Sentence examples for disposed to call from inspiring English sources

If a speaker or group of speakers is disposed to call a new thing by an old word, the thing and the term will be causally connected.

Although their drafty hillside A-frame house was built by a local hardware-store owner favorably disposed to what Mr. Martin calls "'70s glam," it does offer artistic inspiration: a triple-wide picture window with a swooping view of trees and sky.

Still, Paramount was disposed to listen when NBC executives, disdaining the call of the ski slopes, came calling.

"It's human nature to be disposed to liking the donor, taking their phone calls and doing something nice in return," he told me.

To me Shakespeare's Prospero seems a morally upright man who calls his enemies to account but has long been disposed to forgive them.

The dramatist, on the other hand, called onto adapt his play, is usually found to be more naturally disposed to do the work effectively.

(He also calls it a moral rule to have internalized a rule against stealing consists in being disposed to respond negatively to stealing).

Others are disposed to listen.

He was not disposed to taking sides.

Trop., biting, disposed to bite.

He was disposed to laugh at first.