"The real question", he wrote, "is the dehumanisation of Africa and Africans which [an] age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world".Re-reading "Heart of Darkness", he explained, it became clear that he would never be on Marlow's boat steaming up the Congo.
It's a life-long attitude to thriving.
A snippet of the speech was long on attitude, short on policy prescriptions: "Why are you running for president?
As long as "Attitude" remains close to the ground and close to the reality of the people who appear in it, it is convincing and strong.
If it's short on geopolitical sophistication, it's long on attitude, which is fitting for a man who's partial to big-dog metaphors.
It did not take long for attitudes among filmgoers and critics to change.
For many successful family-owned businesses, this inherent long-term attitude and the responsibility felt by the family for its staff and the company's success is key.
Their big congregations are influential in forming mainstream opinion in the city-state.Religion has also long dictated attitudes towards gay and lesbian rights in neighbouring Malaysia, which has a Muslim majority and outlaws homosexuality.
A move to the Barbican, to a hall that audiences hated, had drained the orchestra's finances, while a long-standing attitude of entitlement among the musicians created a parallel drain in creativity and passion, London critics say.
Indeed, the enshrinement of hipness as a long-term attitude — the idea that first you're cool and then you're uncool and then you die — is probably the worst legacy of the culture of the 60s.
