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.

The predilection of the convicts for this game was noted as early as 1798 by New South Wales's first Judge Advocate, as well as the lack of skill involved and the large losses.

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 Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote in 2003 about Mommsen ’ s functionalist understanding of the Third Reich that :" In this reading, ideology is recognized and then dismissed as irrelevant ; the suffering of the victims is readily acknowledged and then omitted as having nothing to tell us about the mechanics of genocide ; and individual perpetrators from Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heyrdrich to the lowliest SS man are shoved out of the historical picture as contemptible, but ultimately unimportant pawns in the larger scheme of a “ polycratic state ” whose predilection for “ cumulative radicalization ” was a function of its structure rather the product of intentional planning or self-proclaimed will ”

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.

In his 1673 publication, Dissertation on the Search for Truth, he brought to light people's psychological predilection for certainties.

Philo intended to show the fearful punishment meted out by God to the persecutors of the Jews ( on Philo's predilection for similar discussions see Siegfried, " Philo von Alexandria ," p. 157 ).

Alternatively, a young man or woman who exhibited a predilection or power that made them stand out might be trained by an experienced mentor.

Phenomena also showed Argento's predilection for using new technology, as evidenced by the film's several prowling Steadicam shots.

That the reference is to Lolita rather than directly to Carmen is suggested by Corwin's mixed feelings about Dara's apparent age while she is seducing him, and the creation of a literary reference with three degrees of parentage is consistent with Zelazny's occasional predilection for subtle literary stunts.

In keeping with the dynamic nature of Celtic decor which is characterized by a strong predilection for curvilinear lines, the circles often leave an opening, conveying the impression of the interlocked leaves swirling endlessly around their own axis.

The British upper classes are traditionally fond of giving multiple middle names, deriving from the Germanic aristocracy's predilection for this, for the obvious reason that the British aristocracy is now of Germanic origin: for example, Prince William ( William Arthur Philip Louis ), Prince Harry ( Henry Charles Albert David ), The Princess Royal ( Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise ), and Prince Charles ( Charles Philip Arthur George ; flubbed by Diana during their wedding as “ Philip Charles Arthur George ”).

By forfeiting identification with the establishment and building of the State of Israel, symbolised by a predilection for military service and by the settling of the land of Israel, Labor lost its most important asset.

" Callicratidas, " far from being effeminised by his sexual predilection for boys ... Callicratidas's inclination renders him hypervirile ... Callicratidas's sexual desire for boys, then, makes him more of a man ; it does not weaken or subvert his male gender identity but rather consolidates it.

His predilection for decoratively punched gilded backgrounds is one of the marks of the conservative taste, in part imposed by his patrons.

The band were described by The Scotsman as " a seedy 1970s porn baron and his silent but violent henchman playing gutter-trawling, kerb-crawling blues punk with skyscraping vocals and a predilection for the occasional Eddie Van Halen guitar ' lick '", also being described as " testosterone-fuelled bluesy punk ".

Titus Scroad, played by R. Lee Ermey is an eccentric movie director with a predilection for hydro-colonic therapy.

One of the finest Byzantine works produced in Asia, and one of the earliest Christian manuscripts with large miniatures, it is distinguished by the miniaturist's predilection for bright colours, movement, drama, and expressionism.