He suggested that, fundamentally, the mind can refer to objects by perception and ideation, including sensing and imagining; by judgment, including acts of acknowledgment, rejection, and recall; and by loving or hating, which take into account desires, intentions, wishes, and feelings.
They are gentle, tender acts of acknowledgment and trust, like all good gentlemanly kisses.
Second, Israel should undertake an act of genuine acknowledgment of the dispossession and displacement visited on the Palestinian people, including compensating refugees where appropriate, and thus set in motion the possibility of reconciliation.
Here simplicity is less an act of modesty than an acknowledgment of other things onstage.
But in the right hands — in Wilentz's hands, or Joan Didion's, say, a writer whom Wilentz matches for note-perfect prose and unflinching inquiry — it becomes almost an act of humility, this open acknowledgment of the self who's telling the story, with all her flaws and shifting moods, her own set of agendas.
Though Obama and the CIA have gestured in the last two years toward lifting the veil of official secrecy, the main act of transparency has been presidential acknowledgment that the drone strikes occur.
Through their decisions to act passively in acknowledgment of the pressures that caregivers face HSWs demonstrated empathic awareness of these family situations: I've had family members where they go ballistic on you… But in the end, you just have to let them go through their little phase and then they're fine, right?
"I will forever be thankful to your honor for this act of kindness," the half brother wrote in acknowledgment.
The word, applied to Biggers's work, might act as an acknowledgment of a stubborn but essential quietness, engineered to demand a pause from the viewer.
