Throughout the episode, Jerry is consumed by anxiety surrounding his "un-manly" proclivities; at the lunch, he informs his date that he's "not really much of a meat eater," and she reacts with horror: "Are you one of those—" she begins to ask him, not daring to utter the v-word, and he responds wincingly, "Well, no, I'm not one of those".
If you can get at the core of that -- our proclivity to profit at the expense of people and planet - then you've got a teachable moment.
Underlings recall his proclivity for cursing at unprepared executives and, before surgery repaired his ears damaged by childhood scarlet fever, rapping his bulky hearing aid on conference tables to shush long-winded presenters.
While it may seem more apt to vend pregnancy tests in Vegas than Mankato, a college town in southern Minnesota, Mr. Crowe says the classy pub is a fitting location because the women at highest risk of drinking during pregnancy are professionals with disposable incomes and a proclivity for wine at dinner.
Russia – a population of about 150 million people at time of the fall of the Soviet Union – was losing people at a rate of almost a million a year, a combination of a reluctance to procreate and a proclivity, from men at least, to die young.
I make all sorts of pathetic excuses for my proclivity for shopping at Big Lots.
In this capacity, Shawky conveys more dramatically than any history book that the common denominator to all conflicts is the human proclivity to be at variance with the very ideals we purportedly champion and defend as the central guiding principles of our lives.
Millennials need shrewdly designed spaces that offer the kind of 24/7 flexibility that matches their lifestyles; fosters their proclivities to work-at-home, gather and multi-task; and accommodates their need for comfort, large-scale technology and high-style décor.
Instead, the man accused of being the main culprit, former School Superintendent Frank A. Tassone, was a folk hero for the district's success at getting students into A-list colleges and for his proclivity for popping up at local book clubs to offer his literary insights.
