Sentence examples for fixed habits of from inspiring English sources

The People's Liberation Army Daily, a military newspaper, said Sunday in a front-page article that a "long period without battle has encouraged the fixed habits of peace in some of the military so that their preparedness for battle is dulled".

First, thinking — the silent dialogue of me and myself — dissolves our fixed habits of thought and the accepted rules of conduct, and thus prepares the way for the activity of judging particulars without the aid of pre-established universals.

Whatever the magnificence and the difficulty of Merrill's achievement, Hammer views him as a sublime poet of the everyday, much like Wallace Stevens, another Connecticut man of fixed habits whose mélange of abstraction and gaudiness Merrill admired.

He is a genius, and a man of fixed habits".

Without regard to the question whether at the time he entered into such a relation it was a prohibited and punishable offense, or whether by reason of lapse of time since its commission a prosecution for it may not be barred, if he still maintains the relation he is a bigamist or polygamist, because that is the status which the fixed habit and practice of his living has established.

A characteristic feature of the TOL approach is that this displacement is allowed to vary for a fixed habit plane.

The end goal is not a fixed set of content knowledge, but a flexible series of habits of mind that can guide a child through life.

Few architects of popular culture have made the habits of heterosexual life seem sillier, and here the mere sight of Mr. Waters's fixed smirk reminds us that smug marrieds have no real claim to their smugness.

Five habits of successful physicians.

The sleep habits of famous writers.

The reproductive habits of trumpetfishes are unknown.