"I don't want to be right on top of my neighbors, I don't want to hear them fighting, I want a little peace and quiet," says Mr. Zielinski, who has the I-know-what-I-want-and-damned-if-I'm-going-to-settle attitude of a self-made man.
David Templeton personified the in-your-face, never-let-them-settle attitude adopted by John McGlynn's men.
On the other hand women being biologically more selective about their mate have a settling down attitude once that mate has been selected in the form of a husband.
This is because the reference of a use of a true demonstrative is at least arguably determined in part by the speaker's beliefs and audience-directed intentions, whereas the reference of a pure indexical is settled by objective, attitude-independent factors of the occasion of utterance, like who is speaking when and where.
So busy renovating a spectral property, they've settled for symbols, gestures, attitudes, and little more.
Mr. Gingrich was shorthanding an essay in Forbes by the conservative theorist Dinesh D'Souza, who, in exploring Mr. Obama's attitudes toward business, settled on the theory that Mr. Obama was taking directions from the anticorporate apparition of his long-departed father.
Once settled in a cruise flight attitude, a pilot should read his/her map and follow it to the ground, anticipating landmarks as outlined.
Of course, there are some moral questions – like gay marriage or abortion – on which social attitudes are not finally settled.
"A very large number of young single males have settled who come from cultures where attitudes are very different," he said.
Certainly, no prominent theorist thinks that questions of justification are settled by an actual survey of attitudes towards existing social arrangements, and are not settled until such a survey has been carried out.
