proneness

• “So the study then, you know, the 800 members of the clergy -- nuns, priests, brothers -- were studied, and they were specifically asked about stress, stress being defined as a proneness to depression and anxiety.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2003

• “The generalisations of philosophy go to improve our methods so that we may have greater proneness for sense of delight and greater possibility for sense delight.”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to ad just to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech

• “Social network analysis of developer contributions to predict software quality, dependency structure and fault proneness of individual software components are just some of the pieces of the immensely complex puzzle.”

  The Huffington Post: Sramana Mitra: Free Apps, Ad-Supported Business Models are Dangerous!

• “But Silas chose the factual scheme of death, a choice given to the alternately calming and brutal representations of death relative to the viewer's proneness to emotional and aesthetic delicacy.”

  The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas

• “And I know others, others in the SAME FAMILY, who are convinced that those spankings (from the same adults) made a significant dent in their self-esteem, ability to trust, proneness to shame, and so on.”

  A Spanking A Day Keeps Failure Away? | Her Bad Mother

• “In a fascinating long-term study, Ms. Tangney and Ms. Dearing assessed shame-proneness in 380 fifth-graders and then followed up years later.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What a Shame That Guilt Got a Bad Name

• “They also exhibited general irritability and proneness to distress, and had difficulty controlling their negative responses.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “Mollie, I do have some very happy times indeed, but I have to deplore my exceeding sinfulness, my proneness to go astray and it keeps me very low very humble in God's presence, though not half as much as it ought.”

  Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,March 31, 1857

• “The limitations of our perception, our proneness to deception and even self-deception, have also come to light as psychology and other fields have made advances.”

  Can Protestants be orthodox?

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