inclination

Example Sentences

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Both authors serve their readers well by resisting any inclination to hagiography, all the more impressive in Mr. Streitfeld’s case given his closeness to his subject.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Still, he didn’t return to face his accusers, and the UAE appeared to have little inclination to extradite him, said Ahmad Hadi, 48, a physician who is Ashaal’s brother-in-law.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

While the natural inclination is to draw comparisons to the 1970s – the Yom Kippur war of 1973 and the Iranian revolution of 1979 – the strategists say they don’t quite fit.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

On this week’s Amicus podcast, he explained to Dahlia Lithwick that the inclination to fetishize that which can be justified legally has a way of opening the door to atrocities that cannot be tolerated.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

She was a tranquil soul who entertained herself, studied hard, played with her dolls, and showed not the slightest inclination for her mother’s spiritualism or her father’s fits of rage.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende