The type of event that requires careful pre-call meditative deep breathing, positive affirmation, autohypnotic closed-eye success visualizations, and as many as five throat clears.
Today, religion is often divisive (even violently so); in the 1960s, Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel modeled a friendship rooted in deep admiration and mutual affirmation of their respective spiritual traditions.
In many ways, the new pat-on-the-back by two of the biggest money men in the game is an astonishing affirmation of deep ties forged years ago at ALEC.
I can also take a self-directed action - do some deep breathing, say some affirmations, drop into self-hypnosis, or drop down and do some push ups.
Yet perhaps because Mr. Brooks doesn't want to get too heavy, even when the story lists toward the weighty, much of the dialogue comes in tiny, epigrammatic bites not much bigger and certainly no deeper than the affirmations that Lisa has scribbled on Post-its and stuck on her bathroom mirror.
When you get married, your relationship is taken more seriously by those around you; when you are also gay, the sense of public affirmation goes strikingly deep.
This emphasis on benevolent rulership, expressed in numerous bronze inscriptions, was both a reaction to the collapse of the Shang dynasty and an affirmation of a deep-rooted worldview.
Even though both candidates strove to marginalize their differences over Europe in their stump appearances, the outcome was likely to be seen as affirmation of the deep-seated Conservative antipathy to Britain's abandoning the pound for the euro and joining what Mr. Duncan Smith calls "the European superstate".
Take five deep breaths and say a positive affirmation.
It's the same kind of heady, verbal movie that artfully blends romance, life affirmations, thoughtful opinions and deep emotion.
