Predominantly determined by biological factors, temperament colors a moral agent's distinctive perspective and inclinations toward action.
While in the classical republican tradition, "fatherland" is synonymous with political institutions, for Herder, the nation is prepolitical and love of one's national culture is a natural inclination that allows a people to express their distinctive character.
In the latter two, the star was Henry Fonda, an actor who, like McCarthy, had a distinctive voice, an air of integrity and intelligence and a natural inclination to authoritarian roles.
Our results indicate that short-term nonstationarity in word statistics is strongly driven by individual proclivities, including inclinations to provide novel information and to project a distinctive social identity.
In short, there's nobody to challenge their punkish interests — for that matter, their punkishness isn't even an attitude, it's a minor and bloodless style statement, a matter of distinctive but unexceptionable haircuts and garments alone, without piercings or tattoos, without inclinations to violence and without anarchic rejection of convention and order.
If it is true that there are differences between the various religions, with their distinctive rites and supernatural beliefs, it is also true that "human beings have a natural inclination toward justice and toward living within a religion" and that religion is part "of the law of nature".
In that sense, Zucker is no more lacking in distinctive ideas than his predecessors at CNN, a deep bench of middle-aged establishment men without meaningful opinions, nor the slightest inclination to deviate from the conventional wisdom, and certainly not the faintest tingle of subversiveness.
Sheer inclination also matters.
"My inclination is positive.
