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Many of these aesthetic characteristics come with congenital health problems, such as difficulty breathing or being prone to spinal injuries.
But some are left dry, prone to dangerous build-ups of pressure.
Now, it's no secret that teens ages 13 to 18 are more prone to risk-taking than children or adults, but what makes them so daring?
Less viscous substances like water or air are more prone to inertia, which creates instabilities that develop into turbulence.
And the Holocaust culture that we have in this country makes Americans, sort of, more prone to, I think, want to bring Never Again to life.
We think of bacteria as sources of infection, but bacteria themselves are also prone to being infected, in particular, by viruses.
Just like net pens, these ponds are prone to spreading pollution and disease.
Unlike many other species, humans are prone to tailor their behavior in the presence of others to garner approval.
Paper processes are also slower and more prone to errors.
But as a result now, he is prone to these schizophrenic episodes, the worst of which can manifest themselves as him exploding and then disappearing for days, wandering the streets of Skid Row, exposed to its horrors, with the torment of his own mind unleashed upon him.
We might just have to accept the fact that we're error prone and try to design things around it.
It's bushfelt region, which is dry and prone to a lot of fires, as so what these trees have done is, if you can imagine that this is the crown of the tree, and that this is ground level, imagine that the whole thing, that whole bulk of the tree, migrated underground, and you just have those leaves peeping up above the surface.
I'm not prone to ranting and my expectations were low to start with, but how did this seem like a good idea?
She is a free spirit and prone to outbursts so the rest of the village and her family decide she should be sent to Milan and see a doctor.
Between irrelevancies, platitudes (to which the actors from the films are particularly prone), and acting out (by fans making the most--if not the best--of their one shot at fame), I could glean little of the special appeal of LOTR, the special emotional responses it evokes, and the range of the special creative forms those responses can take.
Some famous stories are prone to being moved to another epoch and, as such, becoming an embarrassing TV-movie.
Adam Beach plays a tribal policeman who is a little bit accident prone and Wes Studi is the stoic consummately professional detective.
A mature, subtle script that suggests and occasionally brings into dramatic focus the underlying tensions is well served by perfect performances (apart from the odd inappropriate smiling that Keira Knightley is prone to, though perhaps under direction this time as the other characters themselves often mention it).
Your standard-issue motley assortment of intrepid boneheads -- hectoring hard-nosed mine boss, cute, but insipid blonde babe, feisty lady geologist, boozy, inexplicably Aussie-accented (!) seasoned old mine hand, charmless doofus, hunky, jolly guy, and, arguably the most annoying character of the uniformly irritating bunch, a nerdy bespectacled aspiring writer dweeb who's prone to speaking in flowery, melodramatic utterances -- trek into the dark, uninviting cave in search of gold.
Now, I am not prone to much emotion, but I cried seeing this movie.
When all of this comes together, and Kate starts to recognize that she can no longer function in the same capacity, and she breaks the pie dish and screams out that she is not handicapped, it is painfully sad to watch because this has not been someone prone to emotion.
Fine performances particularly the Kristine DeBell in the lead and was that an unaccredited Richard Prior as the prone Knight being vigorously (if discreetly) ridden?
Given that Dylan Thomas is an icon of modern Anglophone poetry I expected a movie that would be prone to a hagiography of the subject.
Heather is very accident prone.
Here Max and Lucien both prone to love at first sight get mixed up with Lisa and Alice, and Alice complicates things when she calls herself Lisa.
Dexter, ever the college student prone to misadventure, has an idea for a formula to render things invisible.
If you are prone to motion sickness, stay away, the hand held camera will have you nauseous in about 10 minutes.
Not only are the characters (in this case, a gang of goofball National Guards(wo)men sent to investigate the turbulent hills of the original remake) completely obnoxious and prone to really annoying genre pitfalls (played without a lick of irony, mind you), but they are constantly cracking jokes that aren't funny.
Who ever thought that this could be a cool off the wall movie that everyone would love were slightly, no no, completely retarded!Secondly in that day and age women especially black women were not prone to be carrying and or using guns.Thirdly whats with the Asian chick speaking perfect English?
Arthur, photographed in a gauzy, movie-magazine fashion, either wants alimony from ex-husband William Powell or another shot at marriage, but I never felt for her because the character is just a string of wisecracks (she's the type of heroine prone to comical curiousness, but once inside a morgue--like all women in these '30's comedies--she faints).
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