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Leslie McCall, a professor of sociology at Rutgers and a 30-something habitual acquirer of jackets who shops at the mall, said the change in the city's atmosphere was palpable.
While many people may not make daily trips to buy clothes (okay, some do) or other products, there is something more habitual about food.
People who successfully change their habits achieve something called "habitual automaticity" -- performing the new habit without having to think about it.
At first, I think I only wanted to talk with them, just I was doing with others then, to reëstablish something safe and habitual with a trustworthy presence who didn't understand the horrific event any better than I did, or perhaps, in a different way, simply to fill up the ugly days with talk, as we were all doing.
I once lived cheek by jowl with the stadium of Real Madrid, the leading Spanish club, and it was directly responsible for my addiction to the game, but I soon learned that once the clubs have to weld their outstanding players into a national combination, something of the habitual weekly brilliance of individual players sputters out, and the whole proves less than the sum of its parts.
Fitness has the advantage of being something that becomes habitual: if exercise is a big portion of your life, you'll keep using that smart band with some regularity.
In particular, it is interesting to analyse how an individual is acquiring skills related with a task that he/she is not familiar before (i.e. before something is becoming a habitual task) and how awareness contributes in such a situation [2].
To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
Talk to them about something other than the habitual advice seeking dialogue you might be used to in your parent/offspring history.
It sets a thing apart as something regarded with a modest, habitual affection.
He said the jury's decision would trigger a hunt for evidence to corroborate the Grillos' claims that Lawson was a habitual drug user, something she completely denies.
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