tendency

Our tendency to ghettoize drama — along racial or immigrant lines — reflects the failure to understand our collective story.

“We are probably looking at a weak La Niña, but there have been some studies that have found that second-year La Niñas do have a tendency to enhance already existing drought,” she said.

Nor was the tendency to justify slavery on racial grounds any less widespread among elite Muslims than it became among plantation owners in the American South.

There is a tendency to make economic tales resemble morality plays, where excess and pride lead ineluctably to poverty and humiliation.

It is the last missing tomb of known descendants of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, a time when the empire’s imperialist tendencies flourished.