Sentence examples for mere attitude from inspiring English sources

And yet, at their best, Beattie's stories transcend mere attitude.

Supreme Court Justices use judicial craft and precedent to distinguish their reasoning from mere attitude, but in the end, in hard cases, their reasoning does not escape their basic values.

Postulating a link between "status anxiety" and a "paranoid style" in American politics — especially conservative politics — Hofstadter dismissed the conservative movement's positions as mere attitudes that did not merit refutation.

"Our rational beliefs and intentions are not mere mental attitudes, but active states of normative commitment" (Korsgaard 2009: 39).

Desire denotes a reflective, conscious valuing, not a mere "affective-motor" attitude, but an "affective-ideational-motor activity," a "union of prizing and appraising" (TV 218).

Early research suggesting that implicit attitudes reflect mere awareness of stereotypes, rather than personal attitudes, also implies that these states reflect processes that "happen to" agents.

The gap between the present tense (reality's tense) and the future conditional (where dreams and aspirations reside) is usually a wide one, traditionally bridged by sweat or perseverance or an optimistic attitude or mere good luck.

This is more than a backlash against the bubble years, or a mere pendulum swing in attitudes and practices.

In understanding expression, our attitude passes from mere curiosity to that immediate awareness of the concrete particular that is the core of aesthetic experience.

And Waters assured me that Zedd's bad attitude isn't mere late-career disgruntlement.

Nowadays, I think, both Joseph and Tom remain far more attractive characters than Jim Dixon, many of whose attitudes look like mere peevishness.