proclivity

How To Use proclivity In A Sentence

• In his encyclical on ecumenism, Pope Paul II speaks of the need to overcome our exclusiveness, our reluctance to forgive, our pride, our presumptuous disdain, and our unevangelical proclivity to condemn the other side.
• There has been enough mockery in the Western media concerning the proclivity of Chinese people to create counterfeit Western goods.
• Or perhaps the two of them share a certain proclivity for denial in the face of evidence and facts. Obama's nominee for Office of Legal Counsel: pregnancy is slavery
• The system, at this point, demonstrates a strong proclivity to monetize rising prices - inflation begetting higher inflation.
• Adam had always shown much more proclivity for curling up in his father's lap near a warm fire and listening to a good story than for tromping through snowdrifts.
• We were neither of us womanish, and despite his proclivity to wear clothes dangerously close to the dandy set he was a hard sportsman.
• But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
• Tina always had a slight proclivity for sermonizing, but a chapter in Ecclesiastes, coming from little preachers with lips and eyes like hers, is generally acceptable. Oldtown Folks
• Natalie Angier weighs in on the human proclivity for cursing in a lengthy essay in the NYT: "The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood Science Project
• What does that say about our own friendships and our unfortunate proclivity to ignore people who are not similar?