Sentence examples for tendency to find from inspiring English sources

He doesn't like the current tendency to find some other name for creme vichyssoise.

I think he has a tendency to find excuses; he can be rather gauche, the one liable to make the inappropriate and irritating remark.

"Conspiracy theories emerge at this place where our natural tendency to find patterns and tell stories meets our natural tendency to have suspicions and fears," he said.

Yet overconfidence also develops as a result of the brain's natural tendency to find shortcuts — and to quickly forget that it used them.

Speaking of illusions, the tendency to find themes in film festivals probably belongs in that category, along with the notion of Mr. Clooney as a schlub.

Stollman introduces a provocative tension between the human tendency to find patterns in our experience -- an impulse common to writers and scientists -- and the limits to what we can know about ourselves.

In addition to the Vermögenspsychologie, Herbart also criticizes the Idealist tendency to "found a doctrine of nature upon inner, intellectual intuitions", on the one hand, and, on the other, the view that most psychological facts elude lawfulness because of the transcendental freedom of the will (PsW: 10 11; cf. SW VI: 57; 117 8).

For decades, attempts to undermine feminism, socialism and anti-racism have focused on our tendencies to find fault among ourselves.

And as has been discussed before, people have worrying tendencies to find reasons to blame victims for their own suffering.

The most provocative works in this exhibition invite us to wonder whether we have really outgrown ancient tendencies to find not only entertainment, but also transcendental meaning, in officially sanctioned killing.

The tendencies to find room for motive and character in the area of imperfect duty, and to assimilate virtue with continence, resurface in the writings of several moral philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries.