Sentence examples for less affirming from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Mothers with depression were less sensitively attuned to their infants and were less affirming and more negating of infants' experiences.

The women she usually writes about have a snide streak that Rosenfeld's own sardonic tone amplifies, and the situations they face are less affirming than the books' chick lit packaging would suggest.

They would have been no less affirmed if the pope had written an encyclical based on the commission's recommendations instead of the one he actually wrote, differing from them.

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.

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.

And some participants have found that the slaughter is, well, less than life affirming.

Hume is less interested in affirming ontologies than in showing why we have no good reason to invest belief in them, and accordingly picks up on the rather different Gassendist theme of coming to terms with the ancient Skeptics.

Reasons for exclusion were not having a bike, and/or affirming less than 1 km between home and school.

That became clear when, early on, the Pope insisted — again, in both word and deed — that experience takes priority over doctrine, mercy over rules, which is a pious way of affirming nothing less than the scientific method, the testability of truth.