Its base audience is old white men who are turned off by professional journalism and find an affirming, like-minded community on the airwaves.
In "Sex and the Single Girl," she affirmed that "liking men is... by and large just about the sexiest thing you can do.
That's a big dynamic, so I think that by having it so marginalized, it became an affirmative thing where people were affirming they liked something.
These days, I'm told, the snarky haters on Facebook have been outnumbered by the affirming "Like" army, twentyfold.
Like seeks like, and like affirms like — and people gravitate to the intellectually similar others, even when all of their actions should rightly set off alarm bells.
As they participate in the family, write essays exploring such issues as their attraction to drugs, memorize the Concepts and generally behave themselves, they move up in "status," earning rewards that are both tangible and affirming, like receiving mail.
Don't expect a weepy life-affirmer like Lenny Abrahamson's Oscar-nominated Room, neither; Thirteen also subverts traditional abduction tales, but it's a more adrenaline-charged offering.
Talk, of course, isn't even from Latin, but the friendly -ative suffix clung to it anyway, by analogy with other verbs that form adjectives by appending -ative, like affirm and affirmative, or represent and representative.
He also liked to affirm that only poets and composers should be made ambassadors.
