Sentence examples for sad tendency from inspiring English sources

Simulated art has a sad tendency to perform better commercially than the real thing, a fact that specialized film distributors have long been aware of.

Such, at least, was the custom; but the goblet was found to have a sad tendency to enlarge its dimensions, so that the Emperor began to perceive that he had every year a larger dose of water to drink, and a greater number of ducats to pay for it.

Mr. McCarthy's next battle is to find a distributor for a film that is nearly impossible to describe -- a quasi-documentary careful with its historical facts but purposefully nonliteral in its ways of depicting them, in part to make the auteur's auxiliary point about New York City's sad tendency to pave over its history.

Both fighters have looked alarmingly cool and in great shape, although Fury's clowning instincts – wrapped up in what he described to Donald McRae in 2011 as "commit-suicide-sad" tendencies – are not buried much deeper than those of Chisora, who has bitten an opponent and had to apologise for threatening to shoot David Haye.

Anyway, if there's anything pernicious about fantasy sports, it has more to do with the last decade's sad, spastic tendency towards commodifying everything.

People feeling the effects of SAD have a tendency to eat sugary and starchy foods; be aware of this craving and you will prevent the sugar highs and lows.

Thinking in lines of the network models and (biological) theories of motivational orientation (e.g. Strack and Deutsch 2004; Davidson 1992 , 1993, one could also argue that sad mood would facilitate avoidance tendency, while positive mood would be characterized by a general approach tendency, regardless of the valence of the reference object.

"They just tend to happen", he says of his tendency for penning sad songs.

I can't help but wonder: is the reason an innate human tendency to bury sad stories?

We discuss the tendency to feel sad or withdraw from usual social scenes and society at large.

13 14 15 16 17 Some researchers have commented on a sense of "sad resignation" 28 and a tendency for people with COPD to "marginalise" their condition as the result of "old age".