I, a lesser writer, conceal my disposition, too; I like to keep my melancholy to myself.
A disposition to too readily forgive may also be symptomatic of a lack of self-respect, or indicative of servility, ordinarily viewed as moral infirmities or vices (Novitz, 1998).
Infatuation, with 5 00 a.m. calls and a hot and cold disposition, is too volatile.
By 1960, however, people were using the term to describe a personal or collective disposition that ran too deep to be accessible to cursory introspection.
Both appeared before Justice Farber on Tuesday, and their cases were put off until April 9 for disposition, indicating they, too, were probably working on plea agreements.
We often attribute problems to subordinates' disposition ("Jeremy's too controlling") rather than their circumstances (e.g., perhaps Jeremy is delegating, but his subordinates have some other ax to grind).
The vice of testimonial injustice is a disposition to assign too little credibility to someone's testimony, often based on their social status (e.g. gender, ethnicity, class).
Just as a vase may remain fragile in virtue of having a disposition to break (in C) even if it never has been, and never will be, broken, so too the disposition to produce R in S in C may be instantiated even if no token of R ever occurs (past, present or future), no token of S ever exists (past, present or future), and no token of C ever obtains (past, present or future).
At the time, despite my hippie pre-disposition, the environment seemed too "out there". However, I trusted my intuition enough to send my kids to another somewhat alternative, small, liberal pre-school focusing on socialization, not academics.
On the Moor, Eythin criticised Rupert's dispositions as being drawn up too close to the enemy.
