Sentence examples for professed attitudes from inspiring English sources

While there is widespread agreement that professed attitudes toward immigration have shifted, no one has put their finger on precisely why.

In her survey of international infidelity, Lust in Translation, American writer Pamela Druckerman notes the ease with which we fall into these old emotional habits, even though our professed attitudes seem on the verge of becoming more French.

Most of us, regardless of our professed attitudes, prefer as customers to buy from better-looking salespeople, as jurors to listen to better-looking attorneys, as voters to be led by better-looking politicians, as students to learn from better-looking professors.

The word playful did not necessarily refer to the subject matter but to the professed attitude of the authors, educated men who disclaimed responsibility for their compositions.

But his professed commitment to issues of equality and a less draconian attitude towards asylum seekers remind us it is possible to be economically conservative and socially progressive – an anathema to the Coalition.

But Penn has long struggled to translate his professed liberal views, and his virtuous causes, into a respectful attitude toward women and people of color generally.

Conversely, many nurses pointed out that managers who had a negative attitude to patient safety-related issues or perhaps professed that patient safety was important but did not live up to their words could provide barriers to patient safety.

Emphasis on this aspect of their teachings led, in the late 18th and early 19th century, to the modern understanding of cynicism as "an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others".

He was a professed socialist.

Still, many professed optimism.

The problem is the professed beliefs.