Sentence examples for habit itself from inspiring English sources

The monkish habit itself is fraught with potential fear – it's unsurprising that so many ghost stories feature an unquiet brother, hooded and menacing.

But maybe it wasn't so much the habit itself as it was its effectiveness that I kept returning to — how I could reliably get all sorts of people to move it or jump or shut the hell up.

Substantial social and economic disruption followed in China, not only from the effects of the opium habit itself as it spread among the populace but from the corruption it engendered among petty officials and from a fall in the value of copper in China's bimetallic monetary system as silver was drained from the economy.

Yet in some species, generation after generation, animals still seem to copy each other's behaviors, leaving scientists to wonder if the copying habit itself can be inherited.

For instance, because you are stressed (the cue), you eat a pint of ice cream (the routine, the habit itself).

Other times the point of a game isn't the habit itself, but the world it grants entrance to.

Annual or perennial habit may itself have a variable relationship to the generation time pertinent to substitution rates.

History has a habit of repeating itself.

Income, at Romney's level, has a habit of transforming itself into something else.

Hollywood has a strange habit of repeating itself, often within the span of a few months.

Climate change has a habit of interposing itself, though, whether you want to study it or not.