Sentence examples for certain tendency from inspiring English sources

His published works show a certain tendency toward repetition.

It's become a tiresome cliche that "all Australian films are depressing" – a dig at a certain tendency towards social realism.

But we might recognize in its essential logic a certain tendency to transform political conflicts into matters of biological hostility.

A certain tendency to delinquency continued after he and his brother returned to England towards the end of the war and he attended Westminster school.

There is a certain tendency to pre-judge what audiences want: "Our audiences are mostly older rural people and this is too off the wall for them".

Truffaut, in "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema," a savage 1954 essay in Cahiers, made it clear whom they had in mind.

It also crystallises certain tendencies in the art world, the kind of work routinely described as 'cutting-edge'.

It's trying to exploit certain areas and certain tendencies of their game, which will be difficult because I'm sure they'll be ready to play".

Is it true that different professions have certain tendencies as a group, both good and bad, that could benefit from being managed?

By his account, the problem is basically structural: certain tendencies of the human mind interact badly with certain features of modern technology, much as certain prescription drugs interact badly with alcohol.

Students of the building projects favoured by London's former mayor, Boris Johnson, will have spotted certain tendencies – boosterism, implausible and contradictory promises, inattention to detail, inevitable disappointment when reality bites.