Predilections

Even in the grand duel between Achilles and Hector, the winner is the warrior less modern in his habits and predilections.

We must realize that we are not gods, and that we cannot reorder Creation at our whim to suit our own ambitions and predilections.

Left-of-center political parties have little different to suggest; only patter about personal morals, dictatorial predilections, and democratic values.

Not only do we lack access to information that we can acquire only by plunging into the scalding water of a new life, but we cannot foresee how such a jolt will overhaul the very predilections and values that define who we are.

Such denials conveniently sidestep analyzing one’s core beliefs, and the consequences of one’s political predilections and beliefs about human nature.

We, my eye and I, know her habits, her tours of the city, her weaknesses, her preferences, her afflictions, her perversions, her hates and her predilections.

But it also is in perfect alignment with Trump’s predilections.

Such is the overbearing nature of land on the life and politics of this Land, indeed on the lives of all its children, however wayward their political predilections may be to begin with.

Burghley was more cautious of military engagement while in a dilemma over his Protestant predilections.

His poetic sense was based on the conventional tastes of his friend Charles Cowden Clarke, who first introduced him to the classics, and also came from the predilections of Hunt's Examiner, which Keats read as a boy.