being either very good or very bad.
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Cities in Transition: Growth, Change and Governance in Six ...
4. Toronto. A. penchant. for. Metro. reform. Toronto provides a unique example of
the ways in which a provincial government responded to urban change, fiscal
concerns and political uncertainty by focusing on metropolitan reform. It is a city ...
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The Baseball Hall Of Fame's Class Of 2015 Shines With An …
... Cy Young Awards and 735 career victories as well as a member of the 3,000 hit club whose penchant for doubles was turned into an art form. «Forbes, Июл 15»
In the 1980s we failed the young. We still do
That very word “penchant”! Frenchified, suavely mandarin, itself a period piece from the age of Sir Humphrey Appleby. But still more startling ... «The Times, Июл 15»
Inside Out review – an emotional rollercoaster
... 2 and Monsters University and 2012's well-intentioned but forgettable Brave, it seemed as if the studio had lost its penchant for exotic risk. «The Guardian, Июл 15»
Ellison says Trump can win GOP nod, points to Minn. electing …
... is sizable in number and consumed with the bombastic New Yorker's penchant for dropping verbal bombs regarding immigrants from Mexico ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Июл 15»
First Draft | Strong Showings for Donald Trump in Iowa and New …
Mr. Trump — the New York real estate tycoon and reality television host turned 2016 Republican presidential hopeful with a penchant for ... «New York Times, Июл 15»
Ad-blockers – blessing or curse for the free internet?
One of the nice things about being married to an American – apart from the penchant for substantial cooked breakfasts and alt-country music ... «Stuff.co.nz, Июл 15»
Lalu fasts for caste census data release, calls Modi 'Kaliya Naag'
Lalu, known for his penchant for the dramatic, arrived at the fast venue at Gandhi Maidan on a tonga, horse drawn carriages that are being ... «IBNLive, Июл 15»
Westminster paedophile scandal casts shadows over British …
Among them was a November 1986 note from the director-general of MI5 to the cabinet secretary, referring to an MP with "a penchant for small ... «Stuff.co.nz, Июл 15»
Three for the Money: Carly, Walker, and Cruz
Carly Fiorina, however, with her penchant for the main shot, did not ignore the issue. In interviews with CNN's Jack Tapper and Fox and Friends ... «American Thinker, Июл 15»
Why does it seem Dr Phillips is in election mode?
The myriad revelations of abuse and misuse of State resources in recent years testify to the duplicitous penchant of the Government. This Portia ... «Jamaica Observer, Июл 15»