Sentence examples for growing predilection from inspiring English sources

Over dinner we sit with Erica McAlister, the museum's resident entomologist who explains Britons' growing predilection for making out in museums.

He is admirably receptive to a broad range of wine styles; ignoring his own counsel, he admits to a growing predilection for red Burgundies (actually the mark of a true connoisseur — I said it, he didn't), but he is not above uncorking a Martinelli Zinfandel — a beast of a wine, the complete antithesis of a red Burgundy — to celebrate his birthday.

In the New England area of the United States, mycologist Howard Bigelow has noted it to grow on road shoulders in grass near oaks; it also has a predilection for growing on sloping creek banks.

Histologically, these tumors featured anaplastic astrocytoma with predilection for growing into the ventricles.

A generational conflict is brewing, pitting the interests and predilections of well-heeled boomers against a growing, predominately Latino working class.

One imagines that, given Walken's predilection to dwell on his own self-destruction, growing older may not have been easy.

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Perhaps it's my advancing age, my predilection for playing the sourpuss or merely my growing disinterest in ceremony of any sort, but I'd rather eat in the shit end of a shopping centre than get gussied up for a night on the town in the kind of genericly chic hotspots that now litter America's cities.

Like the bored child he says he was when growing up, Sedaris tweaks tales incorrigibly, such as when detailing his father's predilection for hoarding food until it's rotten, or when, with preening self-parody, he mocks an earlier incarnation as a performance artist.

This relationship also explains the predilection of this tumor to involve the metaphyses of the most rapidly growing bones during this period: the distal femur, proximal tibia and proximal humerus.

This particular period in Tintoretto's career marked by greater vivacity of colour, by a predilection for a variegated perspective, and by a highly decorative quality coincided with his growing admiration for the art of Paolo Veronese, who had been working in the Doges' Palace.