I'd seen her on 'Laugh-In' and shit, and something about her is very sensual, isn't it?" Sensuality implies a certain physical abandonment, an acknowledgment of the emotional mess that oozes out between the seams that hold our public selves together — and an understanding of the metaphors that illustrate that disjunction.
It allows you to acknowledge the physical challenges of childbirth, and in that acknowledgment, surmount them.
Understanding mental health requires not just acknowledgment of the physical realms emphasised by biomedicine, say anthropologists, but also the moral, spiritual, emotional, and social (22).
It was an inventory of their physical manifestation and also a disarming acknowledgment of objectification.
Beyond our physical needs, the existential cry for acknowledgment underlies everything we do.
It is likely that in today's society with its concomitant trends of longevity and public acknowledgment of the benefits of physical activity, people link the idea of health with unrestricted physical functioning and role performance.
Many colloquialisms, like "beauty is only skin deep," suggest that there is collective acknowledgment that the fixation on physical beauty is superficial, Dr. Synnott writes.
Ghostly's site announces: "The totem is a physical format for cloud-based listening, an acknowledgment of two seemingly irreconcilable notions: the need for a tangible representation of music and a future in which music is utterly ethereal".
The height Melville gave in 1856 may be his honest acknowledgment that sciatica and other physical ailments of the past several years had literally reduced his stature – an example of the same honesty that had earlier led him to acknowledge procrastination to be a "sad failing".
Though she laments the end of the housewife, the eradication of public smoking, or the emergence of physical fitness, she does so with the full acknowledgment that such developments represent progress, at least for general health.
