Attired as such, and complete with the later familiar jerky gait and propensity for sudden collapses, he played a volunteer who came out of the audience to help – and, of course, reduce to a shambles – Nixon's magic act.
Sydneysiders, Cosgrove observed, have a propensity to label their architecture with the names of familiar domestic objects.
However, studies with propensity indexes may be confusing, and intensivists are not familiar with this methodology and may not fully understand the importance of this technique.
The novel object recognition test measures the natural propensity of a rat to explore a novel versus familiar object.
The natural propensity of animals to explore novel objects more relative to familiar ones is used as an index of stimulus recognition.
Anyone familiar with research in behavioral genetics will be unsurprised to learn that the propensity for violent crime is partly heritable.
It's a cognitive sleight-of-hand, capitalizing on the human body's propensity to calibrate new, unusual sensations to the memory of more familiar ones; with no other stimuli to go on, our brains interpret physical stimulus in ways we can recognize.
Also, we have a propensity to repeat the patterns of our childhood; we recreate situations that are somehow familiar to us, and I loved the idea of Grace growing up in a difficult, volatile household, and how this would explain why she would remain married to a man like Ted.
The Fed chief didn't specify China, but it wasn't long before Mr Zhou was explaining why exchange-rate adjustment was inappropriate given the structural fundamentals generating surpluses, such as the ultra-high propensity to save of Chinese households who lack the safety net of a public welfare system.So much, so familiar.
My propensity to unhappiness.
