And then, like many of you, at various points in the day, I'd shift out of that assessment, and I'd cycle into a stance of attempted acceptance.
Everyone has reached a stage of acceptance.
Reach a state of acceptance.
But its biggest asset is Ms. Chism's stance of forgiveness and acceptance (she also wrote the script), so at odds with Mr. Perry's customary and often severe brand of tough love.
And Ms. Chism, who also wrote the screenplay, avoids Mr. Perry's judgmental, often severe brand of tough love, embracing instead a more benign stance of forgiveness and acceptance.
For her, "the sometimes imperceptible shift from a stance of antagonism to acceptance and then to compassion is work of making peace -- be it in interpersonal conflict, in relationship to those different from us religiously, politically, or ethnically, and even in intergroup conflicts on the world stage".
A therapeutic stance of openness and acceptance is to be encouraged.
The relatively immediate relief or distraction from emotional or internal experience that NSSI offers (see data on personal accounts; [ 43]) is incompatible with a mindful stance of non-judgement, acceptance, and awareness of emotional experience [ 19].
To assess the success of discussing religious doctrine in clarifying understanding of doctrinal stance and increasing acceptance of evolution, we compared the change in evolution knowledge (KEE), doctrinal understanding (ULSE) and acceptance of evolution (MATE) between treatment and control sections using an independent one-way ANOVA analysis.
From the GLM multiple regression analysis, another predictor of acceptance of evolution (MATE score) was degree of understanding of the LDS stance on evolution (ULSE score; see Table 3).
