Sentence examples for historical predilection from inspiring English sources
Last year, I went to Corsica to explore the island's historical predilection for violence.
There is usually some dramatic incident taking place in the centre, such as a lion attacking its prey, which is in keeping with Rousseau's continued predilection toward the grandiose, historical, dramatic narratives of traditional academic painting.
Perhaps that is the new interpretation for the 21st century, I speculated: it might be hard on Trotsky, given his frequently expressed dislike of being pigeonholed as a Jew, but it would certainly be in line with this century's predilection for applying a Jewish prism to history and historical personages.
So does his pose of radical conservatism; his attention-grabbing device of gleaning material from pornography; his self-admitted careerism; his style-shifting strategies and embrace of bad painting, not to mention his predilection for second-hand images culled from photographs mixed up with art historical quotations.
The Spanish have a predilection for books about books, and have experienced "a remarkable explosion of popular historical fiction".
Wilentz acknowledges that academic historians "do tend, as a group, to be far more liberal than the citizenry as a whole," but he denies that his own liberal predilections, or the liberal biases of the academy, are the source of his historical judgments.
His predilection for history arose from his studies of the ancient writers, his indifference to the rationalistic theology still in vogue in Leipzig, and his intense interest in Luther as a historical character.
