Newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet including e-mail and blogs are usually less influential than the social environment, but they are still significant, especially in affirming attitudes and opinions that are already established.
When asked about the importance of health care affordability, females (AOR = 1.90, P = 0.04) and Democrats (AOR = 31.33, P < 0.01) were more likely to affirm that attitude, while the opposite was true as income (AOR = 0.99, P < 0.01) increased.
Rather, McLeod's account is "'weakly substantive" because she claims that certain moral attitudes to oneself for example, attitudes affirming one's own moral worth are necessary to acting autonomously.
The Church of Ireland's LGBT affirming group, Changing Attitude Ireland, welcomed the comments.
What follows, though, shifts the film from smart social satire to something else entirely - a parade of over-the-top stereotypes that, whatever their intent, play to and could affirm troubling attitudes about gay people.
Unlike the aggressive and nihilistic currents that ran through the punk rock scene, rave, as the recent documentary "Better Living Through Circuitry" portrays it, cultivates a life-affirming attitude and socially productive spirit.
Put more simply: the higher type embraces the doctrine of the eternal recurrence and thus evinces what Nietzsche often calls a "Dionysian" or "life-affirming" attitude.
Continue to live with a life-affirming attitude and an adoration for this world that disgusts them and their preoccupations with the hereafter.
They've also managed to carve out a nice niche in NYC, mainly because of their refreshingly positive and life-affirming attitude at a time when the generally accepted stance is nihilism.
Some of the male participants conveyed attitudes affirming male dominance, some even suggesting they would use "force" to convince women to adopt certain practices.
In the most complexly organized poems, the significance of the states of mind or feelings is ambiguous, but Crane's poems tend to affirm certain elemental attitudes, beliefs, opinions and stances toward God, man and the universe.
