I had been born with no organic, chemical
predisposition toward alcohol.
His natural inclination to blame, hitherto kept entirely in abeyance toward his father by the
predisposition to think him always right, simply on the ground that he was Tom Tulliver's father, was turned into this new channel by his mother's plaints; and with his indignation against Wakem there began to mingle some indignation of another sort.
In some, it has been too evident from their own publications, that they have scanned the proposed Constitution, not only with a
predisposition to censure, but with a predetermination to condemn; as the language held by others betrays an opposite predetermination or bias, which must render their opinions also of little moment in the question.
Old Maule's prophecy was probably founded on a knowledge of this physical
predisposition in the Pyncheon race.
This young man terrifies me, my lord; there lies in him a sanguinary
predisposition."
Marlow who was lanky, loose, quietly composed in varied shades of brown robbed of every vestige of gloss, had a narrow, veiled glance, the neutral bearing and the secret irritability which go together with a
predisposition to congestion of the liver.
Mrs Verloc's mother's complexion had become yellow by the effect of age and from a natural
predisposition to biliousness, favoured by the trials of a difficult and worried existence, first as wife, then as widow.
Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater
predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before; the cause of which malady was briefly this.
Besides, I am a woman, and that should in itself fully account for my
predisposition toward superstition.
In spite of their
predisposition to obedience very many of them, through a playfulness of nature, sometimes vouchsafed even to the cow, like to imagine themselves advanced people, 'destroyers,' and to push themselves into the 'new movement,' and this quite sincerely.
He was intensely moved by the grandeur of the struggle for life, and the ethical rule which it suggested seemed to fit in with his
predispositions. He said to himself that might was right.
A subset of 67,305 participants was included in analyses assessing genetic
predisposition and BMI.