Sentence examples for predilection that from inspiring English sources

It's a predilection that results in many disappointments.

It's a predilection that still sees him undervalued.

"People have a built-in predilection that wishes for assistance and support.

Toward the novel's end, Shivanathan confesses to sharing Sam Obeysekere's fondness for detective fiction, a predilection that may have led them to misread the motives for Hamilton's murder.

I guess, like a hardcore porn habit, it's the sort of predilection that lends itself to the quick snapping shut of a laptop lid.

The English, he claims, love surface decoration and intricate patterns rather than profundity, a predilection that extends through the plastic arts to music and philosophy.

A person familiar with the councilman's culinary predilections that day said the receipt came from Bits Bites & Baguettes.

These predilections are presumably "learned" — "acquired" — but perhaps also imprinted in our genes, of biological necessity, neurophysiological fate, predilections that predate culture.

In the postwar years, people began to use bias less in reference to deliberate distortion than to unconscious predilections that could color perception.

This inevitably includes the deaths of parents and/or friends, sexual crises, small reliefs, and various repeating tics and predilections that will be present forever, regardless of how much people always hope to be able to reinvent themselves.

In Greene's view, this suggests that we bring to our moral judgments predilections that are hard-wired in our brains, and emotions might play a more significant role in our decision making than we realize, particularly in the case of everyday ethical dilemmas that affect us personally.