Sentence examples for our inclinations from inspiring English sources

Grace has the power to alter our emotional feelings, our tendencies, our inclinations and our emotions.

BARASH: The overt biologizing of our inclinations can be very clinical and, in that sense, rather helpful.

This is not to say that any of us was obdurate or inflexible about our inclinations, but rather that it was good for all three of us to know what our inclinations were, so as to allow for them, in ourselves and one another, as we continued to talk and talk and talk about the books.

But as Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo argue in their essay, our capacity for heroism is as natural to us as our inclinations toward apathy; nurturing heroism requires education, inspiration, and opportunities for reflection.

Pinker raises the possibility that recent biological evolution may have checked our inclinations towards violence, that somehow all our more angelic habits – delaying gratification, self-control, empathy, increased use of reason, movement away from superstition – may have had some biological effect on the hard-wiring of our brains.

In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.

Our inclination as parents had been to intervene to protect our children.

And public officials should try to nurture our inclination to do the right thing.

Perhaps the Internet has revealed only our inclination to preach it.

Paradoxically, our inclination to push away uncomfortable feelings gives them more power over us.

Our inclination to rationalize low acts by high-status people has deep psychological roots.