Angelou's books, and her life itself, became a kind of organizing tool, a rallying cry, an affirmation.
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A contradictory pair of sentences (an antiphasis) consists of an affirmation and its negation (i.e. the negation that negates of the subject what the affirmation affirms of it).
His responsive guffaw was an affirmation; a conspiratorial clink of the goblets, so to speak.
And that is a terrible affirmation of failure.
If that still doesn't sound like a ringing affirmation of her happiness, so be it.
It is a resounding affirmation of a judicial principle we love: Make the polluter pay.
The Wisconsin case stands as a ringing affirmation of students' rights and academic freedom.
When the godfather of modern sports statistics, Bill James, wrote a rousing affirmation, Stern's suggestion spread rapidly.
"We hope that the demonstrations will be peaceful and a powerful affirmation of Iraqi democracy," said the spokesman, Aaron Snipe.
"It's a huge affirmation of what I've been working on for 10 years," the 39-year-old said.
