Sentence examples for proprietary attitudes from inspiring English sources

An ambitious comic novel that is more about how to read than about book groups or Jane Austen; all the members have different, private Austens, and their proprietary attitudes speak to the improbability that any two readers, or any two Janes, are alike.

They are landowners and their proprietary attitude towards what surrounds them is visible in their stance and their expressions".

Now that federal authorities have been forewarned about Time Warner's muscular, proprietary attitude, they cannot consider approval of the Time Warner-AOL merger a foregone conclusion.

There was pushback at the community board level, in part from runners and walkers who had developed a proprietary attitude about what had originally been exclusively for equestrians.

Take Charlotte Beauchamp — and Ivo apparently has, leaving Charlotte with a nastily proprietary attitude toward him and a bitchy one toward Cora.

Mr. Le is well aware of this proprietary attitude and takes steps in his video — on which he collaborated with two Vietnamese artists, Phu-Nam Thuc Ha and Tuan Andrew Nguyen — to shake it up.

(And while it's true that Kafka is a key figure of the Jewish cultural past, as one of the world's most significant authors whose themes find echoes in many countries and cultures, Israel's proprietary attitude is surely misplaced).

New Yorkers have a rather proprietary attitude toward their green spaces, with Central Park holding a special place in people's hearts.

No surprise, then, that NRE's proprietary attitude has stuck in the craw of developers and open data enthusiasts alike for years.

The scope of advisers' obligations is so broad that they must develop a highly proprietary attitude toward client information if they're to avoid sanctions and adverse client actions.

He had the slick, proprietary attitude that small men from big cities sometimes bring toward big men from small cities.