Sentence examples for predilection was for from inspiring English sources

Bain, whose predilection was for boys aged seven or eight, was never brought to trial in Britain.

While his main predilection was for girls and young women, he sometimes ranged from five to 75-year-olds of both sexes and, it seems, may have engaged in necrophilia.

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.

Barnes's predilection was for Renoir's "late" period – those fleshy, soft-focus nudes which, to put it mildly, haven't aged well – and Phil Grabsky's film deserves points for tackling the issue head-on: distinguished art critics queue up to explain how "weird" and "strange" they find them.

Maybe I should confess that my own stodgy predilection is for early-morning Barcelona, particularly a stroll through the Boqueria, the old market on the Ramblas, to ogle some of the most beautiful fish in the world.

The main character of this self-proclaimed Rabelaisian romp, the Eric Gill-like figure of Sebastian Skeleton, aims to live by jokes alone; he reigns omnivorously over his family, his special predilection being for carnal intimacy with a barnyard resident by the name of Rebecca.

John Galliano The John Galliano predilection is for Victorian England, so Sherlock Holmes, the buttoned-up detective with an underbelly of opium addiction, was a perfect theme for the designer's fantasies: sweeping coats, but in techno fabrics; taut suits, ultimately revealing corseted underwear; and a descent into lacquered surfaces and Asian flower-embroidered robes for martial arts.

The presenters, like their fetishes, were an interesting mix, ranging from Viraj Puri of Gotham Greens, whose predilection is for lettuce (naked), to the extremely handsome Sean Dimin of Sea-2-Table.

As reported previously, no predilection was found for CC to occur on any side [ 14].

No sex predilection was found for the type of amyloid (Table  2).

An interesting predilection was observed for Aspergillus and Candida, to preferentially infect patients with Bronchogenic carcinoma and Tubercular sequelae respectively.