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
-
They argue that Shakespeare's coarseness is the result of the age and not personal predilection, completely ignoring the work of men like Sir Philip Sidney and Spenser, indeed practically all the pre-Shakespearean writers, in whom none of this so-called grossness exists.
Lysistrata
-
The altoist wrote all of the compositions except for two: one is Mingus's melancholy "Self Portrait in Three Colors," the other a cover of, yes, "All Neon Like," by Bjork, an ongoing predilection for both Osby and Moran.
Hidden Talents
-
Bianca Jagger famously wore his shoes for her entrance into Studio 54, sitting astride a white charger; the Princess of Wales was a fan; and the "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw had such a predilection for his heels that "Manolos" became a household name.
Manolo Blahnik: Feet First
-
She has clearly expressed that she has no interest in this, so I've kept my predilection to myself.
-
And, as it happens, my verdict on the material collected here is distinctly mixed; but I do not think it a verdict dictated solely by personal predilections.
-
If our Lord will require His flock at the hands of their pastors, He will undoubtedly require from them a stricter account of that part of his flock for which he has always shown a particular predilection, that is, for children.
Public School Education
-
The insistence on the exclusion of English has become, as of now, a sort of status symbol, a touchstone of supremacy and learning, to many of our linguistic torch-bearers, not to speak of their avowed predilection for regionalism.
-
Further muddying the outlook, Fed officials have offered conflicting signals on their policy predilections in recent weeks, with some pushing for a very aggressive stimulus and others highly skeptical of any additional accommodation.
The Fed Quantitative Easing: What You Can Expect
-
Of course the court will approach those interests with a strong predilection in favour of the preservation of life, because of the sanctity of human life.
-
 The rebooted Invisible Kid was last seen with his teammates, drifting off into space, unbound from time, but still together …  Immediately afterwards, we are introduced to a new iteration of the 30th century, and the first character that we meet is young Lyle Norg, whose parents are very unhappy that he seems to share a predilection with many kids his age: hero worship of the “youth group” known as the Legion.
Hero History: Invisible Kid | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
-
He is a grammarian, a swordsman, a musician with a predilection for the fugue.
-
Like every other institution, the Washington and political press corps operate with a good number of biases and predilections.
-
From my own experience of reading parties, I should select as their peculiar characteristics, a tendency to hats and caps of such remarkable shapes, as, if once sported in the college quadrangle, would be the subject of a common-room _instanter_; and, among some individuals (whom we may call the peripatetic philosophers of the party) a predilection for seedy shooting-coats and short pipes, with which they perambulate the neighbourhood to the marvel of the aboriginal inhabitants; while those whom we may class with the stoics, display a preference for dressing-gowns and meerschaums, and confine themselves principally to the doorways and open windows of their respective lodgings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
-
A predilection for forms over human figures characterises her work in installation art.
-
The hardest part in confessing all this is that aside from my pronounced predilection for pratfalls, I really can't justify our forbidden love.
-
Of course, my predilection is for reporting, and any pundity I do I like to keep subordinate to the reportage.
Back to basics ...
-
There may be other genetics at work than simply a predilection for neophobia.
Neophobia
-
a predilection for expensive cars
-
Spark has always had the facility to be silkily suave as she goes about examining our predilection for worshipping false gods.
-
But his violent past finally catches up with the hood turned husband and father in this rumination on America's predatory predilection to use force.
-
These ratios have traditionally been used to show stock market tops and bottoms, but they have lost some utility lately because of the predilection to arbitrage skews the results.
-
Nearly all, in short, evinced a predilection for the Good Creature in some of its various shapes, for this is a vice to which, as Fast Day sermons of a hundred years ago will testify, we have a long hereditary claim.
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
-
I think it is part of Dadd's predilection for double-speak and dangerous puns: "Elimination" contains the word "limn" which is a good word for painting, but also is part of Dadd's habit of decrying painting as pointless and worthless.
The Guardian World News
-
Does a secret murmur here demand: if a discerning predilection is no crime, why, internally at least, may it not be cherished? whom can it injure or offend, that, in the hidden recesses of my own breast, I nourish superior preference of superior worth?
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
-
Scattered examples of gynocracy are to be found in other parts of the world, and in their later development some of the Aryan races have been rather partial to women as monarchs, and striking instances of a like predilection are to be met with among the Semitic tribes, -- Boadicea,
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
-
The Galway side barely made acquaintance with the Edinburgh 22 during the opening half-hour, their predilection for the up-and-under rarely backed up with decent pressure on the home bodies waiting for the ball to return to earth.
-
I can respect another man 's predilection for them without understanding it.
The Education of a Gardener
-
He has a predilection for wallpaper and wrapping paper, to which he applies repetitive motifs using stamps made from cut and engraved blocks of wood dipped in printer's ink or paint.
-
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
-
The Court's reasonings, such as they are, have become a study in personal opinions and predilections.
-
According to a new sub-branch of economics, the way we view risk, the way we choose to invest, even our political predilections are determined by the prevailing economic conditions in our late teens and early twenties.
The quiet agony of the recession generation
-
The predilection to moral generalization is more troublesome.
