Sentence examples for stock attitudes from inspiring English sources

A former dancer, he wages war on the stock attitudes that opera singers recycle generation after generation — for example, the tenorial arm gesture that he characterizes as "Please examine our fine display of jewelry" or "Would you like a pie?" In Curran's scheme, Elena's wayward behavior was the affect of a Romantic-era "flower child" who has been freed from social mores.

I'm no master at it, and have been known to haggle upwards, but I did my best, working through the stock attitudes of mock indignation ("How much?!"), steely determination ("My final offer"), the bit where you pretend to walk away and the inevitable meek return.

As he admonished Molly for cheating on Jack's all but adopted son Tyrone Alan Halsalll), he summed up his stock attitude towards life, and marriage, that in turn reflects Corrie's truthful spirit.

With the specter of stock downturns, company attitudes toward stock options may be changing.

As she takes stock of such attitudes, Ms. Roiphe finds herself doing some wry, perceptive reassessment.

When they start trading in the penny stock market, investor attitudes may change — but the government fiction that the two are private companies almost certainly won't.

For all the economic changes of late, from slowing growth to slumping stock markets, the attitudes of people have evolved even more quickly, career counselors at business schools say.

To change this attitude, stock exchanges, as a condition for listing a stock, should require at least half the directors on a company's board to be independent.

In a Harvard Business Review article, Freek Vermeulen cites a study by Professor Michelle Arthur, from the University of New Mexico, that measures the stock market's attitude toward Fortune 500 companies' announcement of work-life programs.

An analysis by Ned Davis Research shows that the rate of change in gas prices is an important influence on the attitudes of stock investors.

But just as technology companies have transformed attitudes about stock price valuations and the track record that a company should have before going public, so have they blown through the old guidelines on options.