Definition of penchant | Bee Dictionary of English

Anyone with a penchant for used books must know that there exist quarters in most cities where there is a concentration of shops selling recycled books.
The Prime Minister rebuked the Minister for his penchant for attending parties and social events instead of taking care of urgent matters.
The entrepreneur became aware that banks have a penchant for attaching bizarre conditions for their loans and he became increasingly disenchanted.

Louisville baseball coach Dan McDonnell's also a motivator, whatever it might take
But now that he's head coach at the University of Louisville, McDonnell knows exactly what Port was trying to get across. Port is now deceased, but his penchant for constantly motivating players is well-entrenched with McDonnell, who has been using every available resource to prepare his team for the College World Series.
June 15, 2013 - Louisville Courier-Journal
'Man of Steel' producer shops for new Legendary studio partner
By Ronald Grover LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - No one has more riding on the outcome of the summer movie season than Thomas Tull, the former investment banker-turned-head of Legendary Pictures and a producer of this weekend's heavily hyped "Man of Steel." Tull, the financier with a penchant for comic books who raised $500 million in 2004 to start Legendary Pictures, is in the midst of Hollywood's ...
June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Treat addiction holistically
The May 12 article As pill mills fade away, heroin fills the void highlights a predictable trend in drug use, the result of America’s penchant to focus on one drug or another rather than the disease of addiction. The steps that Florida has taken to control the misuse of prescription drugs have been important and, to some extent, successful in reducing such misuse. But they have done little to ...
June 14, 2013 - Miami Herald

Phil Jackson in ESPN
Ron has a penchant for little things tripping him up in the process; incorrectly reading the board as to practice time today and not being on time to practice by a half an hour,Jackson said. "Those type of things are the things that...
Francis Collins in Forbes
Jim has a penchant for making outrageous comments that are basically poking society in the eye,Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, said Thursday.
Orhan Pamuk in FOXNews
The Turkish state's penchant for banning books and punishing writers unfortunately continues,Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel literature prize winner, said at the fair's official opening _ citing legislation that was used to prosecute him and...