Sentence examples similar to a proclivity for action from inspiring English sources

Its symptoms were rage, isolation, secretiveness, and a proclivity for repressive action, and its cause was a war whose necessity only Presidents and their advisers, it seemed, were able to fully understand.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them... breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and single hearted allegiance.

These proinflammatory actions of ANG II seem to have a proclivity for inducing kidney injury while having negligible actions in the pathogenesis of cardiac hypertrophy.

What happened was in marked contrast to the performance of the rebel fighters in their bastions in the east of the country, whose actions have been beset by incompetence and a proclivity for terrified retreat at the first sign of enemy fire.

Zack Snyder widens his view as a director with Man of Steel, taking a proclivity for creating startling images in the service of storytelling and using it to enlarge and expand the action.

And Bertie had a proclivity for it.

That, and a proclivity for collateral damage.

She had a proclivity for using fancy words.

He showed a proclivity for drawing early on.

But isn't a preoccupation with weapons itself evidence of a proclivity for violence?

His father was a stonemason who had diabetes as well as a proclivity for moonshine.