Sentence examples for odd tendency from inspiring English sources

Forget our odd tendency to keep big dogs in small apartments.

Wars have an odd tendency to break out in August, whether by accident (the first world war in 1914) or by design (Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990).

He was a superb draftsman in the tradition of Degas or Manet, but with an odd tendency toward bravado and self-parody.

All McEwan's literary friends praise his talent — Craig Raine calls him "the most complete of the novelists that I know" — but they have an odd tendency to dismember his books.

All McEwan's literary friends praise his talent Craig Raine calls him "the most complete of the novelists that I know"—but they have an odd tendency to dismember his books.

In the third movement of Jerome Robbins's "Glass Pieces," the ensemble looked ragged, and in both the Forsythe and the Robbins there was an odd tendency, odder among the men, for the dancers to pick their way prettily through the steps rather than dancing flat out.

It was fun - don't get me wrong - but I learned more about the odd tendencies of certain personalities than I cared for.

Starck himself seems like a bit of a pain in the rear, or maybe he simply suffers from that odd French tendency to mistake clowning for wit.

What occasionally strikes me as odd is the tendency for criticisms of the book to reach inexorably for the conclusion that "Piketty is wrong", whether or not that is the most obvious upshot of the particular critique.

Literature has described features including social interaction deficits, solitary tendencies, odd speech and ideation, formal thought disorder, unusual perceptions, magical thinking, and preoccupations with bizarre fantasies and interests [ 8, 14, 15, 19– 22].

Also he had these rather odd nationalist or fascist tendencies.