It is the most invalidating thing you can do to a person and validation of self is something one should never have to ask for more than once.
And, yes, for a time that carried him through an exhilarating 2009 postseason that promised to be personal vindication and career validation, Rodriguez largely stanched the flow of "something".
But this can be done in a way that doesn't imply equal validation of those inciting and opposing something like sexual assault.
Later, husbands confided that they sought validation of their genuine concern that "something was not quite right".
The selection of Mr. Vance, 55, represents something of a validation of the Morgenthau era.
National Review, one of the leading magazines of the conservative movement, posted an editorial on its Web site Thursday that served as something of a validation of Mr. Kerry's political judgment in picking Mr. Edwards.
He said he viewed the Army contract "more as a validation of its technology as opposed to something that's going to make it into a phenomenally successful company".
But rather than just a bigger and better spectacle, Griffith's methods yield something like a validation of Pastrone's avant-garde countrymen, the Futurists.
A paper in Science, Nature or Cell was an intellectual currency that provided external validation of an enterprise's R&D effort, something that could attract investors.
