What linked his roles in films like "The Freshman" and "The Kid Brother" was "a comic attitude" that combined "determination, optimism, ambition and ingenuity".
Bell-bottoms were, he said, a way of expressing personal freedom, the delight and beauty of movement, and a rather comic attitude toward life.
It is not surprising that they selected their themes from every Renaissance problem of order and authority, of passion and reason, of good and evil and explored every comic attitude to people and society with unsurpassed vigour and vision.
As soon as the style of the play's nominal star, Kathie Lee Gifford, makes it clear that genuine comic attitude will turn into performing attitude while she's around, one begins to detect the incompatibility between collaborative lightness and star tripping.
Thus, we used a similar scale, which we termed the Comic Attitude Scale (CAS), by using the word "comic" in place of "biology" in the original BAS.
Even though Norman Reedus' character wasn't in Robert Kirkman's original comics, Dixon's attitude and crossbow quickly helped him transition into one of the show's central characters.
As the text-based biology content was presented in comic format, a positive association between one's attitude toward comics and biology may suggest that this comic book could have played a role in influencing student attitudes about biology.
We used pre- and postinstruction instruments to measure students' attitudes about biology, attitudes about comics, and content knowledge about evolution before and after using the science comic book Optical Allusions in their classes.
The improvement in attitudes about biology was correlated to attitudes about comics, suggesting that the comic may have played a role in engaging and shaping student attitudes in a positive way.
These changes in individual student attitudes about biology were positively correlated with changes in their attitudes about comics.
