Sentence examples for comes to prefer from inspiring English sources

Bruckner gives the example of Veronica, who initially prefers to become an Olympic competitor in tennis, but after years of practice realizes that even though she is very talented at tennis, she will not achieve Olympic status, and so downgrades her aspirations and comes to prefer to be a local star, a change in preference that might occur behind her back and thus be non-autonomous (313).

Chick and Alise are drawn together by a preoccupation with the philosopher Jean Sol Partre (you can guess the model here), yet Chick comes to prefer the philosopher to Alise.

Harclay uses the term 'toward-ness' (aditas) in his question on relations (see "Utrum Dei," n. 50), whereas Aquinas often uses 'disposition' (habitudo) or 'relative disposition' (relativa habitudo), and eventually comes to prefer 'order' (ordinatio).

Instead the Academy came to prefer the prestige-enhancing qualities of drama, preferably drama with a contemporary social theme, based on an important literary source and performed by deglamorized stars playing against type.

Stone came to prefer working on these kinds of race.

Again, this is how Mr. West has come to prefer to work: more output than input.

I consider it optional largely because I've come to prefer leaner, simpler risottos.

He has come to prefer the people, the social scene, even the food.

But over time, I have come to prefer simplicity over an exhausting complexity and numbing elaboration.

It was English, which I had absorbed during my hospital stay, that I came to prefer.

They adjusted, and in some cases came to prefer well-designed automated systems over human assistance.