Social science researchers have named this tendency "False Hope Syndrome": because we believe self-change is easy, we set high expectations that aren't realistic.
When the 19th-century sociologist William Graham Sumner later named this tendency "ethnocentrism," the term, and the allegation, became a mantra of 20th-century cultural anthropology.
For me, the most interesting aspect of Marinetti's writing is not so much the range of poems, paintings and performances it produced in his immediate cohorts, but rather the way it names a tendency that shaped the work of writers who would never have considered themselves "futurists".
"Obviously, just learning not only names, but tendency and personnel.
One name for this tendency is the religious, the realm where faith replaces reason.
He may not know their names or their tendencies, but he knows what he wants to do.
We were shooting something where two people creep up on me and say my name, and my tendency is to do a huge scare take, you know?
The concept's name perpetuates a tendency that began with the Mercedes-Benz CLS, billed as a four-door coupe when it arrived in 2004.
This last name illustrates a tendency, particularly in Ulster, whereby Mac names followed by an initial G are contracted; thus MacGuinness (also written MacGennis) becomes Magennis, MacGuire becomes Maguire, and MacGee, Magee.
There is no rational way to explain the amount of time that Gruden invests in each "Monday Night Football" broadcast: he spends days memorizing the names, numbers, and tendencies of all fifty-three players on both teams, even though little of this information makes it onto the broadcast.
