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.
"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).
Because body positions influence attitude, the mere act of unwinding a resistant posture will begin to subvert the resistance, itself.
This is more than a backlash against the bubble years, or a mere pendulum swing in attitudes and practices.
Any other view opens the gates to the snake farm of political interests in which mere power and mass attitudes, momentarily impassioned by the demagogic sophistry of lawyers and social movement leaders, are determinative.
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.
Nowadays, I think, both Joseph and Tom remain far more attractive characters than Jim Dixon, many of whose attitudes look like mere peevishness.
