Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes. ' It's hard to say 'No.
I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
A mighty stream of tendency.
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.
I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.
I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.
Guys have been having a lot of questions about whether or not I can play man-to-man, so I've been watching a lot of film lately. I'm trying to study tendencies of receivers that are already in the NFL, so I can have a jump on them once I get to that next level l so I can know what to look for and what to be prepared for.