Sentence examples for a powerful tendency from inspiring English sources

"American society," Foner says, "has a powerful tendency to homogenize blacks, whatever their own preferences".

Kahneman's argument is that human beings have a powerful tendency to over-estimate their own abilities, to think they can, say, pick stocks better than their peers.

When a "colorful" celebrity has achieved some sort of sustained and nominally respectable worldly accomplishment (record sales, business success, public office), and has been around long enough to acquire the appealing vulnerability of old age, and has not been convicted of a capital crime, there's a powerful tendency to go all warm and fuzzy on him.

So if "The Class" is not a documentary, it nonetheless documents a powerful tendency in contemporary cinema, one that is implicitly ranged against the lavish forays into fantasy, allegory and historical mummery that dominate commercial movie-making around the world (especially in Hollywood).

By Hendrik Hertzberg When a "colorful" celebrity has achieved some sort of sustained and nominally respectable worldly accomplishment (record sales, business success, public office), and has been around long enough to acquire the appealing vulnerability of old age, and has not been convicted of a capital crime, there's a powerful tendency to go all warm and fuzzy on him.

The market's ups and downs may be unpredictable, yet there is a powerful tendency for funds that do relatively well in bull markets and badly in bear ones (or conversely) to continue to behave that way.

So there is a powerful bandwagon tendency in humans generally, and in markets specifically; and during this bubble it exerted a powerful influence.

On the other there was a powerful centralising tendency under the Bourbon kings and, later, under Franco which sought to iron out diversity, instil obedience to Madrid and limit if not abolish autonomy.

Against the grain of much recent historiography — and in the teeth of a powerful literary tendency going back to the end of the 19th century — she defended John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards and their descendants against the usual charges of intolerance, prudery and parsimoniousness.

There is a powerful, pervasive tendency, among philosophers, social scientists, and laypeople to dismiss their self-appraisals as reflecting ignorance, self-deception, defensive exaggeration, or courageous optimism [see SEP entry on "Feminist Perspectives on Disability", Sec. 3].

For Sanders, uncertain as much of his performance was in the debate, it represents a powerful political tendency.