They either have a tendency to hyperbolize and make life much more glamorous and titillating than it is, or the other way.
But I do think if you look at history and you do believe that history has a tendency to do what?
In New York, district attorneys have a tendency to grow moss-bound in their roles.
Despite his tendency to speak frankly on political issues, he insists that neither he nor his group are politically active.
The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast has a tendency to lose its guests in the middle of the night.
I freely say that the tendency of my thought, based on observation, is to conservatism.
This tendency is in every one of us; but in some of us more than in others.
That Hester had a tendency to high church had little or nothing to do with the matter.
He was sorry to see this tendency to aristocracy on the part of members.
Now the tendency in France seems to be to go back to the monoplane.
1620s, from Medieval Latin tendentia "inclination, leaning," from Latin tendens, present participle of tendere "to stretch, aim" (see tenet). Earlier in same sense was tendaunce (mid-15c.), from Old French tendance.
