My friend's daughter, who attends one of those schools where all the students are children of either well-off Nigerians or well-paid expatriates, recently captured this attitude while summarizing the plot of my novel to her mother.
As for "Green Onions," a song that is the foundation of the label's identity, we could take the words of Booker T. Jones himself, who, in Robert Gordon's recent book, "Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion," describes it as capturing "this attitude of making it as funky as can be, as simple as can be".
The form of skepticism that seems best to capture this attitude is Academic skepticism, which is in fact the position he explicitly espouses when accused of Pyrrhonism by Jurieu.
Local pidgin has an expression, "Cool head, main t'ing" (or "thing" for standard English fanatics) that perfectly captures this island attitude.
"He captures the culture, he captures the attitude and he really highlights the ridiculous on issues that are blocking us," said Fatin Yousef Bundagji, a business consultant and activist.
In the title role, J. Kyle Manzay captures the attitude of the depressed and sullen young prince, home from school to mourn his father, furious with his mother, Gertrude, for having immediately married her dead husband's brother, Claudius.
What Mr. Stone excels at is conjuring the mood of specific times and places, capturing the attitude he and his friends shared as well as the larger zeitgeist.
The birth order of the child captures the attitudes of mothers towards immunization as the number of children increases.
It's been said a great photograph should capture the attitude, the soul and the mind of a great moment.
The opening lines of "Star Trek" captured the attitude of '60s-era Americans; we were divided on other issues but united in support of our space program.
