Sentences with phrase «proclivities by»

Warburton's expressionlessly ironic delivery turns repetitious; the situations unfunny and even creepy (do daughters really announce their alternative sexual proclivities by making out with a girlfriend in front of dad?)

My feature on Hackett in the current issue of Fortune explores the CEO's proclivities by way of guessing what he might do with Ford.

A glass is a curious material in between liquid and solid states of matter, but eventually glass always yields to its solid proclivity by settling into the ordered patterns of a crystal.

Women may not define their sexual proclivity by their ability to achieve orgasm, but for some men, the ability to maintain stamina and also to give pleasure is vital to their self - worth.

Not exact matches

These actions can not be explained by mere sexual proclivities, or «boys being boys.»

The proclivity of the Jews for finance, trade, and exchange has been frequently noticed by Jewish writers and the concentration of Jews in the cities is a present as well as an historical fact.

Those who invest by the seat of their pants often project that same proclivity onto me and assume that I must be doing the same.

Bird's proclivity for, well, most everything serves him well once again, as each of his songs are punctuated by his piercing whistle (if you haven't heard it, you should stop reading andgo watch this), always spot - on guitar playing and classically trained violin plucking and bowing.

We are left to ponder whether, in a future case, Kennedy will be swayed more by his Equal Protection proclivities than his federalist convictions.

Schwartz and his colleagues developed a «maximization scale,» by means of which subjects rate their relative maximizer / satisficer proclivities.

They were likely killed by the good followers of God for not goose stepping to your particular proclivities, you inbred whelp.

The Trivialization of God: The Dangerous Illusion of a Manageable Deity By Donald W. McCullough NavPress, 172 pages, $ 16 The president of San Francisco Theological Seminary offers a sprightly and at times disturbing critique of the many ways in which we try to domesticate God» fitting Him into our emotions, concepts, or social» political proclivities.

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.

And last, the spiritual unity with Being which the mystic desires is for Schweitzer attained through giving expression to the natural proclivity within us of the will - to - relatedness, or love, and by becoming united in ethical concern with all forms of life in the world about us.

Given my proclivities — I consider Caesar salad the most wonderful dish ever created by mankind and I always make pizza from scratch — you couldn't have given me a better gift than this recipe.

Pretty sure by now, you know my proclivity towards breakfast, as evidenced by these recent posts.

Whilst such proclamations will undoubtedly be partially driven by partisan warfare, it is difficult to shake off the belief that potentially deeper psychological proclivities are guiding such perspectives.

I hope that by reading this you now understand that the environment and our proclivity for making cognitive errors can lead us to overeat by a lot more than we think, even when we believe we're being diligent.

I know many people are beginning to blindly follow this idea that everyone has an individual diet preference, while i personally adhere to the belief that individuality in diet is governed by individual pathology; though we all have genetic differences i don't think they are large enough to govern major differences in food consumption (i.e. kitavans don't eat potatoes because they have some proclivity towards them, rather it's because that's all that is available)

The increase in the online dating market has also been accompanied by a dramatic rise in the number of sites catering to various groups and proclivities, ranging from bibliophiles to tall people, cat lovers, rubber fetishists and even those who are already married.

Its light comic aspirations are exemplified by Mr. Popper's perky secretary Pippy (nicely played by Ophelia Lovibond) and her peculiar proclivity for the persistent practice of alliteration pertaining to the letter p.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

«Creation,» based on the book written by Darwin's great - great - grandson and entitled Annie's Box, is a secular hagiography of Darwin, which is not surprising, given that modern films have a proclivity towards themes that fly in the face of biblical teachings.

In line with the show's proclivity towards namedropping as a means of characterisation, the second episode sees her reference having been emailed by Spike Lee about her short film.

Cronenberg's proclivity for parasites, after all, is essentially the admiration of creatures defined by their hunger.

The wry saliency of this graphic scene isn't that Reygadas is Hegelian in his thoughts on the individual and the spirit, but how he exposes the absurdity of the rich seeking to make their sexual proclivities permissible by intellectualizing them.

