Sentence examples for habitual that from inspiring English sources

The basis for our study was the psychology of how people's behaviour becomes habitual – that is, automatic and unthinking – in some circumstances.

Those and other studies revealed that as much as 45percentt of what we do every day is habitual — that is, performed almost without thinking in the same location or at the same time each day, usually because of subtle cues.

Studies in humans and rodents have suggested that behavior can at times be "goal-directed"—that is, planned, and purposeful and at times "habitual"—that is, inflexible and automatically evoked by stimuli.

According to Elaine Sciolino, the American-born author of "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life," the intricately, often rigidly formalized pursuit of pleasure constitutes France's "unofficial ideology, a guiding principle codified in everyday assumptions and patterns of behavior so well established and habitual that they are automatic".

Formation is a continuous process of peer-to-peer coaching and acculturation designed to make the unnatural values of the monastic life so habitual that they become second nature.

Certain themes become so habitual that we don't consider them stories.

One goal of AT lessons is to create ease and freedom with movement, another that musicians overcome habitual postures that predispose them to injuries or decreased function [ 36].

She said that blaming social workers had become a habitual reaction that enabled politicians to simplistically deflect public anger and anxiety in the wake of often horrific, complex and unpredictable child protection tragedies involving different public agencies.

If monitoring shows that some groups within the population have habitual intakes that exceed the ULs, adaptations should be made.

Lately, though, Rodrigues has begun to sense a shift away from the habitual fatalism that has defined the Indian approach to public health.

"With a scowl and a frown / We'll keep our peckers down," Noël Coward wrote of the kind of habitual negativity that is Nanny's stock-in-trade.