Sentence examples for to be affirming from inspiring English sources
verb
To exist; to have real existence.
I wanted this show to be affirming".
Despite intimations of "Darkness Absolute," of universal nothingness, Mallarmé saw himself to be affirming truths rather than negating them.
This is a question that seems to be affirming a greater degree of freedom of the will than would appear possible were there not some outside, uncaused intervener in the causal flow.
Given that many Buddhists in India, Tibet and East Asia have understood the Yogācāra to be affirming the ultimate reality of the mental, the denial of such a view on Vasubandhu's behalf is an important and useful corrective.
"It is not a mandate that every church has to be affirming," Davis said.
In this way they are meant to be affirming and comforting, grounding or inspiring: Hey, I'm not alone..
He hopes for that period to be affirmed and revitalized.
The president has asserted that gay parenting is something to be affirmed, rather than denigrated.
In the informal economy, where banks fear to tread, caste bonds tend to be affirmed through business.
They want to be affirmed in all the things that television usually affirms: being larger than life, the action, the adventure, the nonsense.
And there would be important public relations benefits for the president to be affirmed on his most ambitious agenda item by a decidedly conservative court.
