The proximate causes of particular topophilia are embedded in measurable characteristics: environmental perception, defined as the response of senses to external stimuli and purposeful activity; attitude, or ingrained cultural stances; and values, the rank-ordered conception of preferences that emerge following a personalized exercise in trade-offs among alternative scenarios.
Like her near-namesake, she is also brisk and purposeful in her attitude to trade, offering repeated opportunities to buy "signed topless selfies" and inquiring, in case we were unsure, "Did you know you can get a download of my naughty and very rude Blue Movie Star here".
Direction of action: this purposeful and prudential attitude is not confined to avoid possible negative, unintended consequences of one's behaviour.
The true insights, however, are found in their aspiring attitudes, optimistic outlooks and purposeful persistence.
It defines terrorism as the calculated and purposeful use of violence employed to influence the attitudes and behaviour of people and governments, and takes its raw data from the U.S. National Counter-terrorism Center's Worldwide Incidents Tracking System.
Walk with a purposeful confidence and a don't-you-dare-mess-with-me attitude.
But the attitude behind the costume (alluding to a Nijinsky role), the purposeful mistakes and the handyman walk-on were unclear.
At the other extreme are purposeful innovators, defined as individuals who actively seek out new ideas, attitudes, and experiences.
Clinicians' beliefs and attitudes were also explored through qualitative interviews with a purposeful sample of 22 clinicians from the teams.
Although we set out to recruit a purposeful sample, most patients who participated were female, potentially missing some of the specific attitudes and experiences of male chronic patients.
