(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.

(17) The pictures show a country with a truly biased curriculum and a penchant for martyrdom.

(18) His penchant for tall, rakish women and strong, musclebound men is alive and well and still living in New York.

(19) She plays a New York socialite and actress who is a lousy mother and has a penchant for good-looking young men.

(20) That is a perennial weakness of princes - a penchant for false-hearted favourites.