The phrase "affirming like" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts to express agreement or similarity in sentiment, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "I find your perspective quite affirming like my own beliefs on the matter."
Alternatives: "similar to" or "in agreement with".
These days, I'm told, the snarky haters on Facebook have been outnumbered by the affirming "Like" army, twentyfold.
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.
Its base audience is old white men who are turned off by professional journalism and find an affirming, like-minded community on the airwaves.
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.
In "Sex and the Single Girl," she affirmed that "liking men is... by and large just about the sexiest thing you can do.
In Candy Crush Saga, a successful move is accompanied by flashing colours, upbeat music and affirming words like "delicious", which appeal directly to our reward receptors.
Created by a hometown entrepreneur mom friend, these socks speak affirming messages like "I am kind," "I am brave," and "I am awesome".
Chevron's ads seek to address the current critiques of oil companies with affirming statements like "Oil companies should support the communities they're part of" and "Oil companies should put their profits to good use".
By contrast, wearing out one's wits consciously deeming things one, as Hui Shi does, instead of simply seeing and making use of the innumerable ways they can be taken to be the "same," is like forcefully affirming that seven equals four plus three without also allowing that it equals three plus four (cf. Graham 54).
They include formal fallacies like affirming the consequent and denying the antecedent; and informal fallacies like ad hominem ("against the person"), slippery slope, ad bacculum ("appeal to force"), ad misericordiam ("appeal to pity"), "hasty generalization," and "two wrongs" (as in "two wrongs don't make a right").
Affirming valued traits, like kindness, may be a useful tool for regulating disgust toward body image.
