Sentence examples for sort of affirmation from inspiring English sources

It's odd to be prophesied about, one of the strange boons of the church, a sort of affirmation of your cosmic significance, as long as you're willing to affirm the cosmic significance of the system affirming you.

It is a sort of affirmation.

"Even a denial is seen as some sort of affirmation that there is something to deny".

We all just want some sort of affirmation to know that we are normal".

"This city really wants to beat New York as some sort of affirmation," he said.

If I was a people-pleasing drip, I dare say I would feel some sort of affirmation.

Haacke's work gives us the bare bones of power, money and history; Shrigley's thumbs-up is a very British, look-on-the-bright-side sort of stoical affirmation, a symbol of fortitude.

His violence and his deceit are a sort of existential affirmation, a mark on the world, the wrenching of a space — even a dreadful and self-punishing one — within which he makes his identity and recognizes himself.

In this sense, the mindless hatred directed toward Vonderhaarr could be seen as a warped extension of the 'trash talk' many gamers indulge in during multiplayer deathmatches – Twitter becomes a part of the experience of Black Ops, and engaging in online bullying is a sort of tribal affirmation with other players.

For Wakefield, the attacks have become a kind of affirmation.

There was no call, in Trump's speech, for any sort of action or affirmation by Congress.