Use "dilection" in a sentence

1. now understood why she had such a predilection for

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2. They seem, however, to have some predilection for the latter

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3. The funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour are not only much greater in the former than in the latter, but bear a much greater proportion to those which, though they may be employed to maintain either productive or unproductive hands, have generally a predilection for the latter

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4. The beauty of the country, besides, the pleasure of a country life, the tranquillity of mind which it promises, and, wherever the injustice of human laws does not disturb it, the independency which it really affords, have charms that, more or less, attract everybody; and as to cultivate the ground was the original destination of man, so, in every stage of his existence, he seems to retain a predilection for this primitive employment

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5. ” Apply the brakes on your predilection for

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6. us, given your predilection for running off and doing who-knows-what on our time

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7. But it’s not my predilection to go spying on single men in their private moments

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8. I will now formally state my predilections: one, that I wish to hang myself at the nearest opportune moment in order to escape further unneeded physical torment under these circumstances, and two, that I wish for my remains to be burned, as is customary under Law, even though I fail to see what a fat lot of good that would do

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9. come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attach-

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10. Personal opinions or predilections, if any, should be scrupulously put aside

11. Void of all predilections, I am free to love

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12. Be free from predilections and preferences and the

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13. Continued activity, predilection towards worldly life, ( pra, before + vritti,

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14. paternalist; economic necessity, political calculation, and personal predilection combined to set his course in the late 1870’s and 1880’s

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15. This supplied one more reason for their statist predilection

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16. From Venezuelan parents, the eldest of four children, showed since very early years a marked predilection for the genre of novel and short stories

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17. This was a determined effort on his part to save his job and medical clearance---all because of his and Monica’s harmless sexual predilections and idiosyncrasies

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18. Osbairne senior wasn’t a fool; he knew Lance’s tastes, understood and even shared certain of his predilections, and was mildly amused by what he knew of his son’s recent development

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19. definitely on his guard lest his own predilections or dislikes should in any

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20. This supper is their last rendezvous with Jesus, and even in such a solemn setting, under the leadership of Judas the apostles are led once more to give way to their old predilection for honor, preference, and personal exaltation

21. knew of his predilection for the London Times puzzle page

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22. predilection for pranks than its politically powerful alumni

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23. with people who shared the same predilection for computers,

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24. predilection toward greed and selfishness, is coping in a city

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25. He thought that they were just afraid of his predilection for the cane which he used on the hands of girls and bums of boys with gay abandon

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26. protectionism to a decaying company with a predilection for bankruptcy

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27. I know that my predilection to help and protect innocent humans may be anathema to most in the Abyss, but I believe that I could do just that while at the same time sending you dirty souls deserving of your handling

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28. That we hold either explanation as a full and only truth speaks not to our understanding, but our predilection toward

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29. Given Garcia’s predilection for holodecks, risky activities, and beautiful women, why not make him involved in the original incident? What makes the scene difficult is the holodeck safety protocols, and having two people diving from the cliffs

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30. Most of what we consider to be “ourselves” – that is, the thoughts, feelings and perceptions which occupy our conscious minds most of the time we are awake; our sense that there is a continuing “us” there – is just a collection of habits and predilections learned from our parents and society

31. “No, he’s clearly not insane, but one could say that his predilection towards

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32. Jacques wondered about the King’s predilection with Chinese food given his Zulu heritage

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33. New trends in the philosophy of science have questioned some of the scientistic assumptions of positivism, namely: there is an external world that can be fully explained in scientific language; that language stands in a one-to-one relationship to the facts; the facts can be fully discovered by observation and experiment; scientific observation and experiments are based upon what our senses can reveal, scientific theories are built up by the accumulation of more data; these theories are objective and not reliant on personal predilections; and the scientific knowledge that results is proven knowledge of the world as it objectively is

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34. God and the innumerable predilections of his mind are suffused with his

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35. Men with devilish predilections are ignorant both of that which is

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36. Is he tainted before this union ? In Patanjali’s view the Soul is earlier the same as the predilection of the man who embodies

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37. differently according to their own individual predilections

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38. with designed consciousness and encoded predilections to integrate with and satisfy your needs, wants, or desires become possible? How will it effect love and its interpretations and practices, when others have also become accustomed to having an amenable, compliant and personally designed self-fulfilling relationship with a robotic lover, father, mother, sister, any other? When one has the means to create the other in our image of desired perfection, how much care for the masses of imperfect others – humans without means to create a perfect and insular utopia – will one desire, need, fear, protect themselves from?

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39. “From the communal predilections of the heartmind, the basis for the construction of love emerges – a conceptualized ethic derived from one's willed sense of a community of caring

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40. Was it our lack of foresight that blinded us to our poisoning of our waters, or was it Eartheart, striving to fight off humanity the infection, that utilized our predilection for over-consumption, whording, and monergy – the very traits that are destroying her – to poison ourselves?

