Second, Israel should undertake an act of genuine acknowledgment of the dispossession and displacement visited on the Palestinian people, including compensating refugees where appropriate, and thus set in motion the possibility of reconciliation.
Experimentation is an act of humility, an acknowledgment that there is simply no way of knowing without trying something different.
Here simplicity is less an act of modesty than an acknowledgment of other things onstage.
Rather than being a form of self-indulgence, self-forgiveness might be better seen as an act of humility, an honest acknowledgment of our capacity for causing harm as well as our potential for doing good.
But in the right hands — in Wilentz's hands, or Joan Didion's, say, a writer whom Wilentz matches for note-perfect prose and unflinching inquiry — it becomes almost an act of humility, this open acknowledgment of the self who's telling the story, with all her flaws and shifting moods, her own set of agendas.
I can't think of anybody who enjoys spending their time in an airport on a Friday night, but on this particular night, the small, random act of acknowledgment temporarily brought together a group of strangers and aligned them toward a common interest, a shared value.
This simple act of acknowledgment makes a big difference to how competent I feel as a parent.
"The first is that the very act of acknowledgment seems to suggest that something has been accomplished," he wrote in his own acknowledgments.
For Vice President Al Gore, the second presidential debate was basically an act of contrition, a sustained and sometimes lightly self-mocking acknowledgment of where he had gone wrong the first time around.
The acknowledgment was perceived by many Sunni Arab leaders as an act of belligerence that poured fuel on the sectarian fire.
