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• But what is it that gives tendency in art, then? (9)
• And here also, the young men have a tendency to emigrate. (2)
• Probably I have too much tendency to negation of all sorts. (8)
• Their tendency is to return to the natural color of the cement. (17)
• Is it, do you think chronic unemployment with a vagrant tendency? (8)
• For a while, habit and the automatic tendency of desire carry them on. (9)
• His early creations show a tendency to fantastic and imaginative subjects. (3)
• And I hope you will not be cruelly concealing any tendency to indisposition. (4)
• The analytic tendency seems to have increased with him as his work has gone on. (9)
• Thus it served to counteract in part the reactionary tendency of Italian opera. (3)
• Her father sat, enjoying the talk, at the foot of the bed, with a tendency to doze. (9)
• This is nothing more than the tendency of the generations downward from the ideal. (10)
• A bad tendency of hers to mock at him, not openly, but in continual little ways, had grown. (8)
• The tendency, too, is enhanced by the articles under which the Associated Press is incorporated. (16)
• It could hardly be otherwise, although it is possible that there is nothing deliberate in the tendency. (16)
• The tendency of her hair to creep loose of its bands gave her handsome face an aspect deliriously wild. (10)
• Still, his gift was essentially lyrical and meditative, with the universal New England tendency to allegory. (9)
• In fact, the charge of narrowness accuses the whole tendency of modern fiction as much as the American school. (9)
• They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier. (4)
• The tendency of builders to imitate orchestral tone and effects has had influence on composers and players alike. (3)
• This tendency and the invention of the Madrigal furnished the basis for a new instrumental school at a later date. (3)
• An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family. (4)
• He shows a greater warmth of feeling and a tendency toward melody which they considered as a lowering of their ideals. (3)
• She put to her account some strength, much weakness; she almost dared to gaze unblinking at a perilous evil tendency. (10)
• But the modern tendency is to a type where flames do not destroy, nor moth corrupt, nor thieves break through and steal. (9)
• That fatally aristocratic tendency of the first Forsyte to drink Madeira had left his descendants undoubtedly accessible. (8)
• The country might be suffering a bit from officialism, and the tendency of modern thought, but the breed was not changing. (8)
• The tendency of his teaching was toward artificiality, as he delighted in puzzle canons and other exhibitions of ingenuity. (3)
• She wounded him by not supplying the expected enthusiastic asseveration of her belief in his general tendency to magnanimity. (10)
• In the measure of that tendency it would gain the public confidence without which it can benefit no one—not even the publisher. (16)
• They were aware, too, of a strange capriciousness in their senses, and of a tendency of each to palter with the things perceived. (9)
• Adela was suffering from a tendency to levity, which she knew to be unbefitting the occasion, and likely to defeat its significance. (10)
• There is nothing so indicative of fevered or of bad blood as the tendency to counsel the Almighty how he shall deal with his creatures. (10)
• There is nothing so indicative of fevered or of bad blood as the tendency to counsel the Almighty how he shall deal with his creatures. (22)
• He carried to the highest fruition the teachings of the Netherlands, tempered by the romantic and melodic tendency of the Italian nature. (3)
• Where the stone has a natural tendency to cleave into long, flat shapes, the rough rubble may become more regularly coursed in appearance. (17)
• He made some investigation into the use of chromatics, thus showing the growing tendency to abandon the Church modes for the natural scales. (3)
• The difference was through the difference of Boston and New York in everything: the difference between idealising and the realising tendency. (9)
• Lucy here looked up; but Elinor was careful in guarding her countenance from every expression that could give her words a suspicious tendency. (4)
• Nevertheless he does read his English; he has, too, the fatal tendency to the bringing forth of Bills in the manner of Jove big with Minerva. (10)
• The gambler that sits down to play cards, or hazard against himself, may perhaps be the only person that can comprehend this tendency of mine. (6)
• Giddiness had seized her, and her heart, whose tendency to disease had long awakened the apprehension of the physicians, contracted convulsively. (5)
• How often had Emma bewailed to her that the most, grievous burden of her malady was her fatal tendency to brood sickly upon human complications! (10)
• Aside from such thraldom, newspapers are subject to the tendency of diverse businesses to become tied together by the cross-investments of their owners. (16)

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