inborn tendency
Example Sentences
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Say, rather, that the species of necessity which consists in character and inborn tendency is stronger than any resolution to run counter to it.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
The neuropath is the individual with an inborn tendency to the neurosis.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter
These are emotions common to all members of the human race, and their expression is an inborn tendency.
From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle
I know it is with certain human beings as with horses, some trick of the blood they have, some inborn tendency; the more their wants are satisfied, the more their wantonness will out.
From Hiero by Henry Graham Dakyns
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 David Graham Phillips
