bred-in-the-bone

• “The abiding, bred-in-the-bone ignorance of posh people about ordinary people – how we live, think, feel.”

  The Guardian: How to learn to live with Tories

• “Author Satoshi Kanazawa, an “evolutionary psychologist,” then went on to draw some incendiary and fanciful conclusions from his findings: conservatism, he explained, is a very human predisposition based on self-interest—a bred-in-the-bone inclination to care about family and friends rather than the wider world that is genetically unrelated to us.”

  Charlie Gillis

• “She was religious, and went to Mass on Sundays; her bred-in-the-bone politeness prevented her from comment the numerous times I had gone off on anti-religion rants.”

  Simon & Schuster: Knowing Jesse

• “Three of the projects he's developing, including one about Oscar Levant and a movie of the classic Hollywood novel "What Makes Sammy Run?", return to his favorite, bred-in-the-bone subject.”

  Newsweek: Days of 'Thunder'

• “The hatred of the plaintiffs bar is a bred-in-the-bone attitude among Republicans, in the boardroom and on Main Street.”

  Newsweek: Report From La: Rebranding The Political Parties

• “And he stuck with the lesson like a burr, that bred-in-the-bone Kendrick stubbornness keeping him at it even when he was close to tears of sheer frustration.”

  Wild Blood

• “Theodore Roosevelt was a thoroughgoing, bred-in-the-bone individualist, but not as the term is ordinarily understood.”

  Theodore Roosevelt and His Times

• “And this was valuable to him in preparing him to command under-officers in whom a rigorous uniformity of training could not obliterate bred-in-the-bone differences.”

  Foch the Man

• “To the bred-in-the-bone rancher the mention of blackleg, that deadly contagious and most fatal of cattle diseases, is almost as startling as bubonic plague would be to the average human.”

  Shoe-Bar Stratton

• “With such bred-in-the-bone sense of time as the artist commands, it is little wonder he takes no great interest in mechanical time-beating.”

  Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers

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