(1) Unfortunately, we sometimes hear of neurotic behaviors and ingrained habits such as feather-picking activities being prompted by sheer boredom.

(2) The leather of the binding was badly scuffed in places and the edges of the pages were blackened with ingrained dust.

(3) Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.

(4) Committee members said ministers were not doing enough to persuade people to use less fuel and must be prepared to use tax to change ingrained habits.

(5) The magic is in the detail of his observation, revealing more about ingrained attitudes with a sentence than a volume of social studies.

(6) Materialism begins to fade and a newly awakened spirituality loosens the grip of ingrained beliefs and ideology.

(7) The belief in a positive attitude is so ingrained in American thinking.

(8) Internal stains in teeth, for example tetracycline stains, are extremely resistant to bleaching because the stain is so deeply ingrained in the teeth.

(9) Neither is leaving furniture or fittings so ingrained with dirt and dust that they are never quite the same again and, oh yes, leaving the back yard full of rubble that the dustmen will refuse to take away.

(10) So the only thing keeping the reporters in line is their ingrained habit of deference towards a wartime president.

(11) The major difficulty you face is the ingrained belief that there are only two viable political parties in existence.

(12) Having conducted interviews with friends from her former life, I have established that it is in large part a matter of ingrained habit.

(13) The models usually last around three scenes before ingrained dirt and cracked limbs make them rather unphotogenic.

(14) None of these things are terrible, of course, but they do speak of certain ingrained attitudes towards women.

(15) He moved quietly up the stained stone stoop; impressions of dead leaves and ingrained dirt gave the granite stairway a pepper-like color.

(16) There are few things more firmly ingrained than one's belief system.

(17) As I say, this has gone on for about three weeks and, please God, the two actions are now ingrained habits.

(18) It also suggests ways for teachers to deal with any ingrained attitudes amongst pupils, through role plays and discussion groups.

(19) However, I believe that a visit by a town dweller to a game fair would challenge ingrained attitudes.

(20) Paint was peeling, floors had ingrained dirt, and all of the telephone rooms - very important for detainees' contact with the outside world - were in a disgraceful state.