Slow TV mines the pleasures of ambiguity, which are affirmed, as it happens, by one of the best movies I've recently seen, "Room 237," a documentary in limited theatrical release and on cable TV.
Chrysippus defined a proposition as "that which is capable of being denied or affirmed as it is in itself" and gave examples of propositions such as "it is day" and "Dion is walking".
Few moments in a queer person's life are as terrifying and affirming as coming out; it is a decision that can instantaneously redefine the world's perception of you, inviting the judgement and prejudice of strangers into your life.
Historical consciousness produced by turns theories of literary progress and primitivistic theories affirming, as one critic put it, that "barbarous" times are the most favourable to the poetic spirit.
Dante answers this by affirming, as noted above, that the natural desire for perfection is always proportionate to our capacity to attain it; for to desire the unattainable would be to desire our imperfection [3.15.8 11].
To be sure, this news doesn't seem as delectable as People's Sexiest Man Alive or as snugly affirming as Time's Person of the Year.
Affirming, as an alternative to swearing, was introduced by the Parliamentary Oaths Act of 1866, but did not at first apply to atheists or agnostics.
By all accounts, the feedback from the participants was positive and affirming as key life skills were imparted including tolerance, empathy and teamwork.
Everything you feel that you're choosing because you affirm it as good — your career, your marriage, reading The New York Times today, or even espousing reductionism — you'll have to regard intellectually as just an effect of moving and material causes.
Here, too, he has turned to outsiders for counsel, arranging a global poll of deaneries and parishes to find out how they deal with the family".[Francis] is not a dogmatic scholar who would just like to affirm everything as it was in the textbooks," says Hans Küng, a liberal Swiss theologian who has clashed with successive popes over doctrine.
