Natural dispositions

Usage examples of tendencies.

As Henri Bergson put it, the universe shows two tendencies, a "reality which is making itself in a reality which is unmaking itself.

In short, the world is filled with tendencies and intentions which are [centered on] our own.

All of these successive tendencies are reflected in the voluminous literature, official and unofficial, which has already grown up round the Home Guard.

Some of the tendencies I mention may seem to matter very little at present, but they do I think tell one something about possible future developments.

There were other literary tendencies at work, there were various Irish writers, for instance, and in a quite different vein, much nearer to our own time, there was the American novelist Henry James, but the main stream was the one I've indicated.

It would seem that Orwell himself shows to a surprising degree the overlapping of left-wing, pacifist and reactionary tendencies of which he accuses others!

But the same tendencies, together with a sort of raggedness which is no doubt intentional, weaken his epigrams and polemical poems.

Later these tendencies took clearer shape and led him to "the exultant acceptance of authoritarianism as the only solution.

Before trying to predict the consequences of this, let me sketch out the main tendencies of this year as I see them.

Whether any leader or party capable of giving a voice to these tendencies will arise even when Hitler is gone and Europe is in turmoil, I do not know.

There have been further signs of the growth of a left-wing faction in the Church of England, which has had tendencies in this direction for some years past.

It seems unlikely that these tendencies will be checked unless it again becomes normal to read verse aloud, and it is difficult to see how this can be brought about except by using the radio as a medium.

But I may go farther, and maintain that the course of history, and the tendencies of progressive human society, afford not only no presumption in favour of this system of inequality of rights, but a strong one against it.

This entire discrepancy between one social fact and all those which accompany it, and the radical opposition between its nature and the progressive movement which is the boast of the modern world, and which has successively swept away everything else of an analogous character, surely affords, to a conscientious observer of human tendencies, serious matter for reflection.

Mere feminine blandishments, though of great effect in individual instances, have very little effect in modifying the general tendencies of the situation.