Sentence examples for prone to flight from inspiring English sources

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Despite the report's flaws, Gauna points out that even hints of trouble are enough to stoke fear in a market prone to flight over fight.

They are as prone to flight as shore-birds.

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Natasha Khan, as is probably evident, is prone to flights of fancy.

The jailhouse informer turned out to be mentally unstable, prone to flights of fantasy, but sane enough to have recanted his testimony in April.

Certainly Brontë scholars have been prone to flights of fancy down the years, and Lucasta Miller, in her book The Brontë Myth, has fun with their wilder ruminations.

The Passenger is a sullen, swaggering teen in a leather jacket, all devil-may-care where danger is concerned and prone to flights of pretentious fancy.

While prone to flights of hyperbole – at one point he compares himself to Da Vinci and Picasso, and he occasionally refers to himself in the third person – he always manages to laugh at his own preposterousness.

It was, he says, a "harsh" process, but the resulting sound could only ever be Roots Manuva – dank and claustrophobic in places, prone to flights of fancy, worldly yet distinctly British.

Alas, most people think there is such a thing as society, and even though sociology is as prone to flights of pretension and absurdity as any academic discipline, it can also shine precious light on the nature of reality.

I think it's pretty symbolic of our relationship because we were both prone to flights of fancy.

And whether they're well grounded or prone to flights of fancy, I think they know they'll always have a soft place to land.

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