The phrase "a proclivity toward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a natural inclination or tendency towards something, often in a more formal context.
Example: "She has a proclivity toward artistic expression, often spending hours painting and drawing."
Alternatives: "a tendency towards" or "an inclination for".
Shostakovich's "band" has an edge of nastiness and a proclivity toward hysteria.
Though accounts of what happened next vary widely, Kock's brief reign over the colony exhibited simultaneous signs of incompetence and a proclivity toward despotism.
The stock markets have had a proclivity toward big one-day wonders.
The latter, of course, gained his infamy not through a proclivity toward genocide or forced labor, but for moving the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles after the 1957 season.
People with histories of mental illness and a proclivity toward violence are not supposed to be able to purchase firearms in the United States.
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We applied Section K of the CIDI to students who displayed a proclivity towards psychiatric disorders.
Unfortunately, however well intended as protection from a genetic proclivity toward fiscal irresponsibility, the naked heel is but a magnet for the financial market's arrows of our hero's mortal demise.
If replicated by future studies, these preliminary findings suggest that the MAOA-L would confer a vulnerability to negative social experiences, including early trauma, and a specific proclivity toward reactive aggression, i.e. that type of aggression triggered by exaggerated levels of negative emotion, such as anger and anxiety.
Most of today's on-line customers exhibit a clear proclivity toward loyalty, and Web technologies, used correctly, reinforce that inherent loyalty.