41. Getting us addicted to our own predilection of liking to engage in risky and extreme behavior, e

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42. How our cultures and states interface creates the predilections of IT's ethical character

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43. “The danger of anchoring war to play is that it anchors cooperative and communal imagination to the appetites and predilections of the reptilian brain

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44. Harald cast his mind around the extended Knowles family and identified Henry as an unpleasant young man with a predilection for greyhounds and gambling

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45. Some would think I am at fault; in fact, you are all aware that the woman bears the burden of marriage separation in our society mainly because of cultural norms that discourages the black woman washing ones dirty predilections in the public, unlike the white women

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46. For instance: human slavery is merely the universal predilection of all humans to use other animals including humans only as tools

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47. Their worst appetites were fed, their worst predilections for violence were fostered and encouraged

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48. The Egyptian predilection for worshipping half-animal, half-human entities… or whole living animals like cats… is well known

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49. � However, when we become and remain aware of that predilection of perception, it allows us better access to what we actually observe

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50. it was primarily because of Mengele's predilection for twins in his lifetime, that it chose to

51. Finally, if the pharmacy, open to all comers, was the spot where he displayed his pride, the Capharnaum was the refuge where, egoistically concentrating himself, Homais delighted in the exercise of his predilections, so that Justin's thoughtlessness seemed to him a monstrous piece of irreverence, and, redder than the currants, he repeated—

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52. To please her, as if she were still living, he adopted her predilections, her ideas; he bought patent leather boots and took to wearing white cravats

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53. Why should not such a predilection be encouraged! That she was of a blood purer and richer than the rest of her nation, any eye might have seen; that she was equal to the dangers and daring of a life in the woods, her conduct had proved; and now, they added, the "wise one of the earth" had transplanted her to a place where she would find congenial spirits, and might be forever happy

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54. Gwen always had good stories, many of which concerned the illicit predilections of the town’s citizens

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55. He was of the same opinion; and we both agreed it was a rank exuberance of liberty, that the commonality should be exposed to the risk of being inoculated with anarchy and confusion, from what he, in his learned manner, judiciously called the predilections of amateur pretension

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56. of such manifest predilections

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57. 'You have a predilection for good sailors?'

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58. But certain cows will show a fondness for a particular pair of hands, sometimes carrying this predilection so far as to refuse to stand at all except to their favourite, the pail of a stranger being unceremoniously kicked over

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59. Of the many Times my Maidenhead was taken, the Great Figures of the Day who enter’d the Brothel (only to enter my Bow’r of Bliss), and of their curious Predilections and Practices betwixt the Bed-Clothes, I shall have to tell in a separate Chapter

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60. William Hogarth and Master John Cleland; their opposing Views of her Character, their Predilections both in Life and Art; together with our Heroine’s Motives in composing this True and Compleat History of her exotick and adventurous Life

61. Given LBO sponsors’ predilection toward maximizing net present values for themselves and their LPs it would appear as if the LBO phenomenon contributes little, or nothing, to either growing a target company or making it more creditworthy

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62. used to have a predilection for Bacchus

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63. A predilection of mine that has caused problems at times is to favor stories or companies that are complicated or esoteric

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64. For passe I had always had a sort of predilection, yet I lost my stake upon it

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65. He shows decided bacchanalian predilections at one time, and at another is tearful and sensitive, but at any moment he is liable to paroxysms of such rage that I assure you, prince, I am quite alarmed

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66. But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic

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67. And, on his part, he was convinced that I could not exist outside of the life of the world, that a home in the country did not suit me at all, and that he must resign himself to this unhappy predilection

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68. He had taken a “predilection” to her

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69. "The merchant was already in ecstasy," slightly smiling, said Kitaeva, "and he continued to drink and treat himself, but as he was short of money he sent to his room this same Liubasha, for whom he acquired a predilection," she said, looking at Maslova

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70. “He used to have a predilection for Bacchus

71. I do feel, sir, that we should enter upon the discussion of this question divested of all the prejudices and passion of party—no less than all foreign predilections and animosities—with clean hearts, sir; yes, hearts seven times purified, to prepare them for the discharge of the sacred, the holy duties of this awful crisis

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72. I was on one of the carronades, busy with the sun's lower limb, bringing it into contact with the horizon, when the boy's lower limbs brought him into contact with the baboon, who, having, as well as the boy, a strong predilection for bread-and-butter, and a stronger arm to take it withal, thought proper to help himself to that to which the boy had already been helped

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73. The Judiciary would have been appealed to; and, from the known opinions and predilections of the judges then composing it, they would have pronounced the act of incorporation, as in the nature of a contract, beyond the repealing power of any succeeding Legislature

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74. President, what is the real cause of those failures? They are confined principally to New York, and may be attributed to the following causes: It is natural for men born in Great Britain to entertain predilections favorable to a commerce with that country, their connections, as well commercial as of family, are there; their credit is there; and, from those causes, the house which has failed, and carried so many others with it in its fall, has probably directed the principal part of its commerce to England; they have, no doubt, shipped cotton and tobacco, the trade in which being in a great measure confined to Great Britain, the natural consequence has been, that the markets of England were completely glutted; tobacco, except the very fine Virginia, scarcely paid the charges of freight and commission, and the loss on cotton must have been nearly fifty per cent

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75. Judging therefore, of the feelings of others, by my own, I cannot doubt that many influential French inhabitants of New Orleans entertain a predilection for the country which gave them birth

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76. Many admired her, but that many were not included in the general public, that has no pronounced predilection for club men or club women

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77. It takes a generation to correct evil tendencies and predilections, and the fruits of a systematic course of instruction do not appear at once

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78. As my husband and Brother Pope had both their special appointments elsewhere to fill, it fell to my lot, much against my predilections, to close the whole series of meetings by my third and last temperance lecture

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