Tendencies

Examples

• These were but the outward and visible symbols of his westering tendencies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Modern psychology has substituted for the general, ready-made faculties of older theory a complex group of instinctive and impulsive tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With cats, for instance, one naturally takes to catching rats, and another mice, and these tendencies are known to be inherited. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The same tendencies apply with some modifications to the clothing of mankind. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was difficult to believe that Thomasin would be cheered by a husband with such tendencies as these. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Similar tendencies had already appeared among the English Wycliffites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now Rawdon Crawley, rascal as the Colonel was, had certain manly tendencies of affection in his heart and could love a child and a woman still. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A multitude whose tendencies could be perceived, though not its essences. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Or contrary tendencies in the child are appealed to to divert him from his troublesome line of behavior. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And another is to see panic in the face of a failed bullfighter of Communist tendencies when I say, as a joke, I might kiss him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The iron country farther north is, I suppose, the congenial direction for a boy with these tendencies. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The human being is born with a greater number of instinctive tendencies than other animals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He serves the ideals of human feelings, not the tendencies of mechanical things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These responses proceed from tendencies already possessed by the individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They started out to abolish human instincts, check economic tendencies and repress social changes by laws prohibiting them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To be means for the achieving of present tendencies, to be between the agent and his end, to be of interest, are different names for the same thing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But of these tendencies the world at large was as yet practically unconscious in the sixteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are ever parting, ever meeting; and the identity or diversity of their tendencies or operations is for the most part unnoticed by us. Plato. The Republic.

Edited by Ellis