Sentences with phrase «general attitude of»

Or maybe you just had a general attitude of boredom, which may or may not have been caused by nervousness.

To this end, the interviewer may ask several questions related to the lifestyle, psyche, personal traits and general attitude of the interviewee.

The interviewer may ask several questions related to the lifestyle, psyche, personal traits and general attitude of the interviewee.

This approach reflected the general attitude of the legal profession in the mid-to-late 1990s.

It reflects the pluralism and variety of this art scene and points to the general attitude of laissez faire characterizing so much of today's art.

Some of the camera angle and lighting choices I find to be a little strange but the idea, the sound effects / music and general attitude of not - taking - it - too - seriously make up for that.

As a fan of Berry's work, I thought his voice perfectly fits the general attitude of the series and his comedic lines guide you through the missions.

Given the style and general attitude of the game, it feels like its design for high scoring affairs with leads going back and forth.

«Pura Vida» is much more than a bit of slang in Costa Rica, it is the defining way of life and general attitude of the entire population.

Dropping in unannounced can reveal the true appearance and odor of the facility and the general attitude of the staff.

The general attitude of the film, even as it captures all the classic definitions of retro slasher flicks, is fixed firmly in the present day.

Anthropologists have also noted a difference in the acceptance of the practice based on the general attitude of the society.

When you say, «The general attitude of this thread,» are you talking about THIS thread, or the one on Dear Abby's column?

As an institution, marriage is ordered toward public recognition, which makes its redefinition something different and more threatening than the general attitude of license.

Certainly trust extended to the God known in the experience of forgiveness would lead naturally to the practice of prayer, and the existence of the Lord's Prayer itself is evidence enough that Jesus did, in fact, lead his followers from the general attitude of trust to the particular expression of it in prayer.

There's a general attitude of «I can't do this.

They help retain talent, attract capital and affect the general attitude of the local business community.

When you look at it though in terms of a formal setting, highly structured rule - governed setting, playfulness is a very negative attribute because it incurs the negative behaviours and verbalisations and general attitudes of, in our case, the teachers.

Not exact matches

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization, is embracing the Just - Say - No attitude towards marijuana and links the industry to violence and crime as he begins his role as the nation's top attorney.

But attitude alone isn't enough to explain the success of a festival that, with general admission tickets running between $ 100 and $ 135 per day, pulled in well north of $ 13 million this year before concessions.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

Perhaps it is little wonder, then, that when the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke in October 2017, the general Russian attitude, on the part of both men and women, was overwhelmingly one of bemusement and victim shaming.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.

«I think his general attitude toward women was just, subtly, that we were less capable,» said Ms. Amin, a junior designer on one of the Nike apps, who added that she had received positive performance reviews since becoming an employee in 2014.

The general attitude needs to be that EVERYONE needs to be welcomed and loved at church... thats the job of the congregation... dealing with the issues of someone's life is up to the pastoral staff and unless you're part of it whats going on in someones life is none of your business.

Typically, this would look like the child of the difficult family dismissing the actions of a hard parent or sibling with a general «Oh, my family is crazy,» laissez - faire, kind of attitude.

Romney's comment was perhaps well meant, but taken in the context of all of his ideas about women, that they must be taken care of because they are fragile, delicate creatures, who can't think or care for themselves and are better fit for staying home and taking care of the offspring than out in the work force, the words mirror his general condescending attitude toward women.

I've been to four of these, starting ten years ago, and in that short time the group's general attitude to Catholics, and to a lesser extent to Catholicism, has — as far as the outsider can tell — changed a great deal.

The KJV translates this, «And the common people heard him gladly,» converting a reference to a particular occasion into a general assertion about the attitude of the common people toward Jesus.

Are his general attitudes moralistic, or do his sermons and talks reveal a deeper understanding of human behavior?

Blumhofer sums up the general attitude: «Emphasis was always on woman's responsibility, not her rights; on her service to the cause of Christ.

«His general attitude,» writes Gottlieb, «is an instance of what might be called the higher dismissiveness.

This general attitude has been documented in many polls, such as the recent survey conducted for Time magazine which found that only 24 per cent of Catholics consider artificial birth control wrong, despite the church's condemnation.

Subjectivism dominates not only the attitude of our age toward values but modern thinking in general.

In contrasting origin and development, nature and purpose, structure and attitudes of the religiously motivated group with that of other types of grouping, the sociologist will attempt to define its general characteristics.

Nearly as shameful, there is nothing in «Masters of War» that suggests that the Korean War or even World War II might be exceptions to the general case being made — that is, the attitude seems to be that even if they were necessary wars, they were necessarily conducted by bad men.

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

I became disgusted by my own acceptance of general rock attitudes, and I came to hate rock, hipsterdom, rock intellectualizing, and the whole narrative of rock music whether, for example, it was Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, The Who, David Bowie, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Feelies, Yo La Tengo or the Pixies (etc.).

While it may readily be granted that certain hostile, fearful, and punitive attitudes toward sexual impulses will be harmful to personality, it does not follow that inhibition of sexual activity is intrinsically undesirable, or that a general relaxation of standards for sexual behavior is indicated.

In principle it is perfectly compatible with views of punishment harsher than those normally practiced toward convicted criminals (murderers or otherwise), but whether one's general attitude concerning punishment tends toward the severe or the lenient, the basic fact of the Cain story as a paradigm is the preservation of a guilty life.

This is the general attitude adopted by the majority of orthodox Sufis and ardently defended by such men as Tustari (died 273; AD.

In general, editors denounced racial prejudice and spoke of the equality of women, but reflected the narrowness of their cultural attitudes more than they themselves recognized in the jokes they published and in the phrasing of their editorials.

Further, with the exception of attitudes toward abortion, there is evidence that general public opinion is not polarizing at all.

Generality results from the lived experience of acting out and among objective similarities, thereby creating certain general bodily attitudes.

It is perhaps valuable to seem to digress in this way, if only to bring out into the open conflicts of attitude that may be reflected in one's theological judgement, although their roots lie in quite general considerations of another sort.

The general attitudes and ordering of values in Scripture contain timeless wisdom about God's relationship to the people of God and the world.

The general religiousness of that nation, so different in cultural character from that in North America, has contributed both to a measure of forgiveness and mutual trust within a highly plural body politic, These attitudes to be sure are both flawed and fragile, but they have made a difference.

If this speculation has any validity, the dramatic change in attitudes toward the right to die may be part of a more general drift since World War II toward greater tolerance, as evidenced by an increase in respect for the civil liberties of «deviants» of both the «left» and the «right.»

In the midst of scandals, intra-ecclesial ideological battles, and a widespread attitude of indifference — if not scorn — toward religion in general and the Catholic faith in particular, a steady stream of courageous souls continue to convert from other confessions — or no confession — to the Catholic faith.

These differences between the «mainstreams» cultivated by religious and general television are significant because for many years general television has been functioning as a powerful, and perhaps even the major, cultivator of our society's values, attitudes and behavior.