Sentences with word «predilections»

Beyond that, as Cadillac strives to re-invent itself again and compete in rarified space owned by factory tuners from its European competitors, there's this: The Cadillac ATS - V may be a better track car than any of them, but there's no guarantee it can overcome the Euro - centric predilections of luxury - performance buyers.

As is so often the case, it comes down to tastes and predilections.

That means cost - effectiveness, ample models from which to choose, and plenty of appeal to diverse drive - time predilections.

The open - minded person is willing to defer to impartial investigations rather than to his own predilections... Scientific method is attunement to the world, not to ourselves

This is very much in line with current trends to combine different tests to measure value - added given statisticians and (particularly in the universe of VAMs) econometricians» «natural predilections» to find (and force) solutions to what they see as very rational and practical problems.

The teachers» value - added from prior years, in which they had been assigned students based on the principals» predilections, provided unbiased forecasts of student achievement during the randomized year.

Their form is a matter of prevailing local technology, and they are being usurped in terms of our cultural predilections.

Davis Guggenheim can not curb his Gore - o - phile predilections when selecting unflattering film clips of GOP presidents.

Whitehurst's strong academic credentials broadcast his methodological predilections.

Given my predilections, I have high hopes for Nicolette Krebitz's Wild — about a young woman who leaves civilization to live with a wolf.

That film was the perfect example of the pitfalls of the genre (made barely palpable by masterful performances from its two now Academy Award winning male stars), serving to reinforce my own predilections (prejudices) regarding films about real life individuals.

Jason from MNPP here with this week's «Beauty vs Beast» contest - we've been more or less working our way through the year's big awards contenders over the past few weeks, with a Three Billboards here and a Phantom Thread there, and knowing what you know about my oft - expressed personal... predilections... you'd be forgiven for expecting a proper Call Me By Your Name showdown at some point.

2004 brought Starsky and Hutch, which also featured a memorably weird Ferrell performance as a prisoner with creepy sexual predilections.

«Gone Girl» made the rounds on the book circuit this year and given Fincher's predilections toward lurid material it's no surprise that he snapped up the opportunity to direct the picture.

Once the disrupter, Weinstein now appears to be another in a long line of domineering but weakened tycoons with monstrous predilections forever cast in a shadow of his own monstrosity.

The foibles, kinks and predilections of the adaptor visit themselves upon the foibles, kinks and predilections of the original author, just like the way actors bring themselves into a role written by another.

When circumstances allow psychopathic predilections to flourish, watch out.

as his social - realist picture, but those early scenes alone indicate a greater interest in the way representations of reality can facilitate his genre - bending predilections.

He feels like the sort of director who makes films for himself, and if you're the sort to have that intersect with your predilections, well, you get to be one of the lucky ones.

One might call the apparent obsession Freudian, but such a common label seems dumbly reductive for a man of von Trier's oft - immeasurable thematic predilections.

The multiple perspectives offered on the characters and events by the correspondents guarantee that a sense of the truth has to be gleaned from a critical reading that synthesizes their interpretations according to the predilections of the reader; no fully authoritative observer or participant ever steps in to settle the issues once and for all.

Rather, he's just as much a victim of his own boorish predilections as are his victims.

Here it is a cop played by James McAvoy who is in therapy for his less - than - acceptable predilections while on or of duty.

Director Pawel Pawlikowski, is known to cineastes largely for his passionate «My Summer of Love,» which charts a meeting between women with opposite predilections; one a tomboy looking for an alternative to the emptiness of life, the other cynical, spoiled and well - educated.

A lot of the humor intentionally reflects the temperament and predilections of boys around the age of nine or ten, and the movie dishes it out with a fair amount of verve and no trace of pretension; all it wants to do is amuse us, and fairly often it succeeds.

Yet he finds himself thrust into the underbelly of white crime when a strange assignment falls into his lap: find Daphne Monet, a missing white woman with black «predilections» and suspicious ties to a prominent politician.

Mostly, though, Morrisette succumbs to her dual predilections for quasi-spirituality and stultifying sappiness.

The first one is typing your called for site predilections in one of the search engines wish Google or Yahoo.

You will have to put a lot of your physical details on the site along with a list of your avocations and likes and maybe dislikes, so that others with like predilections dismissed touch you and vice versa.

It is important that in creating the best online personals, impart comprehensibly your predilections.

But this was before I discovered Johnny's dark predilections.

It is important that in creating the best online personals, communicate undoubtedly your predilections.

When you become mindful of your own predilections for fetish play, you may be facing a lot of false assumptions.

But interacting with the sites doesn't have to be a matter of sitting alone at your computer (or staring into a phone) and attenuating your personal predilections as if they came entirely from within and existed independently of social relations.

Even the adult people whom he search easier, its predilections the online find adult sex dating partners websites therefore he want it more easily sexual like with this brand to find adult singles with that.

You can create a straightforward profile listing your name, age, and location and then start searching for someone who shares your predilections.

However, modern predilections are at odds with these rules.

As much as I have been working on classing up my sartorial predilections (fewer obnoxiously loud prints, for starters), colour is one thing I just can't quit.

A traditional latte is unsweetened — but we are not here to judge your predilections.

Add standard teenage predilections for excess and indulgence, and you've got a recipe for monthly sick days home from school.

These four genomes may help explain how the bacteria evolved to have predilections to infect certain hosts, and it appears that very few genes may make the difference.

The political predilections of Trump and his Cabinet augur continued improvement of scientific ties with Russia.

Although all humans share a «universal mode of operation,» says Freeman, even identical twins have divergent life histories and hence unique memories, perceptions, and predilections.

Rather, the slight asymmetries present at birth, shaped and molded by interests, predilections, and the cues of parents and teachers, grow into more significant gender gaps in adulthood.

Although all humans share a «universal mode of operation,» Freeman says, even identical twins have divergent life histories and hence unique memories, perceptions, and predilections.

When it is an area that I know a lot about, I don't usually care much about these sections because they often reflect the authors» theoretical predilections and one of many ways to think about the method and results.

I saw it as an amplifier — whatever weaknesses or predilections you have would just get stronger because there would be no mitigating factors.

I don't care about his personal life or predilections - that's between himself & his wife - and people shouldn't care either.

Despotism is staging a comeback, propped up by a — not the — Yoruba media, which objectifies its permutations and predilections through a virulent antipathy for Ndigbo.

That «allows for law enforcement, under the guise of protecting another's reputation, to pursue their personal predilections, regardless (of) whether the impersonated persons complained to law enforcement and regardless of the truth or falsity of the underlying speech,» according to Porter.