Sentences with word «proclivity»

Kindergarten teachers seem to have a natural proclivity for fostering this type of classroom family.

AFP (Alphafetoprotein) screening occurs later in pregnancy and tests for proclivity of chromosomal abnormalities or birth defects.

Also, if VR is going to take off, it will be with PC gamers since they have a natural proclivity towards newer technology.

A husband - and - wife team of neuropsychologists whose work has shed light on the interplay between genes and the environment in determining proclivity toward violence have been awarded the $ 1 million Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize.

Usually concerning the skin color or alleged sexual proclivities of the day's opponents, the N and F words are pretty much nonstop for two hours.

Thanks to cats» natural proclivities for eliminating in a loose substrate, we don't even have to «train» cats to use the litterbox.

What the leader needs to do is to show proclivity to the wellbeing of the talakawas — the poor masses — who account for the huge voting population in the north and who are also used to promote political violence in the event that reasonable expectations are not met after the election.

Reading his dad for what he is, Max exhibits his own proclivity for getting his way once they are together.

Augustine's diagnosis is much the same: our tendency to devote ourselves to lesser gods such as ambition, sex, food or money — our human proclivity toward what he calls «disordered loves» — prevents our seeing straight.

Edith is the last of the Finch family, who have shown over the past century a certain proclivity for finding early and tragic deaths.

The millennials» much - known proclivity towards sustainability issues and positive brand images may have you believing they are your prospective buyers.

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?)

Perhaps Kai Althoff's homage to the fluid seductiveness of Jewish masculinity hung on translucent silk curtains is the show's most grandiose artwork; it's exceptionally beautiful and weird in a German - Catholic - homo sort of way, and you can see how, in the moments where the more dangerous confluences of personal proclivities begin to surface, the curators» premise allows for a kind of Huysmans-esque inventiveness.

The downside of that is that if we had one unified development platform, it would make it a lot harder to express the different characters, the different proclivities of our titles — we make a very broad range of games, and it might affect the variation we can get in there.

Region: West Bengal How It's Cooked: Boiled The Dish: The cuisine of West Bengal shares a particular proclivity for slathering things in mustard.

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

Common technique with other religions, but in Islam with its other proclivities to violence and murder and its glorification of «martyrs» who do its horrific deeds to nonbelievers, it's particularly sinister, and we know how awful the results can be.

It might have shared a segment space with Lincoln and Cadillac, but it certainly didn't share the same proclivity for effortless highway cruising as the Americans.

Wretched creatures like Stefano Valentini, an artist with dark proclivities and unbounded imagination.

One of them is the hypothesis that the countercultural shift of the 1960s is responsible for the patterns now observed in the religious proclivities of younger Americans.

As Christians, however, we must insist that our sexual desires, orientations, and proclivities do not provide a basis for redefining marriage.

Some individuals come into this world with a strong proclivity towards anger.

Given Penn's real life political proclivities and his busted romantic affair with Theron, the film will surely carry personal influences... just like Godard's Mepris.

Rather, the paradox is that while he is committed to understanding alternative viewpoints from the inside and exhibits intellectual proclivities associated with the conservative spirit, Walzer rarely engages with conservatives and conservative thought.

At some point, you stop fighting such proclivities and say, «That's who I am, and it gives me a lot of pleasure.»

I guess we can love people because they are unlovable like me and my flesh's death bent proclivity at religious perfomance and pride.

Think of how important the make - up and emotional proclivities of juries are to both convictions and acquittals.

The first hour of this relationship drama is terrific, and the second hour sags a bit, but there is no arguing with the performance of Dakota Johnson, who is superb as a young woman experiencing a sexual awakening at the hands of a billionaire with sadistic proclivities.

Furthermore, it makes no sense that evolution would have selected for the hunting behavior, hunting proclivities, and hunting culture themselves unless there was a deep economic need underlying it.

Parton explains how these closer synapses result in a generally more pessimistic outlook: «Through repetition of thought, you've brought the pair of synapses that represent your [negative] proclivities closer and closer together, and when the moment arises for you to form a thought... the thought that wins is the one that has less distance to travel, the one that will create a bridge between synapses fastest.»

Grafman's team found patterns of blood flow in specific areas of the brain suggesting certain ideological proclivities that could be correlated with party affiliation.

It very much reflects the vision of Timothy George, its founding and present dean, a Baptist of Calvinist proclivities who believes that evangelical Protestantism should be fully engaged in the quest for greater Christian unity.

The naysayers and the leery - eyed peasants of pompous proclivities will always surround the cupboard lain bare!

It may be your predeliction and may reflect your bent proclivity but leave the rest of us out of it.

At the fire are numerous pots and kettles, around which are dusky, female figures, and faces that are suggestive of «the weird sisters» whose culinary proclivities were such a source of annoyance to Macbeth.

In the broader research literature, many instruments have emerged to measure the frequency, severity, and general proclivity toward violence in adolescents, but few address adolescent - to - parent violence specifically (Cornell and Gelles 1982; Tarter et al. 2002; Wilson 1996).

Please forgive me if I assume that my politically questionable proclivities apply conversely and to athletes of today.

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.

This possibility is driving a nascent but growing effort among scientists to link the impact of mercury and other environmental factors (everything from pollutants and diet to the sun's ultraviolet rays) to the individual genetic proclivities that each of us is born with.

It's not always easy sharing our fetishes with a new lover, and most mainstream dating sites don't encourage posting your kinky proclivities on your profile.

As India, the fatherless young woman who comes to suspect her «Uncle Charlie» is a murderer, Wasikowska deftly uses her delicate features as a counterbalance to her character's darker and more perverse proclivities — for the film is less a mystery about who Uncle Charlie is and more so who India really is.

First, the script tames some of the more egregious proclivities of late, telling a story free from the buckets of irony and sarcasm that are usually employed as a form of distancing, allowing a modern audience to enjoy such an overt tale confident that they know what kind of story this is.

That's because it's a duplicate updated with an increased proclivity for skewing statistics.

Obviously this is the launch day and small proclivities are bound to happen.

How does Olly's way of looking at the world — of observing the people and things around him — and his translation of that view into words illustrate his artistic proclivities?