Sentences with phrase «human proclivity»

You can see the results of this human proclivity in Kesten Green's analysis of Big Scares that Never Showed Up.

«This candidate for intelligence is based on the human proclivity to ponder the most fundamental questions of existence.

This book explores how sugar became so prominently featured in our diet and how the human proclivity for sweetness has brought richness to our language, our art, and our gastronomy.

his analysis of sundry maxims and «verbal museums» like Bartlett's supports the claim that quoting is a quintessentially human proclivity: «Can one even think without the words of others?»

Although identifying these attributes with generations or cultures helps in understanding them, Larry's experience suggests the larger human proclivity for becoming what we do.

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The very human personal characteristics of even the greatest scholars — including their religious or anti-religious proclivities — are often not irrelevant to the kind of scholarship they produce.

Schleiermacher extols childhood as a «pure revelation of the divine from which no conversion is necessary,» but he realized that «nature had also implanted the inclinations and proclivities that could lead to human destruction» and, therefore, never failed to emphasize the duty of adults to nurture children.

More to the point, for educators in these troubled times, is David Griffin's trenchant observation that those who seek to improve the human condition dare not ignore the transcultural proclivity to evil deep within the human heart and the strong element of competition in finite existence.

This notion of the demonic, especially when it is developed to explain the widespread proclivity of human beings to evil (through being born into cultures more or less dominated by demonic habits, symbols, beliefs, and attitudes), provides a further basis for reconciling God's goodness with the world's evil.

From its cannibalistic proclivities, the world can see why the APC and its insensitive Federal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial officers.

But now we need to know the proclivity of a virus or other pathogen to get into the human population.

Rabbit corneas were assayed due to their greater proclivity toward endothelial cell division than human cells [14].

I said in the introduction that cancer is a disease in which cells lose their «humanness» — their proclivity to collaborate with other human cells to create a human organism.

(via Linton Robinson) Total world peace is probably an impossibility in 2016 given the human race's proclivities toward tribalism, religious sectarianism, greed, blood lust and struggles over limited resources.

Your dog isn't homosexual; that's an all - too - human designation for a universal proclivity.

we float above to spit and sing vacillates between a proclivity for fetishizing and an object - oriented shadow world freed from human associations.

What they found was an especial proclivity for venomous and endangered species, as well as those with higher body mass or posing a threat to humans — big, rare, and scary for the win!

Churches, legal structures, and bureaucracies are all there to temper the so - called innate proclivities of human beings.

In his words: «Many of the ancient, evolutionary derived brain systems all mammals share still serve as the foundations for the deeply experienced affective proclivities of the human mind.»