Sentence examples for something of a tendency from inspiring English sources

Whichever way you look at it, Madonna has something of a tendency to foul up every single film she ever goes near.

There is something of a tendency among conservatives when criticising state intervention to remember the pre-welfare state through rose-tinted glasses.

This plausibly owes something to a tendency to take up the perspective of the golden boys first and foremost.

If something is a tendency of our nature then we have to rely on it as a source of truth.

Italy has always been something of a gerontocracy, but this tendency has worsened considerable in recent times.

There's something of this tendency in the way he speaks as well, though Jackson says he wishes his answers could be a bit more compressed.

One can see something of this tendency of liberal ideals to go beyond themselves in the way in which equality of opportunity, on close inspection, slides into equality of outcome.

The family homesteaded near Palmdale when Wayne was 7, then a small, gangly youngster, who was a bit shy with his peers, and already developing a tendency toward becoming something of a loner — as well as the private conviction that "big boys don't cry".

When he wants something, Murdoch has a tendency to get it - but a News Corp takeover of Newsday would be a flagrant breach of America's cross-media ownership limits, even after a recent controversial loosening of the rules.

He was something of a grandstand player, because of his tendency to make one-handed catches and stops but he got there just the same and was a big favorite wherever he showed".

If your name is on something, there is a tendency for it to be remembered".