tendencies

Perhaps I should be more understanding, now that my own hoarding tendencies are flaring up.

There was a chance that he could have been arrested as well for his Jacobin tendencies.

All these measures were taken to halt the blood-sucking tendencies of the recently deceased.

The slasher film series Friday the 13th is well known for its homicidal tendencies.

The large-scale structure of the Universe is the result of a conflict between two tendencies.

Home-sickness and yearning effaced all other impressions, and destroyed all his earlier tendencies, desires, and thoughts.

And the glorious truth of God, in contrast with it in its character and tendencies, should be displayed.

But in the day of effectual calling, a complete change is produced upon the moral tendencies of the soul.

Between the tendencies of his nature, and the demands of the Divine law, there is no correspondence.

Exemplary punishment is to be visited upon me for "precocious godlessness, dangerous tendencies, and insubordination."