The old recipe for a good critic — Alexander Pope's recipe, for instance — was taste, learning and genius, by which Pope meant something like proclivity.
Wallace, a lean, well-mannered fellow in his late thirties, never considered naming it after himself; that sort of thing simply isn't done nowadays, unless, say, you happen to be a zoologist with Trump-like proclivities.
These conversations reminded me that while thinking entrepreneurially has a huge potential upside, some of the attributes involved, like a proclivity for taking risks or a tendency to be overly persistent, can also present challenges.
Seizing upon issues like the proclivity to piracy in an Internet environment and the need to pay artists and labels for the right to broadcast music, labels and the RIAA have put the squeeze on the fledgling web broadcasters.
Although it certainly seems like McCollum has a certain proclivity for exhibitionism on bus benches.
Such statutes have been upheld in the context of people with a demonstrated proclivity toward violent conduct, like sexual predators; the concept could be adapted, in a way that withstands constitutional scrutiny, to cover people with a demonstrated proclivity toward terrorism.
Well brought up and popular, he was the first in his family to trail neither his past nor his proclivities like a lead ball.
"Just because somebody has a proclivity to be something, like an alcoholic for example, doesn't mean we have to give them special protection," said Mr. Mabon, leader of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, which is behind Ballot Measure 9.
Most managers seem to have a natural proclivity to reward employees who are like them, perhaps as an indirect and legitimate way to admire themselves (a sort of narcissism by proxy).
Since millennials are the ones setting up new households and they have a proclivity to streaming sites like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, it isn't surprising that younger households are deciding to cut the cord with their traditional pay-TV services and are instead opting to rely on the internet for their entertainment needs.
He is, at his core, a pragmatist — one with a proclivity for publicity.
