Примеры употребления для inveterate gambler
1. Housed in an exquisite town house once occupied by the Georgian dandy and inveterate gambler Beau Brummell, it was Lord Lucan‘s home from home in the Sixties.
2. In "Ignorance, Confidence and Filthy–Rich Friends," Peter Krass takes his readers on a tour of these business adventures and concludes that the man of letters was "motivated by a relentless desire to accumulate great wealth." Krass said Mark Twain was an inveterate gambler and speculator and even set aside work on his future masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, to devote time to inventing a children‘s trivia game that he thought would make money.
3. By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) – Star Wars star Ewan McGregor returns to the London stage on Wednesday for the first time in six years to play inveterate gambler Sky Masterson in a revival of the classic 1'50s musical "Guys and Dolls". But he is refusing in his interpretation to make any comparisons with Marlon Brando, who immortalised the role in the 1'55 film alongside Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons.