The reactions to Obama's speech, however, have been less affirming: mixed emotions, anger, even, and frustrations with what turned out to be premature proclamations of a post-racial America.
"One of the things that happens when you're a minority, when you're a woman, is that the environment around you can sometimes be less affirming, and you begin to doubt yourself, and your skillset and abilities," Hammond explains.
This past week the trainer was back to his quotable self, perching on a rail outside Barn 7 and more or less affirming why the big, long Belmont would not beat his main horse.
I will be unable to bear witness to, much less affirm, an alternate racial experience.
Then he more or less affirms a view journalists have of themselves!
Mothers with depression were less sensitively attuned to their infants and were less affirming and more negating of infants' experiences.
Usually the less frequently affirmed items give higher thresholds consistent with higher trait levels, so the frequently used codes would be associated with less certainty.
These implications are related to the fact that philosophy, as practiced in the past, was less about affirming certain doctrines or propositions than it was about pursuing a particular kind of life.
No one less than Christ affirmed that there are moments when evil moves mightily in the world.
When a science fiction convention is more affirming, less body-shaming, more welcoming and less sneering than a conference with 3,000 plus "progressives," we're doing something wrong.
