There is a perhaps fatal tendency for Australian males to portray themselves in film as rogue warriors.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.

I think this was due partly to inexperience and partly to a fatal tendency to attempt to compromise with people who regard any form of compromise as weakness.

Hard on the heels of the furore about women priests it now has to contend with something equally knotty - the fatal British tendency to be kind to animals.

But it can be a dangerous game, and you hope it's not a fatal tendency.

All five share two things: an overfondness for alcohol and a fatal tendency to take Julian's remarks as gospel.

I have a fatal tendency to prove my superiority at the expense of my friends and kinfolk.

I think I have inherited this fatal tendency.

Basil Duke Lee is a bright, sensitive, likeable boy, constantly betrayed by a fatal tendency to brag and boss.

In terms of talent, he reportedly outshone all his peers, but "he owned a self-destruct button and had a fatal tendency to press it".