Sentence examples for proclivity toward from inspiring English sources

Shostakovich's "band" has an edge of nastiness and a proclivity toward hysteria.

I had always assumed that the Southerner's proclivity toward anything made with gelatin derived from the heat.

A customer-account processor's proclivity toward gossip and office politics might be directed more constructively toward team building.

Though accounts of what happened next vary widely, Kock's brief reign over the colony exhibited simultaneous signs of incompetence and a proclivity toward despotism.

Most of today's on-line customers exhibit a clear proclivity toward loyalty, and Web technologies, used correctly, reinforce that inherent loyalty.

We next analyzed these ratings and isolated a cluster of 13 highly correlated behaviors that best represent employees' proclivity toward near-future voluntary turnover.

If so, he was a dedicated one, with a democratic streak and proclivities toward trompe l'oeil, simplified compositions and slightly naïve perspectival solutions.

Many of America's Asian trading partners worry about what they see as Democratic proclivities toward economic protectionism and stricter targets on greenhouse gas emissions.

Players on both sides curbed their regular-season proclivities toward stickwork and elbow work, not wanting to draw the penalty that could cost them a Stanley Cup.

In both those works, despite Davis's efforts to be evenhanded, he could not help but bring his natural proclivities toward the defense's side to bear; and in those books, that proclivity was entirely appropriate.

The financial pace setters of the world, if they overcome their traditional proclivities toward fun and froth, can re-establish the pragmatism of the 1940's that produced the great development programs of the postwar period and offered poor people in the newly emerging nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America a chance to achieve prosperity.