It is neither a bland latitudinarianism that admits any or all viewpoints and practices nor a fanatical intolerance but rather a subtle interplay of affirmation and rejection.
"Micro-affirmations are subtle or apparently small acknowledgements of a person's value and accomplishments..
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully assembled social niceties, all of those subtle, sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbor's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here," that Rwanda was a one-off.
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully-assembled social niceties, all of those subtle-sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbor's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here," that Rwanda was a one-off.
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully-assembled social niceties, all of those subtle-sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbour's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here", that Rwanda was a one-off.
There was a note of affirmation with this claim -- a not so subtle discard of the qualifying hyphen.
Even the most incidental bird watching delivers insights and affirmations about the vagaries of the seasons, the subtle shifts of streams and tide, the boundaries of vegetation and habitat, and motions of air, weather and planet.
Her writing probes the subtle inequities experienced by people who are nontraditional in any context, micro-affirmations, conflicts of interest, and other classic workplace problems.
(An exception is his affirmation that he "believes in the laws of arithmetic," a none-too-subtle rejection of the Bush ideology that championed deficit-spawning tax cuts).
First comes perceptual affirmation.
