The bias of his mind was to sculpture, and the facilities afforded for the gratification of this predilection in the workshop of his grandfather were eagerly improved.

Guinea-Bissau's transition back to democracy has been complicated by a crippled economy devastated by civil war and the military's predilection for governmental meddling.

More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).

Having a predilection for self-deprecating parody, he once appeared in an advertisement for Kit Kat chocolate bars, miming a piece of chamber music on the violin, in an upper-class tea-room, and he also appeared in an ad for Walkers where he gets his crisps stolen.

An intellectual predilection for the hard, gruesome, evil, problematic aspect of existence, prompted by well-being, by overflowing health, by the fullness of existence?

It was the chance for personal distinction that led Scott to apply for the Discovery command, rather than any predilection for polar exploration.

A more recent example is the so-called Satanic ritual abuse scare of the 1980s — beginning with the memoir Michelle Remembers — which depicts Satanism as a vast ( and unproven ) conspiracy of elites with a predilection for child abuse and human sacrifice.

As this tendency coincides with the period that he was less popular among the wealthy, some historians have suggested that a reason for his predilection for black and white pigment was the low price of these colors as compared with the costly lakes and carmines.

Such enhanced equipment is needed due to the chub's predilection for taking cover in underwater snags.

Deburau seems to have had a predilection for " realistic " pantomime — a predilection that, as we will see, led eventually to calls for Pierrot's expulsion from it.

In 1683, Thomas Sydenham, an English physician, described its occurrence in the early hours of the morning, and its predilection for older males:

Castilian monarchs showed a predilection for the center of the peninsula, with abundant forests and game.

What is more, they had a predilection for certain casts of characters and settings, with the secluded English country house at the top of the list.

Because of Segovia's predilection for altering the musical content of his editions to reflect his interpretive preferences, many of today's guitarists prefer to examine the original manuscripts, or newer publications based on the original manuscripts in order to compare them with Segovia's published versions, so as to accept or reject Segovia's editorial decisions.

One ’ s sexual orientation is a “ predilection for homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality ”.

President Eisenhower's predilection for the military staff system, however, led to development of the NSC along those lines.

The artist provided another clue when he described his predilection " to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them ", and was in any case notoriously reluctant to consider a painting complete.

His predilection for Plato and other pagan ( often Neoplatonic ) philosophers led to doubts about the orthodoxy of his faith among some of his contemporaries, and at one point he was forced to make a public profession of faith in his defense.

Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, from complications arising from oesophageal cancer, a disease that he acknowledged was likely due to his lifelong predilection for smoking and drinking.

Of his mathematical inclinations at this early period he later wrote, “ Meine eigene Vorliebe zur Mathematik zeigte sich erst im sechzehnten Lebensjahr, während vorher von irgendeiner Anlage dazu überhaupt nicht die Rede sein konnte .” (“ My own predilection for mathematics manifested itself only in my sixteenth year ; before that, one could certainly not speak of any particular aptitude for it .”) His grade in French for 1912 was actually “ nicht genügend ” ( unsatisfactory ).

Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that " the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed ; it was a moral imperative.

According to Thompson's obituary of Acosta, titled " Fear and Loathing in the Graveyard of the Weird: The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat ," Acosta was a powerful attorney and preacher but suffered from an addiction to amphetamines, as well as a predilection for LSD.

Revealing a vein of idealism, his early predilection was left of centre.

Critical coverage of Greene, which offered extensive coverage of his predilection for rewriting pop-culture press releases, was also featured in Spy magazine in a December, 1988 article by Magda Krance, " You Wouldn't Want to Be Bob Greene ".

Blanqui's predilection for violence was illustrated in 1870 by two unsuccessful armed demonstrations: one on 12 January at the funeral of Victor Noir, the journalist shot by Pierre Bonaparte ; the other on 14 August, when he led an attempt to seize some guns from a barracks.

His predilection for the stage was cultivated in amateur theatricals, and on 21 November 1787 he made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide in Voltaire's Mahomet.

In Florence there was a predilection for having many small thin elegant jets of water, even when there was enough water to have a large geyser.

One of the speculations about Khalid bin Abdulaziz's selection as crown prince was his lack of predilection for politics.

Outside of the monasteries, monks were considered to have a particular predilection for male prostitutes, which was the subject of much ribald humor.

He also noted that Janowski was sometimes unpopular with his colleagues because of his predilection for doggedly playing on even in an obviously lost position, hoping his opponent might blunder.

" Richardsonian Romanesque ", unlike Victorian revival styles like Neo-Gothic, was a highly personal synthesis of the Beaux-Arts predilection for clear and legible plans, with the heavy massing that was favored by the pro-medievalists.

The modest dimensions of the structure and its lack of rich decoration are at first sight puzzling in light of Hitler's predilection for gigantic dimensions, but in this case the focal point of the building was the Führer's sarcophagus, which was not to be dwarfed by dimension out of all proportion to the size of the sarcophagus itself.

The band were also noted ( and occasionally ridiculed ) for their early image which consisted of uniformly crimped hair and a predilection for sporting shorts and band / skateboard T-shirts.

He showed an early predilection for solitary and gloomy places and the making of verses, for which he had no other model than hymnals.

From an early age, Taylor had shown a predilection for theatre and performed dramas with a number of children in a loft over a brewer's stable.

Born in Padua at night, he received classical Jewish and Italian educations, showing a predilection for literature at a very early age.

His early career included boxing and guitar, and as he cites on the sleeve of his 1981 Columbia album, his parents hoped he would outgrow his predilection for both.

However, scholar Holger Briel argues that " only in a society that already has a predilection for monsters and is used to interacting with octopods such images might arise ," citing Hokusai's print an early exemplar of such a tradition.

John Frith was unique among the reformers of the early Tudor period in his predilection for polemics and the very weapons of controversy, many of which he fashioned from the figures of rhetoric.

His early predilection was for the sciences, and in 1882-1883 he took selected courses in chemistry and geology at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Sawrey learnt drawing as a child from his father, and showing an early predilection for art, he was sent to London at the age of fourteen, to study under Samuel Scott, the marine painter, in Covent Garden.