(1) And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic.

(2) She became an inveterate party-goer and embraced the u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510New Looku251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb promoted by Christian Dior, with the figure to wear the accompanying tight-waisted skirts and high heels.

(3) Jarecki succeeds brilliantly, because he had access to tapes and videos made by the Friedmans themselves, a family of manic talkers and inveterate home movie-makers.

(4) I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.

(5) In typically home-spun style, it tells the story of Bob, an inveterate procrastinator who is great at accomplishing meaningless tasks but not so hot at getting round to what really matters.

(6) An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant.

(7) He was a congenital reformer, an inveterate crusader.

(8) In the meantime, you may savor the irony of how this inveterate critic of liberal media bias exposed his own bias in such an extraordinary manner.

(9) Nice touch for this inveterate jazz fan is the fact that Nick owns a jazz club and who should be performing there but the excellent house band.

(10) They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.

(11) An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.

(12) He doesn't deal in heroes and villains, not even loveable rogues, and that's frightening stuff for an inveterate good guy.

(13) One of the pleasures of the TV show, The Simpsons is Homer's inveterate stupidity.

(14) Richard M. Nixon was an inveterate Cold Warrior whose interest in domestic affairs never matched his passion for foreign affairs.

(15) Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control.

(16) He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.

(17) The problem is that Fausto, though essentially kind, is an inveterate skirt chaser, and none too discrete at that.

(18) I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to.

(19) An inveterate multi-tasker, she's been a model, soundtrack composer, charity activist and personal performer to the British royal family.

(20) For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government.