21. Steinbrenner's tropism to sadder-but-wiser older guys helped pay off in rings for everybody. 22. But gossip, glitter, and a tropism for deadly earnest discussions of Sexsexsexsexsex and more so quickly pall. 23. In 1932, she had begun writing " Tropisms , " a book comprising 24 short sketches. 24. The project may create self-deception without conscious thought, as a tropism creates action without conscious thought. 25. Among the common tropisms seen in plants is phototropism, the bending of the plant toward a source of light. 26. Also, the addition of atmospheric nitrogen, also called nitrogen fixation, is an example of chemo-tropism . 27. Viral tropism tends to be multifactorial, so looking for general principles is less rewarding than looking at more specific issues. 28. An example of this is the human immunodeficiency virus, which exhibits tropism for CD4 related immune cells ( e . g. 29. All these groups overlap heavily and ( where evidence is available ) seem to share characteristic hacker tropisms for science fiction, music. 30. This tropism toward tabloidism has crossed the pond, with a big boost from the Murdoch wanna-bes who increasingly dominate American journalism.