Her father, Edward, portrayed with solemnity and an unavoidable touch of wryness by Keith Carradine, is a lawyer with liberal proclivities and possessed of some religious skepticism, not exactly an au courant view in Amherst polite society.

Working with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), Emmerich's other proclivities are evident, including a life or death scenario that threatens the fabric of society, a quest to prove worth against the odds, the reuniting of a fractured family, and the triumph of American values when the stakes are heightened.

The state, as it were, is a hyper - corporatized Japan that's functionally controlled by Hanka Robotics, whose technologies turned Major from a refugee left for dead into a cyborg with a proclivity for swan - diving from high - rises with automatic weapons in tow.

Longitudinal evaluations of the effects of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that student achievement outcomes were not consistently affected by vouchers but other vital student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school choice.

Pryor, Vallas, Adamowski and the other «education reformers» appear to have a proclivity to by - pass the competitive bidding requirements or the need to get a group of the impacted people together to review alternative vendors and products.

I have read a great many criticisms of this book by people who either expected it to be solely about the PCT itself, or were offended by the author's use of coarse language and discussion of her sexual proclivities.

No Chance for Nighthawks Pilgrammage — Attendees to the Whitney Museum's latest exhibition of works by Edward Hopper may be encouraged to visit the site of Nighthawks, the American artist's most famous painting, but «Hopper Drawing» curator Carl Foster is quick to burst any potential bubbles, musing that the diner in the image is most likely an amalgamation of multiple mid-century New York locales, citing Hopper's proclivity for synthesizing.

Abstraction,» implies that no single modifier of «abstraction» will suffice to characterize a currently dominant trend; reductive, gestural, and hard - edge proclivities are represented by accomplished mid-career painters.

Working with layers of acrylic paint that are by turns poured, pooled, filled and wiped away she uses the natural proclivities of the liquid medium to establish a rhythm of organic patterns that she fills with intricate geometric structures.

Nochlin was unwilling, that is, to abide by either the prescriptions of modernist formalism or the postmedium proclivities of postmodernist criticism.

Altogether, the show is a stark reminder by this extraordinary ninety - year old artist of the darker proclivities of humanity.

«Scopophilia,» a term borrowed from the psychoanalytic set to denote a desire rooted in observation, is a fitting title for an exhibition by an artist well known for her voyeuristic proclivities: Nan Goldin's latest show is a penetrating, self - critical look at a career spent depicting others.

In this unique graphite drawing, monstrous facial features are distorted and bestial, and typical of the renowned artist's proclivity for combining and re-imagining techniques popularized by Baroque, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Surrealism.

I believe it would much more wisely responsible for us adults to allow ourselves to be influenced by the quality of care involved in listening to other people as if they mattered; because the absence of such care (i. e., carelessness) seems to lie at the basis of our species» most unsustainable proclivities.

«But its critics claim that InsideClimate News is essentially a mouthpiece run by a public - relations consultancy that gets its funding almost exclusively from groups with an environmental agenda... The little that is known about InsideClimate News raises questions about conflicts of interest as well as about the publication's ability, and proclivity, to report fairly and without bias.»

You could ask James McWilliams what he meant by the quote — given my famous proclivities for selectively cutting and pasting.

It seems obvious that amphibians, with their permeable skin and proclivity for aquatic environments, would be among the first to be effected by chemical pollution and environmental degradation.

Knowing full well of Laminack's proclivities, OLP and LPM simply adopted the expedient practice of enabling Laminack's tastes by handsomely compensating injured employees in exchange for their perpetual silence.

A natural proclivity to place assertions made by others under intense scrutiny pays off in spades in a high stakes courtroom battle, so it's probably a good thing that the lawyers studied demonstrated atypically high levels of scepticism.

Fortunately, experts found a solution for an effective shared parenting practice and that would be dividing responsibilities by proclivity.

If replicated by future studies, these preliminary findings suggest that the MAOA - L would confer a vulnerability to negative social experiences, including early trauma, and a specific proclivity toward reactive aggression, i.e. that type of aggression triggered by exaggerated levels of negative emotion, such as anger and anxiety.

His proclivity to persevere is only exceeded by his perpetually positive disposition and engaging energy.