penchant

He has a penchant for saying what many other writers and scholars know but either can’t say or can’t say clearly and without a thousand qualifications.

Delgado chalks up his health to the fact that he’s been a pescatarian for 45 years, with a penchant for salmon, avocados, quinoa and garbanzo beans, and that he prioritizes hydration.

He has a penchant for Northern California, where 25 of his cat burglary-style robberies have been staged.

Only a penchant for silly absurdity, and a stomach for puppet-on-puppet violence, is required.

The claim was swiftly derided by experts who said the main study cited by proponents of this theory was strewn with errors and it was yet another example of Kennedy's penchant for "pseudoscience."