Sentence examples for the habit itself from inspiring English sources

But maybe it wasn't so much the habit itself as it was its effectiveness that I kept returning to — how I could reliably get all sorts of people to move it or jump or shut the hell up.

For instance, because you are stressed (the cue), you eat a pint of ice cream (the routine, the habit itself).

Other times the point of a game isn't the habit itself, but the world it grants entrance to.

Substantial social and economic disruption followed in China, not only from the effects of the opium habit itself as it spread among the populace but from the corruption it engendered among petty officials and from a fall in the value of copper in China's bimetallic monetary system as silver was drained from the economy.

However, it is still not clear whether smoking is related to each component of LFTs and whether the effects are independent of alcohol drinking, since the smoking habit itself is closely related to the alcohol drinking habit [ 12].

The monkish habit itself is fraught with potential fear – it's unsurprising that so many ghost stories feature an unquiet brother, hooded and menacing.

Yet in some species, generation after generation, animals still seem to copy each other's behaviors, leaving scientists to wonder if the copying habit itself can be inherited.

Somewhat speculatively, it is possible that the higher levels of OBP relative to SMOBP in smokers could be a specific white-coat effect that is linked to the smoking habit itself, inducing an uncomfortable sense of being in an environment in which antismoking advices are common.

While comical guests had been interviewed on its news programs, NPR was not in the habit of producing comedy itself.

In its rotunda, the noise of mundane transactions is amplified into a noble, ambient echo that seems to gather all the hushed voices of customers who have passed through since 1924, a few of whom may even have paused to read the inscription that rings the elliptical chamber: "The habit of saving is itself an education.

It's the habit of privilege to indulge itself, and the University of Sydney's colleges are a comprehensive example.