The phrase "attitude behind this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the underlying mindset or perspective that informs a particular action or statement.
Example: "Understanding the attitude behind this decision is crucial for addressing the concerns of the team."
Alternatives: "mindset behind this" or "perspective behind this".
The attitude behind this last sentence seems to me the regrettable part of Orwell's legacy.
"The attitude behind this sort of thing might be summed up in one phrase: 'I'm telling you,' " Pinter said in 1962.
Believe me, there are Jews everywhere"—and you must accept the attitude behind this punch line as somehow completing an ethnocentric world-view in which miracles are second nature.The movie accepts very little though it adds a lot including two useless characters and an unhappy ending.
But the attitude behind this expression is unfortunate.
Keyes reveals the paranoiac attitude behind this: "We have to face the probability that the pattern of events we're seeing comes from a purposeful intention to destroy the constitutional sovereignty of the American people".
This is poetry with attitude: "Behind the wide windows of the showroom, new cars were arrayed like sugary pastries in a bakery case".
"We know about the materialistic attitude behind those S.U.V.'s," he said.
That community attitude behind the Manchester acid house scene isn't often remembered.
But the attitude behind the costume (alluding to a Nijinsky role), the purposeful mistakes and the handyman walk-on were unclear.
The attitude behind the poll is indicative of the mostly blasé feeling among listeners to sports radio outside New York that the Yankees (and to a lesser degree, the Mets) so dominate baseball financially that few teams can compete with them.
The genius in the ad seems marginally less annoying than the real Apple geniuses giving you attitude behind the bar at retail stores, but critics have been harsh.
