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A predilection for expensive cars. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Personally, my predilection is toward the no-tilt side. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference
Of course, my predilection is for reporting, and any pundity I do I like to keep subordinate to the reportage. From Wordnik.com. [Back to basics ...] Reference
This American predilection, which is neither good nor bad, has resulted in movies that are grand social documents Schindler's. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
He built an hospital for the sick of all kinds, but the objects of his predilection were the lepers, and those hopelessly afflicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
GANZ: One other predilection got him into trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Ryan Adams, Musically and Verbally Prolific] Reference
Italy had shown her predilection for extra dances. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
That predilection got run over by a steam locomotive. From Wordnik.com. [Events And Arguments] Reference
She has a predilection for analyzing the construction of food. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
This predilection is fodder for an entire, separate irate column. From Wordnik.com. [If You Must Tackle the Taconic...] Reference
Zilah thought that, as the Baroness had a particular predilection for. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Tsongas also continued his predilection for remaining tight with the boys. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Uncandidate': How Pure Is Paul?] Reference
The monkey house came next, where I grew a tail and predilection for Paul Frank designs. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Dailing: Should liberals be allowed to teach in our schools? A response to a Daily Caller article about the Medill School of Journalism] Reference
With Henry: a late stage admission, twelve months in, about his predilection for cross-dressing. From Wordnik.com. [Things I Should Have Done - #4] Reference
A man's outlook is more or less apt to be bounded by the limits of the science of his predilection. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
She might be displeased, as well as surprised, over Mary's strange predilection for the French girl. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Beyond that, any one having a predilection for politics could find in the State Colleges and National. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
This fable probably arose from Endymion's love of astronomy, a predilection common in ancient pastors. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
He also had a predilection for young sopranos and particularly for young sopranos if they sang Rachmaninov. From Wordnik.com. [Ginny Dougary: Even Lloyd Webber isn't sure why Phantom of the Opera is his biggest hit] Reference
If you had to trace their predilection for flouting taboos to a point of origin, you might pick Lenny Bruce. From Wordnik.com. [A Bloody Good Show] Reference
Now he's bagged his biggest prize yet: Ross Perot, a man with a predilection for conspiracy theories himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Tales of Mr. Barnes] Reference
Which fudge factors astronomers throw into their equations reflects art and personal predilection as much as science. From Wordnik.com. [That Genesis Moment] Reference
"And yet it was a handsome cavalcade," continued the proprietor, his predilection for pomp overcoming his churlishness. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Byron's predilection for the unbounded could not have been nearly so dangerous with more humble birth and smaller means. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
French, who was a man of independent fortune, and whose connection with the university was a matter of predilection only. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
This predilection for failure is becoming a Mets trademark, as the team has struggled for three seasons to unpack its bags. From Wordnik.com. [Mets Are Dismal With Three Ducks on the Pond] Reference
But what there is has not demonstrated any ethnic, social, cultural, economic, genetic, or professional predilection to NPD. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Old Balducci grumbles in the first scene at the Pope's predilection for Cellini, declaring that such an excellent sculptor as. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Spaniard's predilection for the fascinating tinkle of his national instrument, we could hardly credit the accuracy of the figures. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
This is true of individuals inside and outside of work as well as companies that pursue an organizational predilection toward Flow. From Wordnik.com. [Chip Conley: Living Downwind from the Flower Shop] Reference
Her name was peculiar; the circumstances under which she came forward were unusual; and her predilection for Strachan was tantalising. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Many admired her, but that many were not included in the general public, that has no pronounced predilection for club men or club women. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
We must notice that the favorite instrument of the Swiss, the Alp-horn, has caused a predilection for a certain progression of intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
McCarthy's predilection for opaque philosophizing periodically stops the narrative cold, and his ear for dialogue, fine as it is, is not flawless. From Wordnik.com. [Brightening Western Star] Reference
And the evangelist's own transparent nature and predilection for truth telling make a portraitist's job both too easy and too hard: he is exactly what he seems to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Pastor to the Presidents] Reference
Perhaps there is a predilection in some people toward the tiny genetic errors in eggs and sperm that give rise to ASDs and that would tend to affect all their offspring. From Wordnik.com. [Unlocking The Genetic Secrets Of Autism] Reference
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