-
Eugenia too, caught by his eccentricity, was powerfully impelled to watch and admire him; and not the less, in the unenvying innocency of her heart, for his evident predilection in favour of her cousin.
Camilla
-
Thanks for the God's predilection, I am slender and have a genius of music.
-
He has a predilection for wallpaper and wrapping paper, to which he applies repetitive motifs using stamps made from cut and engraved blocks of wood dipped in printer's ink or paint.
-
To an eye so unobserving as that of Bucklaw, her demeanour had little more of reluctance than might suit the character of a bashful young lady, who, however, he could not disguise from himself, was complying with the choice of her friends rather than exercising any personal predilection in his favour.
The Bride of Lammermoor
-
It also provided a window on the long-standing predilections of a generation or three of trustees who got goose-bumps when anything English strayed into their path.
-
This, after all, is a place where people don't mind being called ‘Bennies’ (after Benny from Crossroads) because of their predilection for wearing bobble hats.
-
His loyalty to the British Government at a time when the National movement was raging and his efforts to shore up a tottering feudal institution were not pure personal predilections or momentary aberrations.
-
A famous cadger, he had a kamikaze predilection for turning on benefactors and friends.
-
Despite our predilection for the world's wild places, Sara and I also enjoy a little culture now and again.
-
Whatever your predilection is as a filmmaker, as the technologies and modes of delivery emerge … if you want to do abstract, feminist, animations with meat … you’ll be able to find your consumer.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
-
John was a colourful figure, with a predilection for striped blazers, white silk dinner jackets, hats, buttonholes, and club ties, of which he had a magnificent collection.
-
For a guy with a mostly technical / quant predilection, I did a lot of pure fundamental research.
-
I wonder if spanking is a particularly British predilection?
Tart Cards
-
The "navarin" was my poor husband's predilection -- when he had eaten one made by me, he used to say that the fleshpots of Egypt were certainly the "navarin" and nothing else.
The White Sister
-
The caccia is - as its name implies – the description of a chase or, maybe, of other realistic, dramatic scenes; it shows a predilection for the Canon with its parts setting in one after another, imitating each other and using sound-depicting effects.
Archive 2009-06-01
-
Certainly, the widespread predilection for the fancy and frivolous has its roots in decades of drab socialist conformity.
-
Depending on your predilection, you can say that's a good thing or bad thing, but, for the likes of me, the modern world is often execrable.
-
The most common cause of fungal meningitis, Cryptococcosis (torulosis) is a fungal disease with a marked predilection for lung and brain.
-
The aforementioned points reflect a disturbing but common trait among provincial, state and federal "environmental" agencies in jurisdictions throughout North America - specifically, an obsessive predilection that drives wildlife managers to reflexively default to the oxymoronic tactic of conservation-by-killing.
Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
-
Fortunately, irrespective of my personal predilections, secularism in India is unlikely to flourish, at least in the near future.
-
Like all florists, he had a predilection for one particular plant; the pelargonium was his especial favorite.
The Collection of Antiquities
-
How could Paulsons opinions and predilections about subprime RMBS have been "unbeknownst" to ACA at the time?
SEC vs. Goldman: A Case Of Amnesia?
-
There is, however, a predilection for materials and principles of gravity, weight, mass, density and balance.
-
In the past, the band's predilection for exotic instrumentation would sometimes result in stray accordions or sleigh bells getting completely buried in an amorphous mash.
-
Of course the court will approach those interests with a strong predilection in favour of the preservation of life, because of the sanctity of human life.
-
Does the same evolutionary predilection lead physicists and mathematicians to see beauty in the unobserved, or unobservable?
-
It seems to have a predilection for young adults, as did its notorious ancestor, the 1918 Spanish influenza.
-
They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess.
-
Even Americans, with their predilection for absurd forenames, would stop short of dubbing a child De Sade.
-
He built an hospital for the sick of all kinds, but the objects of his predilection were the lepers, and those hopelessly afflicted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
-
Ella expressed her surprise once or twice during the day, both at the somewhat abrupt manner in which our encampment on shore was broken up, and at Bob's sudden predilection for so unsailorlike an amusement as mountain-climbing; but I answered her carelessly, anxious not to alarm the dear little girl by acquainting her with the fact that we had unexpectedly acquired such very undesirable neighbours.
For Treasure Bound
-
Infants develop a predilection for the sugar that is present in both breast and formula milk.
-
And of that decimal, each of the paired-off opponents tend to give their own predilections an overwhelming bias in sorting out new information.
Avoiding Truth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
-
De Stancy had long since discovered that his chance lay chiefly in her recently acquired and fanciful predilection d'artiste for hoary mediaeval families with ancestors in alabaster and primogenitive renown.
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
-
"When making up our mind about this we should come at it calmly and reasonably and set aside our personal grudges and predilections.
-
Our western predilection of talking in terms of binary oppositions finds an array of contrasts to play with in Wuthering Heights.
-
Given, then, that volcanoes have a predilection for the seaside, let's now pin down more precisely where they occur.
