They are mutually affirming, even mutually necessary.
At their heart, opposition to racism and freedom of speech are mutually affirming, even mutually necessary.
It is all very mutually affirming in that peculiarly American way that, like Oprah or the 12 Steps, suggests a world devoid of embarrassment.
When colleges speak of affirmative consent - the affirmative part is not just the word 'yes' but can be satisfied by the two partners mutually affirming their respect for and relationship with the other.
Communio does not simply refer to something common, but rather to a mode of being and acting in common through which the persons involved mutually confirm and affirm one another, a mode of being and acting that promotes the personal fulfillment of each of them by virtue of their mutual relationship.
Mr. Sekoff said The Huffington Post was not paying for the distribution, and AXS is not paying for the programming; the arrangement is mutually beneficial, he suggested, something that Mr. Cuban affirmed in a separate interview.
Frances FitzGerald, in her article on Dr. Joel C. Hunter, the senior pastor of Northland church, affirms the notion that "evangelical" and "liberal" are not mutually exclusive terms ("The New Evangelicals," June 30th).
It also seeks to draw social and political lessons from this era: "The evidence affirms sound economic theory, which predicts that prohibition of mutually beneficial exchanges is doomed to failure.
"On the contrary, our decision affirms a proposition essential to the integrity of the capital markets: borrowers and lenders may, under New York law, negotiate mutually agreeable terms for their transactions, but they will be held to those terms.
We are bathing in a mutually enhancing sort of love, a larger version of the circle that breastfeeding or cuddling a baby can create: a give-and-take that affirms our value as parent and child.
Yet all too often, Mr Nuttall affirms but does not explain, and he calls for some kind of instinctive understanding, with the result that if you agree with him, you can luxuriate in a sense of shared, mutually confirming, superiority.
