The word "predilections" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a natural preference or inclination, especially one that is strong or habitual. Example sentence: His predilections led him to a successful career in computer engineering.
There's no reason for you to discount your bisexuality if you choose a partner who's equally fluid about their sexual predilections or comfortable with yours.
Though she never apologised for her dangerous predilections, her life became increasingly harrowing, with a spell in prison, the constant threat of arrest, and declining vocal powers, attended by a sequence of sleazy, violent partners.Her friends struggled to make sense of this debacle, suggesting a masochism in Lady Day's nature at war with her fundamental pride and decency.
He displays too many of the traditional French predilections: a belief in a big role for the state, a partiality for (often state-owned) national champions, a mistrust of the benefits of unfettered competition.Above all, Mr Sarkozy is by nature a deal-maker, a man disposed always to look for compromise.
Paleos versus posers Hoopla Cleaning up the city The wages of sin Costly carousel Reprints Related items English football: Between gamesJun 1st 2006Other politicians have been more careful than Mr Prescott about revealing their sporting predilections.
But the aesthetic predilections of Republican audiences require that his response sound tough and forceful, and he needs above all to somehow distinguish himself from Mr Obama.
But then Captain Kirk kicks in and they interpret these through a prism of personal experience, with its predilections, prejudices, doubts, and fears.That is equally true of politics and public opinion.
But on the finer points of climate-change policy, the candidates reflect the predilections of their parties.
Meanwhile, some schoolgirls also indulge openly in their own brands of manga, depicting graphic if less violent sexual fantasy.The only thing that can be said with confidence is that Japan has found original ways to make money out of people's sexual predilections.
Rather, they are manifestations of personal predilections and biases.Mr Frank's observation seems to apply all too well to today's Supreme Court.
It is a wonderfully flexible system, but without a consistent rule of law, companies are prey to the predilections of bureaucrats.
DO LISTS of bestselling novels have anything to say about the literary predilections of such geographically and culturally remote nations as America, Britain, Germany and Italy?
