The writer's enjoyment of Saratoga's charm was not shared by a certain proportion of the crowd at the track - they were a joyless sporting crowd - the smalltime, habitual horse-players.
An habitual poker player, he was wonderful in the 2007 revival of Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice, playing a loveless solitary whose whole life was devoted to the card table.
The 20-year ascent of Mendes from Porto nightclub owner and friend of footballers to the beaming broker of the game's most lucrative transfers has tracked the sport's pay-TV-fuelled inflation itself, and Portugal's status as a habitual exporter of players.
In a population of Internet game players, habitual gaming at night was related to an increase in depression scores in adolescents (13 17 years) and emerging adults (18 22 years), though not in the group defined as young adults (23 30 years) [ 41].
There's nothing smart about "My mother is the former governor of Alaska" which is as weak as it is predictable and the writers should have taken some care not to deal a habitual victim-card player a full house.
26– 27 Bavelier and colleagues have found that habitual action video game players are better at suppressing distracting information and that the better the suppression, the faster the reaction time.
Additionally, the habitual drinking habits of rugby players were identified.
Lastly, naturalization refers to how well the game encourages players to develop habitual and spontaneous use of information derived within the game or activity.
Djokovic's on-court impersonations of other players, not least Nadal's habitual fiddling with the seat of his pants, have delighted fans of what is so often a po-faced game.
As a professional soccer player, I repeat techniques until they are habitual, spend time in the gym working on strength and balance to prevent injury, and condition my body to withstand 90-plus minutes of intense competition.
