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When perceived in terms of his proclivity for avoiding social interaction and for his loss, negligence, and failure at roles which he had once ascribed to himself artist, womanizer, lecturer and that most ephemeral role of paternal ersatz who sometimes changed diapers so Noppawan could sleep he, a god was relegated to an irrelevance equivalent to nothing.
"If an eminent physician should develop a proclivity For singing on the operatic stage, He will find that though his patients may apparently forgive it, he Will temporal'ly cease to be the rage, And the lawyer who depreciates his logical ability And covets a poetical renown, Will discover on his Circuit that the Curse of Versatility Has limited the office of his gown.
He had gathered from the looks and words of the following remnants of the crowd that she had been involved in some street-quarrel trying to atone it no doubt, or to separate the combatants. For a woman of her refinement, she had the strangest proclivity for low company! Hester was silent, thinking how to begin her communication about Cornelius.
"Do you tell me that folks marry and give in marriage within this dreadful place?" "Now and then, sir; and in the liberties and purlieus thereof with a proclivity that would astonish you; which, since I cannot hinder it, I sanctify. My name is Figg, sir Jonathan Figg; and my office, Chaplain of the Fleet."
Rich gleanings of law-terms might, therefore, be expected from the plays written by these dramatists; yet it may safely be asserted, that from Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays at least twice as many passages marked by legal phraseology might be produced, as from the fifty-four written by Beaumont and Fletcher, together or alone! a fact the great significance of which is heightened by another, that it is only the vocabulary of the law to the use of which Shakespeare exhibits this proclivity.
He could have detoured to an area along a different stretch of road and walked elsewhere where there were not these signs of warning were it not for his proclivity to continue walking on such a narrow sidewalk in which a stumbling foot could cost him his life.
If the gentleman wishes to increase his stores of party abuse and frothy violence, if he has a determined proclivity to such pursuits, there are treasures of that sort south of the Potomac, much to his taste, yet untouched. I shall not touch them. The parties which divided the country at the commencement of the late war were violent.
Fly and her brother shared a collection of birds' eggs, and were so excited about robbing the ousels of a single egg, that Gillian hoped that Fergus would not catch the infection and abandon minerals for eggs, which would be ever so much worse -only a degree better than butterflies, towards which Wilfred showed a certain proclivity.
Some also would pass on to study for the profession of medicine through more special work in Chemistry and Physiology, and some with a proclivity for drawing and design would become architects, designers of appliances, and the like.
When the mind is strong and vigorous, this peculiar proclivity is generally well-marked to the inquiring observer in very early life.
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