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An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.
In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-century opera buffa, Salieri showed a penchant for experimentation and for mixing the established characteristics of specific operatic genres.
* Twelve red-bearded dwarfs, with a penchant for farcical litigation.
Film critics have often noted De Palma's penchant for unusual camera angles and compositions throughout his career.
He is the only person that has that peculiar something called ' audience appeal ' in sufficient quality to defy the popular penchant for movies that talk.
Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.
Chardonnay socialist is a derogatory Australasian term used to describe those on the political left with comfortable middle or upper-class incomes, tertiary education, and a penchant for the finer things in life, Chardonnay being a form of white wine for example.
This allowed Barks to indulge his penchant for elaborate backgrounds that hinted at his thwarted ambitions of doing realistic stories in the vein of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.
His penchant for the rugged life often took him to cold and damp situations, both in the long term as in Catalonia and Jura, and short term, for example, motorcycling in the rain and suffering a shipwreck.
This was more to preserve the logical precision of the argument than due to a penchant for polytheism.
The two shared a mutual penchant for cocaine and heroin, and as a result, the sessions were largely unproductive, with Parsons eventually losing interest in the project.
Most remarkable is Sushruta's penchant for scientific classification:
The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.
With David Angel's atmospheric string and horn arrangements giving the work a conceptual underpinning, Lee explores mainstream America's penchant for paranoia (' The Red Telephone ') and violence (' A House Is Not a Motel ') with songs that are as sonically subtle and lilting as they are lyrically blunt and harrowing.
The first five games in the series concern the renegade guardian of the planet Terra (" Earth " in Latin ), named Sheltem, who becomes irrevocably corrupted, developing a penchant for throwing planets into their suns.
The 1880s saw the club develop a penchant for inter-colonial travel with trips to Tasmania ( 1881 / 1887 ) and South Australia ( 1889 ).
Britain's Deviants, in the late 1960s, played in a range of psychedelic styles with a satiric, anarchic edge and a penchant for situationist-style spectacle presaging the Sex Pistols by almost a decade.
He also demonstrated a penchant for learning, and, according to Cristoforo di Piacenza, he was without famiglia in an age of nepotism, although once in the papal chair he elevated four cardinal-nephews and sought to place one of them in control of Naples.
During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

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This generation is also sometimes referred to as the Boomerang Generation or Peter Pan Generation, because of the members ' perceived penchant for delaying some rites of passage into adulthood, longer periods than most generations before them.
As a result, his penchant for destruction has become so widely known and feared that just the news of Groo approaching is sometimes enough to cause chaos when the population reacts to the impending disaster.
She is sometimes mistaken for Rinrin due to their similar hairstyles and their penchant for donning their eyewear on their head.
He has a penchant for voicing characters who are supposedly jokers, but sometimes hide a more insidious nature ( e. g. Emishi Haruki, Loki, Joker in Flame of Recca ).
This is often due to the aforementioned nebulousness of band council relevance, and the band councils sometimes penchant for corruption.
Peter has a penchant for misinterpreting people's orders, and sometimes for even forgetting his own name.
In the various series, Ryoko is portrayed as being impulsive, hedonistic ( with a penchant for sake ), poor-mannered, often immodest, recklessly violent, and hot-tempered although she sometimes reveals her more emotional and vulnerable side.
One contributing factor to those doubts is that players sometimes show a penchant for making a greater percentage of his free throws when the Hack-a-Shaq strategy is being employed against them than they do on the whole.
Renge has a penchant for eating obsessively, yet she is always thin ( sometimes when she eats a lot, she is shown to have a belly ).
Because of their penchant for high altitudes and low temperatures, they are rarely sighted by humans, but sometimes help shepherds round up lost sheep.
It was prompted either, as the Boston Globe speculated, by Youkilis complaining about Ramirez having been slow in joining his teammates in a bench-clearing brawl two innings earlier ( lagging behind even the team's pitchers, who ran in from the bullpen ), or by Ramirez objecting to what he believed was excessive complaining by Youkilis about the strike zone, as well as the first baseman's penchant for sometimes throwing his helmet in frustration after making an out.

