Sentence examples for affirmation with an from inspiring English sources

The critic Alfred Kazin recognized this distinctively American attitude of what might be called critical patriotism when he described the cultural mood of the 1930's as "born of the depression and the international crisis," but also suffused with a feeling of "affirmation," with "an insistence to know and to love what it knew".

A student handed in a paper that wasn't very good; her English teacher looked directly at her and said, "Miss Walsh, this is a mediocre paper and you are not a mediocre person". A harsh public reprimand, but also an affirmation with an impact that endures.

"I appreciate you picking up — you don't normally do that," Critelli told him, mixing in positive affirmation with a call to action.

It was a night of mutual affirmation with a band and an adoring audience, their community, who truly seemed to love being together again.

"And every day will happen without you," she sang, seasoning her affirmations with a bitter dash of loneliness, or, in the spiritual sense, egolessness.

I often say my affirmations with a corresponding crystal for an extra positive and magical boost.

The clip finds a lonely little brown girl with chunky glasses and an uneven haircut discovering the power of self-affirmation with a recorder in hand and a groove in her step, leading some to refer to it as "an ode to little brown girls everywhere".

There was a note of affirmation with this claim -- a not so subtle discard of the qualifying hyphen.

It began as an affirmation, with churchy organ chords and Jonsi's purest sustained high notes, and a tree blooming on the video screen.

He explicates this affirmation with three metaphors and a slogan: "the overlapping things, the things in the universe that throw the last stone, so to speak, and say the final word.

But, more than that, it gives us some kind of meaning or affirmation, along with a dose of perspective.