predilection

How To Use predilection In A Sentence

• The restaurant, with its acre of tables, glassed and naperied; the ranges of telephone booths, all going it together; the cellars, a vast subterrene, with dusky avenues of lockers, each cluttered with beverages of individual predilection -- though I suppose that, after all, they were a good deal alike .... On the Stairs
• Like most dandies, his predilection for high-style fashion and cosmetic beauty betrays a likeness to his female counterparts.
• They have the same predilection for green stones (saussurite) which we observed among the Carib nations of the Orinoco. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• Studying biology may yet lead to greater tolerance for the vast repertory of human sexual foibles, preferences, and predilections.
• It is essentially simple, but with enough internal twists and turns to accommodate most predilections and appetites.
• His predilection for gray-greens, gray-pinks, pale ochers, browns, blacks and a luminous cobalt blue call up archaic Mediterranean origins, rusticated walls and early Italian frescoes.
• A delightful event, but things gang aft agley when a certain mayor cracks wise about a certain nation's reputation for thriftiness and predilection for men in ‘skirts.’
• Certainly, the widespread predilection for the fancy and frivolous has its roots in decades of drab socialist conformity.
• All of her fictions are heavily influenced by scholarship and by the predilections of the cultivated English intellectual and academic class of which she is a part.
• As the narrator cleans the mansion of his dead employer, the reader learns of Kaji's predilection for cloning dead celebrities and engaging in lascivious acts. REVIEW: Voices From Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas