Anyone of a squeamish disposition may want to avoid a certain room at the National Portrait Gallery, which today displayed its latest, £300,000, acquisition: 10 pints of the artist Marc Quinn's frozen blood in a self-portrait cast of his head, sitting zen-like on a concealed refrigeration unit.
She developed an anxious, jumpy disposition, and workmates began to avoid her at lunch.
Officials said that the White House had pushed privately for a quick disposition and an undramatic punishment to avoid turning Campbell into a martyr.
A 1992 decision argued that, in the absence of a prior agreement about the disposition of pre-embryos, the party wishing to avoid procreation should prevail if the other party had a reasonable alternative option for becoming a parent.
Many deny that it is an ideology, or even a political philosophy, regarding it instead as a disposition that resists theoretical expression a "non-ideology" that attempts to avoid the errors of ideologies (Graham 1986: 172; in contrast, Nisbet 1986).
The WRX looks strange, ugly or cool, depending on your disposition, which means you may be driven to another car just to avoid driving the Subaru.
people with trusting dispositions co-operate better, whereas people with distrusting predispositions tend to avoid co-operative activities, fearing exploitations.
What the fans want Given the signings and our general disposition towards Morrissey-levels of miserablism, most Os fans would probably be happy to avoid relegation.
It is argued that a university president must choose his words carefully, to avoid giving offence or discouraging women students of a presumably nervous disposition.
