In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all.
Quotes about predilection (7 Quotes)
PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
You want to understand the powers and predilection of the national government to look at your data and the chance that the service provider would comply. Some country is always getting caught doing some industrial espionage against U.S. companies. It's nothing new.
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
This administration is as Machiavellian as any I recall in my lifetime, having already done much to rehabilitate the image of Nixon In their predilection for political power, they have internalized Machiavellis advice never to let his thoughts stray from the exercise of war. ... A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and faithful.
I always try to burden even the villains with some weird predilection they have to cope with. It helps make them memorable, and gives them a human side.