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Example sentences for: proclivity

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Another, he continued, was the Englishman's proclivity for port.
(This damning detail was reported earlier in Time .) Another hobby was appearing in high-school variety shows, where he dressed as a girl--the Enquirer publishes a silly, but less than titillating, example of this proclivity.
However, agency efforts to use COTS products have been hampered by the government's failure to communicate requirements and functionality effectively to the vendors and a proclivity on the part of agencies to modify software to meet existing business processes and to replicate previous system functionality.
It is not hard to see why publicity- and work-hungry actresses might like ubiquitous, but it would be wise to give up attempts at analysis before coping with eggplant and kumquat, though Frumkes does suggest that they reflect a proclivity for ovoid objects.
Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses).