When people compare and then feel depressed and demoralized, it's often stemming from a belief that you're not good enough, and you're always on the hunt for validation of that belief.
For Orwell it provided a spectacular validation of his belief in democratic socialism, while definitively undermining his constitution.
"I was told how the receipt of money for vigango was a perfect validation of their belief in the powers of these important ancestor spirits," Mr. Wolfe said.
In an unusual validation of her belief that spaces retain human history, she was recently told by a visitor to the museum that the room must have been part of a house occupied by relatives of Rod Stewart.
But if you view something that's technically optional as socially essential, you have to accept responsibility for the validation of that belief.
In an unusual validation of her belief that spaces retain human history, she was recently told by a visitor to the museum that the room must have been part of a house occupied by relatives of Rod Stewart.
A debate erupted between those who saw the Stanford study as validation of their belief that organic food is an expensive, pointless exercise and people who said the report ignored the main reasons they buy organic food and pay a premium: to avoid pesticides, for the health of farm workers and for environmental considerations.
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The academy can provide validation of those beliefs by simply including them in certain appropriate settings, or it can treat those beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant in ways tangible and intangible.
For many Santorum supporters in the crowd, his strong showing was a validation of their beliefs.
"It would be a validation of the beliefs that our families had for the last 50 years, and it would be some sort of God's justice".