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Clutton inculcates a strong team atmosphere backstage and manages to persuade international singers to give their time at lower remuneration than they might ordinarily expect, whilst Volpe drives the business, has a penchant for obscure late Italian opera which Clutton translates brilliantly to the stage, and develops the audience and sponsors along similar dedicated lines.

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Gobel's hesitant, almost shy delivery and penchant for tangled digressions were the chief sources of comedy, more important than the actual content of the stories.

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In the Making The Amazing documentary on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, both Tobey Maguire and Bruce Campbell jokingly describe Raimi's penchant for " abusing " actors: In order to get realistic closeups of a character getting hit by debris, Raimi usually stands just off-camera throwing items, swinging tree branches, etc., at the actor who is at the center of the shot.
Basil, showing the penchant for ruthlessness that would become his trademark, took the field himself and suppressed the rebellions of both Skleros ( 979 ) and Phokas ( 989 )
" Given their penchant for blacksmithing, many scholars believe the legend of the Cyclopes ' single eye arose from an actual practice of blacksmiths wearing an eyepatch over one eye to prevent flying sparks from blinding them in both eyes.
* In both Italian and French folklore, magpies ' penchant for picking up shiny items is thought to be particularly directed towards precious ones.
In keeping with his penchant for both championing and mocking the culture that he loved, during the Big Band era revival in the mid-1960s he produced a record album of 1930s songs, Vo Vo De Oh Doe, inspired by ( and covering ) The New Vaudeville Band's one-hit wonder, " Winchester Cathedral.
Despite their penchant for recklessness, the group was tolerated as they were able to earn millions for the families, specifically the Bonanno and Gambino families, as both Carmine Galante and Carlo Gambino used zips for narcotics and murder.
By strange coincidence, Giles and Bremner would both score exactly 115 goals for the club, casting doubt on the modern penchant for " holding " midfield players.
* Ken Anderson ( Kevin Jackson ) – Geneva's first long-term serious boyfriend since her divorce ; was a member of the Army Reserve, but also had a penchant for baking ; would propose to Geneva in season five, but both ultimately decided to slow things down ( Seasons 3-4 ; guest star in Season 5 )
There is no doubt that Wulfstan had a penchant for law ; his knowledge of previous Anglo-Saxon law ( both royal and ecclesiastical ), as well as ninth-century Carolingian law, was considerable.
His public persona – the character he played both in his songs and his movies – was of a humorous mobster with a penchant for whisky and women.
She acquired a penchant for performing at an early age ; both she and her older brother Stephen attended a local dance school, and they also performed a dance act together on stage.
The title has a double meaning, referring to both the band's ability to play as fast as they could ( there are 17 songs crammed into 26½ minutes ) and their penchant for amphetamine pills.
Verena and Tinka are the school's primary troublemakers ; both mock an uptight hall monitor named Abigail " Abby " Sawyer ( Cook ), who has a penchant for tattletaling, and Verena regularly buys cigarettes from a lunch cook and is constantly late for classes.
The ballet reflects both the ideal of the aesthetic of Les six to combine popular forms of art ( CF Cocteau " Le Coq et L ' Arlequin "), and a centuries-old French penchant for exotica.
Whitsitt, commonly known as " Trader Bob " for his penchant for making blockbuster deals, has met with mixed success in both leagues.
Akutsu has a penchant for setting petrol fires, and has made a nemesis of Toshiki Kamishima of the Satsuriku Butai ( Butcher Fighting Gang ) for causing him serious injuries in this way when they were both members of the second-generation Midnight Angels.
Another " bits and pieces " collection, Boots followed in 2003, the title being both McNabb ’ s nickname ( after his penchant for wearing Beatles-style boots in the mid-80s while with The Icicle Works ), and a reference to the ‘ official bootleg ’ nature of the release.

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