"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is a perhaps fatal tendency for Australian males to portray themselves in film as rogue warriors.
- The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
- I think this was due partly to inexperience and partly to a fatal tendency to attempt to compromise with people who regard any form of compromise as weakness.
- Hard on the heels of the furore about women priests it now has to contend with something equally knotty - the fatal British tendency to be kind to animals.
- But it can be a dangerous game, and you hope it's not a fatal tendency.
- All five share two things: an overfondness for alcohol and a fatal tendency to take Julian's remarks as gospel.
- I have a fatal tendency to prove my superiority at the expense of my friends and kinfolk.
- I think I have inherited this fatal tendency.
- Basil Duke Lee is a bright, sensitive, likeable boy, constantly betrayed by a fatal tendency to brag and boss.
- In terms of talent, he reportedly outshone all his peers, but "he owned a self-destruct button and had a fatal tendency to press it".
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