"A city well performing in a forward-looking way in economy, people, governance, mobility, environment, and living, built on the smart combination of endowments and activities of self-decisive, independent, and aware citizens" [24].
Misogyny and other forms of bigotry are thus borne of the demand that the self be decisive, invulnerable, and unitary together with the impossibility of meeting this demand.
Such a conception of the self exhibits decisive parallels to the tradition of "religious individualism" that centers religious life on the individual and stresses the importance of inwardness and the introspective examination of one's inner motives, intentions and conscience.
And employers say they need graduates that are self-aware, decisive and good communicators.
Business schools and the careers to which they lead mould one to be self-promoting, analytical, decisive and ambitious.
Whatever the reality, Freya veered for years between the urge to decisive, self-fulfilling action — she studied nursing and served, during the Great War, at the Italian front — and a tendency toward illness and breakdown that made her appear headed for the life of a typically quashed female hysteric.
Madsen batted superbly, giving his team-mates the benefit of a masterclass in how not to throw your wicket away while demonstrating simultaneously that, with a good technique, self-belief and decisive shot selection, scoring big runs need not be the preserve of the opposition.
Among its classic offerings is Raoul Walsh's 1941 crime drama "High Sierra," in which, David Denby writes, the Bogart screen persona — "the dark suit and wide tie, the hat worn as tightly as a glove, the self-sufficient and decisive temperament operating in service of a private code of honor" — enjoyed its "first great flowering".
As we mentees become more self-aware and decisive, our mentor-mentee relationships may become even richer.
Presenting Desdemona as decisive and self-aware and Othello as sadistic and even slightly self-loathing is a provocative view, but the production did not convince.
"I have become more decisive and self-aware," she writes of her transformation from daughter to mother.
