Ices are served in frilled baskets of paper, which have a tendency to dissolve and amalgamate with the sweet.
It is wonderful, as Sir John remarks, how the conquering streams of tendency manifest themselves even in an affair like this.
My only satisfactory mode of explaining the matter and comforting myself for this omission was in Beethoven's tendency to deafness, for I had seen Artaria speaking close to his ear.
I was a little sorry, the next moment, that I'd harped still again on an act which must have become painful for him to remember, since I could see his face work and his eye betray a tendency to evade mine.
Pee-Wee is a bit of a stoic, while his sister shows a tendency to prove a bit of a squealer.
Struthers, however, was quite snappy for the rest of the morning, having apparently construed my innocent pantomime as a burlesque of her tendency to sniffle a little.
I think you English people," I heard him telling her a little later, "have a tendency to carry moderation to excess.
It was, I found, both a pleasant and a puzzling bit of information, and my earlier regrets at wasting time that I could ill spare betrayed a tendency to evaporate.
In religious matters he, following his father's example, displayed a tendency towards the unfashionable doctrines of the Shiahs.
But in a deeper sense this tendency can be of no true or lasting value if it cannot be made to subserve the biological and spiritual development of the human organism, individual and collective.
Yet there is too great a tendencyamong the thinkers of this school, to restrict their ideas of sex to its expression as a purely procreative function.
The tendency of the human elements, under present conditions, is constantly downward.
He is fighting against our tendency to take the work of art as a mere copy or reminder of something already in our heads, or at the best as a suggestion of some idea as little removed as possible from the familiar.
The one is the power of habit:--the tendency to continue to do things in the same way; the other is the possibility of mental and moral deterioration.
But the tendency of all living talk draws it back and back into the common focus of humanity.
But the tendency to inequality, checking real progress from the first, increased as the Roman civilization extended.
Her systems have all the unfortunate tendency of setting propriety at nought; and a better acquaintance with the world is what I look forward to as her greatest possible advantage.
Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity.
Nor is this strange, when we reflect that the reading of even a standard medical work has a tendency to excite belief in the reader that he is afflicted with the malady whose grim description he is perusing.
It was merely the selective tendency of a fresh and buoyant mind, rather vigorous than contemplative, and in which the desire for a special field of action is but the symptom of health.
A like tendency shows itself also in the sphere of dentistry; the Arabians, even more than their Greek and Roman predecessors, were reluctant to extract teeth, and employed all possible means, in order to avoid the operation.
The tendency towards the perpetuation of the short nectary is therefore stopped, while that of the longer nectary is insured.
Footnote 1: The tendency to portraiture, in early Florentine and German art, is observable from an early period.
This problem is the tendency in organic beings descended from the same stock to diverge in character as they become modified.
In religion there is a tendency to lose sight of morality, to separate goodness from the love of truth, to worship God without attempting to know him.
Many coincidences which occur in them are unconscious, seeming to show a natural tendency in the human mind towards certain ideas and forms of thought.
One more feature of the Eristic rather than of the Sophist is the tendency of the troublesome animal to run away into the darkness of Not-being.
That Antisthenes wrote a book called 'Physicus,' is hardly a sufficient reason for describing them as skilful in physics, which appear to have been very alien to the tendency of the Cynics.
Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas.
This problem is the tendency in organic beings descended from the same stock to diverge in character as they become, modified.
Yet in many of these creatures there seems to be no inherent tendency to avoid white, for directly they are domesticated white varieties arise, and appear to thrive as well as others.
In Sir Henry's opinion the shell-shock has aggravated a tendencyto the disease.
It would probably aggravate a tendency to epilepsy, by lowering the general health.
A latent tendency to it may exist for years without those nearest and dearest to the sufferer suspecting it, so Sir Henry says.
When a man has periodical attacks of petit mal, would it not be possible, by observation of him between the attacks, or when he was suffering from the attacks, to tell whether he had a tendency to them?
It is for that very reason that we should guard ourselves against the tendency to accept the circumstantial evidence against him as proof of his guilt, instead of examining all the facts with an open mind.
Hence, in depending upon corn sirup alone, the tendency is to use more sugar than is advisable so as to satisfy our taste for sweets.
When the appetite is partially appeased, there is less tendency to eat large quantities of sweet foods.
Let us, therefore, boil all the water we drink and diminish the tendency to sickness in that way.
In these "Frederick" Sonatas there is as yet no tendency to enharmonic and other surprise modulation such as Bach afterwards displayed.
He must have admired them, but he may have been afraid of the freedom of form which they displayed, and of their tendency to programme-music; and perhaps he did not speak of them to his sons, lest they should be led astray.
She had been excessively pretty, but had rather lost her looks after a bad illness, and her worst affliction was now a tendency to scragginess, cleverly concealed where the chest was no longer visible.
The whole tendencyof our modern activities is against its precepts.
The tendency is toward prose in comedy and poetry in tragedy, though in the same play both prose and poetry are sometimes used.
Do you often see similar abbreviations in what is known as "good literature," except as they are found in conversation, where the tendency is always to use abbreviated forms and familiar terms?
There is among some an unfortunate tendency to go too much to books for material and to seize too quickly any suggestion that leads in that direction.
If we hear constantly repeated at frequent and regular intervals any noise, there is a tendency to group these separate sounds and measure them off regularly.
The poet takes advantage of this rhythmical tendency of nature and by using accented syllables at regular intervals compels us to recognize the swing of his lines.
In the second class of motives we have enumerated there is a strong tendency to an important improvement in meeting the terrestrial necessities of humanity.
The question was often debated whether such a life as was led in Association would have a tendency to favor early marriages or not, but like a great many other questions of importance, it was debated without settlement.
There is always a tendencyto deify the great, and just in proportion as time advances does this tendency increase.
Now, from this tendency has arisen the whole system of Romish infallibility.
Could you have a stronger proof that it is the tendency of human nature, even when it boasts its own reason, to lean on other men for truth?
This tendency to substitute ritual for principle may be daily seen in every society.
Here, then, is the naturaltendency of the natural heart—a tendency in direct opposition to Christianity.
Out of this tendencyhas sprung up the whole system of Romish righteousness.
This explains why people of rheumatic tendencycannot take acid fruit.
Sidenote: Constipation must be overcome in cases of emaciation] It must be remembered that milk has a constipatingtendency when taken in ordinary quantities--from one to two glasses at a meal.
Sidenote: Injurious effects of congested waste matter] While the tendency of Nature is to maintain normality by casting the debris out of the body, she demands that we obey the laws of motion and oxidation.
The application of an ice-bag will sometimes afford much relief, and has a tendencyto reduce the inflammatory process.
The tendency of a perfectly normal body, after it passes the forty-fifth year, is to become muscular, or what is termed "thin.
This condition is more likely to occur among those whose lungs are weakened and who have a tendency toward consumption.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tendency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
