The Beatles, for example, attracted people for their catchy melodies, teasing lyrics, cool attitudes, sense of musical adventure, political views, and by now even the memories they evoke.
But teasing out our attitudes about these topics is difficult, especially when we've grown up being told to stop asking questions and being kaukalaikiki (cheeky) or fiapoko (smart-mouth know-it-all).
Richard Avedon's fashion photography showed us how clothes can lend charisma and attitude to the wearer, by teasing out and emphasising the posture and silhouette of the body.
No strip tease, no attitude, no artifice.
This is a highly sensitive area and it could be that well designed, robust qualitative research is required to tease out parental attitudes is a more sensitive way than could be achieved using quantitative methods.
"The Indian woman was very importunate to be permitted to go, and was therefore indulged," wrote Captain Lewis, teasing posterity further about this peace ambassador with attitude.
The results suggest the following developmental progression: For ironic criticisms, speaker belief understanding emerges first, before understanding of speaker's intent to tease and speaker's attitude.
Each child was presented with ironic criticisms and ironic compliments in the context of short puppet shows and several aspects of comprehension were assessed: appreciation of the speaker's belief, speaker's intent to tease, and speaker's attitude.
The mouthpiece also teased Rio Tinto's fickle attitude as the debt-ridden miner which once praised Chinalco as its "white knight" when the Chinese national aluminium manufacturer offered a "helping hand" with $19.5 billion investment when both commodities prices and stock markets were at the bottom.
Guest had little interest in science fiction and was unenthusiastic about directing the film; he reluctantly took copies of Nigel Kneale's television scripts with him on holiday in Tangiers and only began reading them after being teased for his "ethereal" attitude by his wife, Yolande Donlan.
