By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. From LearnThat.org. [Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857)]
He has a proclivity for exaggeration. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Posturing seems to be the main proclivity of our right wing today. From Wordnik.com. [Standing Pat] Reference
Or perhaps the two of them share a certain proclivity for denial in the face of evidence and facts. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's nominee for Office of Legal Counsel: pregnancy is slavery] Reference
They failed to tell us of his proclivity with young boys. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 28, 2003] Reference
The proclivity of the natural man is to domineer or to be subservient. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
We've known for a long time John F. Kennedy had a proclivity for women. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2003] Reference
This administration has a real proclivity to hold information tight to the vest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2002] Reference
Scottish proclivity for a drop o 'whisky, they accepted me as a half Scotchman. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Mr. MAAZEL: Well, every musician must show his talent and proclivity at an early age. From Wordnik.com. [Maestro Maazel On Life After N.Y. Philharmonic] Reference
Is it something that's kind of come with your job, or you had this proclivity before?. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys Of Reading Many Books At Once] Reference
Most of the magazines had little or no political proclivity, but were chiefly literary. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
If you get physical with him, his proclivity for whining is as present as his razor wit. From Wordnik.com. [NEWSMAKERS] Reference
Yet before he took this step he was accused of a proclivity toward extraordinary things. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
It exists in every human being that comes into the world as a bias or proclivity to evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Holiness] Reference
A resolution in the matter of -- of a certain penguins proclivity there at the Bremen Zoo. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2005] Reference
The human being is born with no innate proclivity to crime or special kind of unpatriotism. From Wordnik.com. [An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker] Reference
But I don't see any proclivity to try to brush this under the carpet in enforcement agencies. From Wordnik.com. [An ‘Underpoliced’ Society] Reference
Thankfully, the younger Rose shares none of Swift's proclivity for the corny and the lachrymose. From Wordnik.com. [Caitlin Rose] Reference
So, how does the Torch hold up and does it reduce my proclivity to call Blackberry a potential short?. From Wordnik.com. [Reggie Middleton: RIM.... Hmmm... Maybe RIP: Crackberries in the Smart Phone Wars...] Reference
We think that they would have our example, were it not for the fatal proclivity of solitary gymnastics to dulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
And though they're mostly Democratic, Latinos have demonstrated a proclivity to swing from one election to the next. From Wordnik.com. [THE SWING VOTE: COMING OF AGE] Reference
A child who learns early to fear the world is apt to lose his or her natural proclivity for exploration of the world. From Wordnik.com. ['Medicine' For '724 Children'] Reference
This, and not natural proclivity, is the reason why genius so often shows a tendency to eccentric and abnormal conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
The threshold is high; some perceived proclivity against a large group-say, women or a liberal organization-isn't enough. From Wordnik.com. [An Uncomfortable Seat] Reference
He emphatically emphasized (again knowing my proclivity to worrying) that bringing down DNS servers was really really hard. From Wordnik.com. [Judy Shapiro: Judy Consumer Worries About Those Seven Keys Needed to Restart the Internet.] Reference
To the scientific eye, your capacious digestive apparatus is a psycho-physical exhibit of the racial proclivity to overeat. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The exact form of the disturbance of health depends much upon the hereditary proclivity and physical make-up of the individual. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
So although drug use does produce cellular changes in the brain, beware of the modern proclivity for medicalizing moral failings. From Wordnik.com. [About Cocaine And Bananas] Reference
Her proclivity to her true sphere destroys all the natural influence which this orb would otherwise possess over her corporeal frame. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
With a decided propensity for fun and mischief, there was also in his disposition as evident a proclivity to seriousness and earnestness. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
This ancestral origin will also account for the otherwise unaccountable proclivity of all human juveniles to play at the game of leap-frog!. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
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