Sentence examples for characteristic tendency from inspiring English sources

In his three surviving landscapes, El Greco demonstrated his characteristic tendency to dramatize rather than to describe.

The encounter with Eliot brought out Groucho's characteristic tendency to hide his embarrassment about his origins by pushing them in his audience's face.

We don't doubt that Lyons has the real inside dope, but we suspect that his characteristic tendency to underplay his scoops has led him to water this one.

His study of the micas enabled him to explain their characteristic tendency to split into thin sheets on the basis of their internal atomic structure.

A characteristic tendency in Mqs2 is that they occurred intermittently, in contrast to those in Mqs1.

Because of the small number of objects, it is difficult to define any characteristic tendency.

The new display at Tate Britain, curated by Andrew Wilson, plays with some of these characteristic tendencies.

Further, Mqs2 and 3 have characteristic tendencies.

The current film controversy was ignited by Yale-NUS' all-too-characteristic tendency to scurry to the government for an exemption from the ban, instead of consulting first with Tan Pin Pin, who holds the rights to her film.

Now Berdan �� with what some might have called a characteristic Yankee tendency to impose standards and take all the fun out of things — had set out to form a regiment in which he could be certain that each and every one of his thousand-odd men was in fact a crack shot.

Or, for that matter, anyone who wants to correct one's own psychological characteristic or tendency, particularly if it happens to be pathological, cannot succeed in such self-correction if it is an essential characterization of one's being.