Sentence examples for predilection for this from inspiring English sources

Richard P Grant is an ex-lab rat with a predilection for this sort of thing.

Over time, those with a predilection for this kind of showboating athleticism have become circus performers, gymnasts and, with the advent of film, stunt people.

She has something of a predilection for this – tickling audiences with one hand while punching them in the guts with the other.

Given the Academy's predilection for this sort of grandstanding, it seems odd that he wasn't nominated for an Oscar in the same year that Ryan O'Neal, say, got the nod for Love Story; one can only conclude the film itself wasn't much liked.

Paramount had a predilection for this kind of discontinuous, gag-oriented comedy, perhaps because of the studio's association with the Marx Brothers (and "Duck Soup" would, in fact, draw on some of the political satire tucked into the screenplay credited to Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Henry Myers).

True, one reviewer counted 167 instances of the "F-word" – the dramatist's predilection for this profanity being now the stuff of legend – and of gags such as the one about the toff who, on his way into a theatre, sees a beggar and sniffily tells him: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be – William Shakespeare"; to which the bum replies: "Yeah.

There is history in this predilection for the abjectly abnormal: "The late '50s at Vogue, and presumably Bazaar, represented the madwoman's last hurrah," wrote Mary Cantwell in her memoirs, describing the fashion people who dominated the glossies.

This predilection for the "old" extended into all areas of domestic life: dried flowers were seen to have a more subtle charm than fresh, prints should be faded, rugs worn, wallpaper streaked by the sun.

It was actually the short ball from Anderson that got him in the first innings, but such is his predilection for the off-drive that this makes perfect sense.

Rich with club scenes and descriptions of offbeat forms of physical congress, this story of one man's moral and sexual flowering might best be described as an arrested bildungsroman with a predilection for the psycho-sexual; indeed, this is likely to be the only book written this year to contain the sentence: "He licked and he licked and he licked as he thought, This is where I belong".

This is arguably work-related, but given my predilection for the subject matter, it qualifies as a beach read.