Sentence examples for a tendency away from inspiring English sources

During the second half of the 20th century, there arose among certain avant-garde composers and performers a tendency away from any vestige of traditional structure.

These books are by authorities who were concerned with the realities of heraldry in their own day, but from the end of the 15th century a tendency away from the actual and toward the fanciful and absurd manifested itself.

There has been a tendency away from this in recent years, particularly with the preponderance of back-to-back Test matches putting a strain on bowling attacks, and a tendency for pitches to hold together better than once they might.

Rather than an indication that Miyamoto has taken up some unspeakable pastimes in recent years, his request indicates a shyness, a natural tendency away from the limelight.

There is a tectonic shift of consciousness occurring and an evolutionary tendency away from the mechanical and back toward the natural.

Conatus a centro, or "tendency towards the center", is used by Descartes as a theory of gravity; conatus recendendi, or "tendency away from the center", represents the centrifugal forces.

Mr. Collins first experimented with vests actually made out of paper, but they had a tendency to shred away.

So athletes have a tendency to give away money.

There is a tendency to steer away from parts that are really hard.

It is a "fugitive" resource, meaning it has a tendency to wander away—unlike, say, a stand of trees.

Kolb's eyes have a tendency to drift away from the field and toward the defensive line.