Ms. Yunker, who said she takes the sea plunge with anyone who has polar-bear tendencies, promised that the heat would make my blood vessels dilate; the cold would then make them constrict.
Except for buying the surpluses, the other solutions bear a tendency of punishment to the surplus holder.
(And before you point out that this piece is confirmation of this tendency, bear in mind that I was invited to write it).
In addition to its agricultural and dietary values, the olive tree is particularly known for its tendency to bear fruits in an uneven manner (alternate bearing, biennial bearing, uneven bearing or periodicity) [ 1, 2].
As the largest member of the weasel family, equipped with the jaw pressure of a grizzly bear and a territory-marking odor that earns them the nickname "skunk bear," they have a tendency to leap at any soft neck tissue they see.
Bearing in mind their tendency to capitulate at the best of times, the Exiles did well to keep things respectable in his absence for the last 25 minutes.
Berg told me, "The rangers won't let us bring any living goats here if brown bears have displayed aggressive tendencies".
It turns out that the things we tend to disdain about political insiders — their familiarity, their excessive caution, their tendency to bore us with minutiae — are the very things we ultimately find lacking in a political novice.
Friends, who stop by, question the small size of Henry's new home (a size Johnson plays with in his illustrations by making the bear large, with a tendency to stick his head or leg through a window, and the house comparatively small), but he persuades them that the cabin is a good fit.
This tendency, one borne out of helplessness and frustration, is also defined by a certain mindset: that the world owes them success.