-
If they work as a team burying their individual predilections and preferences there is no reason why the team cannot get back its rhythm.
-
Thus the famous passage on the disavowal of the "negative" and the human "predilection for the affirmative" is also transposed from the end in the second version
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
-
But when you get right down to it, there are personal predilections when it comes to the purchase of any product.
-
Nonetheless, hobos, like tramps, acquired a reputation for their carefree way of life, their predilection for booze, and a canon of whimsical folk songs and stories.
-
Therefore, he has a predilection for molesting, to bootstrap this one charge.
-
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
-
Despite his predilection for this sort of self-seeking behaviour, there are many who don't want him to jump.
-
Still, it can be said that Hiroshima is veverywhere in postwar and contemporary fiction -- in its themes of futurelessness and absurdity, and its predilection for violent orengeful behavior by heroes and anti-heroes alike.
Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age
-
In general, he has a predilection for the rills and runnels of the past, the tributaries of history rather than what you might consider to be its mainstreams.
-
Unlike desired hyaline cartilage, repair fibrocartilage has diminished resilience and a predilection for deterioration over time.
-
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
-
The rejoinder, of course, is that while we all have our individual estimations of the skills and predilections of each enforcement level, none has a monopoly on virtue.
-
Addressing this problem is no easy matter, not because of its global dimensions and its Sisyphean predilections, but because there is no catch-all solution.
-
This American predilection, which is neither good nor bad, has resulted in movies that are grand social documents Schindler's
SFGate: Top News Stories
-
I can't take any credit for it; it's just about helping people understand their own predilections.
-
Capetians, is the only royal family in world history to have ruled in an unbroken salic succession of males for over 1300 years, argues for extraordinary divine predilection, to say the least.
Archive 2008-01-20
-
There did not seem to be a specific predilection for laterality, although the number of cases was too small to be significant.
-
Post toe-sties: Sometimes, you just have to applaud The New York Post and its willingness to skewer even the hometown coach and his alleged predilections cover at right.
NFL playoffs live: Wes Welker benched for start of Jets-Patriots
-
Sulloway says that \ "Firstborns sought to prove their revolutionary loyalties by their He finds that a laterborn who is removed and predilection for violence, not by their reared by a relative as a firstborn behaves devotion to liberalism\" (p. 313). like a typical firstborn.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows
-
Atheroma is a discrete plaque containing lipid deposits that arises in the intima of an artery and has a predilection for areas of tortuosity and turbulence of blood flow.
-
The creativity of the poet's daimonic reflections can be especially appreciated in his predilection for the adjective ‘mystique.’
-
This supposition becomes more likely in light of Hamann's predilection for parables as the most appropriate genre for telling the truth.
-
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
-
This would explain my predilection for rapini, since my mother serves it every Thanksgiving.
-
The duped are the vast majority of U.S. citizens, living in a bubble painted by their own predilections and corporate-owned media.
The Good, The Bad and The Duped
-
During his lifetime, his visits to mediums, holdings of seances, and hosts of other supernatural predilections remained guarded secrets.
-
John was a colourful figure, with a predilection for striped blazers, white silk dinner jackets, hats, buttonholes, and club ties, of which he had a magnificent collection.
-
However, in each case we see an intellectual predilection for stressing the active role of individuals in the social construction of social reality.
-
The collection of the Museum of Unexploded Bombs is not organised along taxonomical or historical lines, but in displays that reflect the aesthetic predilections of its curator.
July « 2010 « Squares of Wheat
-
Personally, my predilection is toward the no-tilt side.
Archive 2005-01-01
-
Chaplin's appeal was perhaps a bit more audience-pleasing; certainly, he was much more sentimental than Keaton, whose predilection for absurdism ultimately led to collaborations with existentialist Samuel Beckett.
-
Most readers have had a predilection to dismiss the arguments and speculations.
-
The unintelligibility of this Court's precedent raises the further concern that, either in appearance or in fact, adjudication of Establishment Clause challenges turns on judicial predilections.
-
In our confessional culture, it is socially acceptable - even fashionable - to disclose your sexual predilections, your husband's problem with painkillers, your penchant for high colonics.
-
But as it was intended to be a poem on _Ariosto's plan, _ that _is_ to _say_ on _no plan_ at all, and, as is usual in similar cases, having a predilection for the worst passages, I shall retain those parts, though I cannot venture to defend them.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
-
Atheroma is a discrete plaque containing lipid deposits that arises in the intima of an artery and has a predilection for areas of tortuosity and turbulence of blood flow.
-
Both these species have a predilection for arachnid flesh but are otherwise quite different.
-
The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
-
Does the same evolutionary predilection lead physicists and mathematicians to see beauty in the unobserved, or unobservable?
-
His predilection for favourites, whether or not based on homosexual attraction, was politically disastrous.
-
She seemed completely up to the interview, however, so there was no reason not to ask at least one tough question, most obviously, about her political predilections.
-
The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
-
Because I very much enjoy reading about people's lives an unappreciative therapist might term my predilection voyeurism, I gravitate toward the biography and memoir section of libraries and bookstores.
NPR Topics: News
