Despite his predilections, he liked the wines he liked not because they were made according to a certain philosophy, but because he thought the wines tasted better.
Of course, bipartisan gerrymandering has left most districts with a strong predilection to like one side or the other.
As our understanding of the human brain advances, our conception of its capacities becomes ever more complex, and the ability to complete a mathematical pattern or unscramble an anagram becomes less the measurement of an important ability and more a curious predilection, like a fascination with stamps or a passion for the oboe.
They play a different couple in each episode, all inevitably burdened with some dark backstory or bizarre predilection; like the swingers with a comatose sister for a lodger or the Scottish-dancing religious couple convinced their neighbour's garden has been influenced by Satan.
We decide what to do on the basis of our values, beliefs, temperament, conditioning, predilections and the like – which is to say that it is we who decide, not some blank space.
Moreover, they say they will happily customize BlueSpace to accommodate specific predilections -- like enabling a customer to disable the instant notification.
By airing the roots of his predilections, Gowdy, like so many post-Freudian authors before her, insists on a psychologically driven series of actions that are not always as subtle as they're meant to be to a readership thoroughly conversant with notions of youthful trauma and arrested development.
And while we are indeed responsible for the high quality of our slang and for an unfortunate predilection for using like as a form of punctuation, Americans, I am here to say, are not all bad for English.
Dinky had an early predilection for pets, liked to put clothes on them and would eventually have an Akita dog named Camilla Parker Bowles.
Hook Man's penchant for spooking smoochers begins to look less like the predilections of an otherworldly creature and more like an odd habit we might spot in someone we know or even in ourselves.
If so, there is reason to think that any major group of eukaryotic microbes is more prokaryotic-like in its sexual predilections than it is standardly meiotic.
