Sentence examples for terrible tendency from inspiring English sources

There's a terrible tendency to say different things to different audiences.

There was a terrible tendency for me to see the paintings darkening, becoming less accessible emotionally, more hard-edged.

"There is a terrible tendency to over-extrapolate trends," said Alan Brown, group chief investment officer for Schroder Investment Management.

To be honest, I never had that many dealings with groupies because of a terrible tendency to fall in love and end up in long, monogamous relationships.

The English have a terrible tendency to accentuate the penultimate when it is not in order, and that surfaced time and again during the recent riots.

At a recent event organised by the Policy Exchange think-tank, Mr Letwin said: "In a marriage you are committed, so some of the inhibitions are removed and there is a terrible tendency therefore for some frictions to exhibit themselves.

Buckingham adds that what makes all these polemics questionable is the one-dimensional analysis of the electronic media as causes of terrible tendencies among children.

We are into terrible authoritarian tendencies". Bernstein is hardly alone.

But he had a terrible temper, a tendency to escalate rather than to defuse confrontations, and, by the time he was released, just before turning eighteen, he had achieved only a ninth-grade education.

Her readers know that she is 5 feet tall, grew up in Connecticut, teaches yoga and once taught snowboarding; has a slow metabolism and terrible eyesight, a tendency to overspend on facials and shoes, and friends who are skinnier, taller and fitter than her.

I said, 'Boy, is this terrible!'" Gates has a tendency to talk about the horrors and injustices of the developing world just as he talks about the computer business: in blunt, jerky sentences, his nasal voice flat or leaping, his manner without much natural warmth or charm.