Sentence examples for a deferential attitude of from inspiring English sources

The success of accommodation depends on a deferential attitude of the populace toward their elites.

He maintained a deferential attitude towards the older, seniority-laden Southern members when he first entered the Senate, avoiding publicity and focusing on committee work and local issues.

By Timothy Maguire and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, May 15 , 1954P. 31 A modest suburban man who works in the advertising department of a women's magazine has been puzzled by the deferential attitude of the neighborhood children toward him.

But many feel it should not be the job of lawyers and judges to drive social change that they should instead take a more deferential attitude towards public opinion, restricting themselves to, in the words of the open letter, "punish[ing] violations of existing norms".

For those of us who belong to a demographic that is doing increasingly better, a trained empathic reflex toward those we know to be losing for our gains could lead to a more deferential attitude on our part and could constitute an invitation for them to stay with us.

The up-side of this less than deferential attitude toward the big screen is that, when viewers do engage with the movie, they can come up with comments that are often more entertaining or shrewd than the picture itself.

Being a theory of individual competence, Marconi's account does not deal directly with lexical meanings in a public language: communication depends both on the uniformity of cognitive interactions with the external world and on communal norms concerning the use of language, together with speakers' deferential attitude toward semantic authorities.