inborn tendency
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An inborn tendency to scepticism did not prevent him from yielding to an influence which originally was farther removed from the inclinations of his soul than the vulgar bustle of everyday life.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
Bullying as an original tendency seems to add nothing to the possibilities of development, but every other inborn tendency has its value.
From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton
At last she felt his inborn tendency; the early religious background which influenced his temperament.
From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart
From the foregoing paragraph, the logical conclusion would be that there is no instinct or inborn tendency that is primarily and distinctly moral as over against those that are social.
From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton
In no way was Norman's luck superior to most men's more splendidly than in that his inborn tendency to arrogant and extravagant desires was matched by an inborn capacity to get the necessary money.
From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham
