Example sentences for: proclivities

How can you use “proclivities” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A WP companion piece, though, warns that it's impossible to pigeonhole Posner's views and proclivities, and that neither side in the case should feel as though it's been appointed an ally.

  • Confidential to Martin: You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a "World Exclusive" interview in which you're quoted disclosing "titillating details" about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities.

  • Those of conservative or center-right proclivities characteristically look at America's past through the eyes of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat who toured the fledgling United States in the 1830s, gathering observations and ideas that were, in due course, published in Democracy in America . Tocqueville's opus has become one of the modern world's most influential political ethnographies--that is, a set of densely descriptive observations of another nation, written to influence political debates back in one's own country.

  • Pro- and anti-gay polemicists debate the sexual proclivities of Jar Jar Binks and Abe Lincoln.

  • Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.


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