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The moniker "affect-based" is problematic given that some variants of hedonism conceive of pleasure in non-affective terms, for instance as an attitude of liking or being pleased, where this attitude need not involve affect (e.g., Feldman 2004, 2010).
Sure, I'm overweight and certainly didn't hop out of the pages of a magazine (wait, is Midwestern Schlub a magazine?), but I've always adopted an attitude of liking what I like in terms of style.
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"They kind of came in with an attitude of like, 'Why are you trying to put us out of business?'" said Brown.
But 'Pandora's Box' had been opened and in the mid-80's Madonna broke the silence with the shock value sex and anti-establishment attitude of "Like A Virgin," and a generation of young woman found their voice and style... virginity no longer prized, but mocked.
Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes of likes and dislikes, may be and often is of much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.
Vicente's work, she writes, is "caught midway in an attitude of surprise, like Marianne Moore's 'real bird in a painted tree.' " This feels like a fitting description of Vicente's abstractions.
The underlying suffering that Charles expressed even in his most euphoric moments clashes with the indefatigably upbeat attitude of songs like her encore, "It's Today," from "Mame".
Doubts about the future and attitude of the likes of Steed Malbranque and Kenwyne Jones gradually faded last season and Bruce has built a decent squad based around players from across the globe, a couple of decent youth-team graduates and the unstoppable Darren Bent.
The no-holds-barred attitude of groups like AIM being is carried forward by Savage Family, it seems.
She has been an outspoken opponent of what she calls the "hovercraft" parent, the one who espouses the hyperprotective attitudes of communities like ours because any stand against them smells like neglect.
The piece is an immense minaret, in cast aluminum, that is propped on a steel framework in the attitude of a Scud-like missile.
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