The phrase "personal predilection" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to an individual's strong preference for something as a matter of personal taste. For example: "John's personal predilection for chocolate-covered strawberries was unmatched."
But is that personal predilection or prudishness?
There's already an irony in Sibelius's description of his apparently austere Sixth, given his personal predilection for alcohol.
"The major is only the beginning of a line of interests that will develop and deepen over the course of people's lives and will be dictated by circumstance, employment, personal predilection.
Though he made clear that his personal predilection was for tough justice, he strove to make the system reflect the thinking of a new, more collaborative generation of cadets who were less willing to inform on one another.
The question this sort of behavior raises — which I suppose is pretty much the same question that you always have when you start to closely examine some weird personal predilection that doesn't seem to plague the other people around you — is this: How do you know when you've gone too far?
You can't have my surname and not be grateful for the blunt, good words that come from Old English; but I confess a personal predilection for words of Latin origin, with the arch distance they offer from the realm of ordinary speech, and their secret etymological histories, which seem to me to bestow a peculiar romance upon the craft of writing.
Just as the North Korean authorities are preparing the groundwork for the new leader's personality cult, we unconsciously perform the rites of our own analytical personality cult by focusing on Kim Jong Un's personal predilections.
That path was a grandly contradictory zigzag through personal predilections and generational changes.
McPhee's choice of subjects is driven by certain personal predilections.
My concern was simply that the National, in so closely reflecting Nunn's personal predilections, was losing sight of its duty to offer a spectrum of world drama.
Rather, they are manifestations of personal predilections and biases.Mr Frank's observation seems to apply all too well to today's Supreme Court.
