Sentence examples for the proclivity from inspiring English sources

Foucault used the panopticon as a way to illustrate the proclivity of disciplinary societies subjugate its citizens.

This is, once again, the proclivity of a profession that has long left the real world for mathematical niceties in ever more intricate models.

The spies are hobbled by a culture of timidity and by the proclivity of any ponderous bureaucracy to eschew risk and waddle behind the curve.

Koestenbaum also relates the proclivity for "multiplication and archiving" to gay taste in New York, which in "the bleak McCarthy era paradoxically flourished in the home".

The proclivity of C.E.O.'s for misleading and falsely reassuring shareholders is also vividly recalled, in a book that works hard to combine insight with color.

Though later on he softened the proclivity, he never quite lost his readiness to blame the mobile vulgus for multiplying at an indecent rate.

Two other features of California — its border with Mexico and the proclivity of its residents to live along remote canyons and hilltops — contribute to the excessive fire danger.

He is right to deplore the proclivity of No 10 and departmental press offices for "trailing - a polite word for leaking".

Nor was the crisis the result of the American and European love affair with housing, or the proclivity of English-speaking consumers for excess credit.

The proclivity to make dramatic national and international decisions based on invented evidence indicates that our government is not being managed by trustworthy professionals.

As a devotee of cultivated bliss, how do you explain the proclivity for twisted eroticism and dismembered body parts in your films?