Sentence examples for propensity for writing from inspiring English sources

The servant girl Pamela's remarkable literary powers and her propensity for writing on all occasions were cruelly burlesqued in Henry Fielding's Shamela (1741), which pictures his heroine in bed scribbling, "I hear him coming in at the Door," as her seducer enters the room.

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"Mental gluttony, or overreading, is a dangerous propensity," Lewis Carroll writes.

"Our existence depends on this propensity," Dr. Wilson wrote.

"It bothered some that there was an unruly, tomboy quality to Colvin, including a propensity for curse words and immature outbursts," writes Douglas Brinkly, who recently completed a biography of Parks.

There seems to be a slightly higher propensity for self-consciously virtuous books to be written by people whose personalities have been paved over by their superegos.

In George Croly's Marston: Or, the Memoirs of a Statesman, serialised in the May 1844 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, we find it written: the "doctor still wrote verses, and still had a lurking propensity for climbing the slippery slope of poetic renown".

An article in Vanity Fair offered an armchair assessment of Mr. Bush's propensity for mispronunciations: Dyslexia, a condition associated with problems in deciphering the written word.