Or again, it may be that Hobbes's state of nature would be peaceful but for the presence of persons (just a few, or perhaps all, to some degree) whose passions overrule their calmer judgments; who are prideful, spiteful, partial, envious, jealous, and in other ways prone to behave in ways that lead to war.
"He was way more prone to proposing that disagreements be talked out.
Inspired by Autogenic Training, a method of facilitated relaxation by way of prone postures and repeated visualizations, Rist wanted viewers to leave the exhibition in a mental state where they would be "receptive to new ideas," according to the press release. .
In the eyes of many of his liberal supporters, Obama the President has proved way too prone to court the votes of conservative legislators at the cost of alienating liberal ones - way too willing to do deals to get something passed rather than to stand on principle and risk no deal at all.
By the way, going prone is not laying around for a minute.
And if you're that way, you're prone to focus sometimes on the negative.
Grim-faced staff made their way through the prone bodies of Oxford's youths, bundling their trash into plastic bags.
Her therapist taught her to write down these thoughts and then to identify her thinking errors – for instance, the way she is prone to catastrophise, always jumping in her mind straight to the worst possible scenario.
Cantankerous and complex in a convincing way, she is prone to pithy pronouncements: "We all know how people suffer over the unexpected violent death of a family member … It's vivisection … It's limb loss".
He was burning with feeling about the way America is prone to coop up wild animals; he had seen buffalo penned up in snail parks and even an eagle in a cage.
