Attitudes

Examples

• The group that stood in various attitudes, after this communication, were worthy of a painter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But this only means that they are, as compared with some other attitudes, central:--that they carry other attitudes with them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Such a conception contradicts our basic idea that character and mind are attitudes of participative response in social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The required beliefs cannot be hammered in; the needed attitudes cannot be plastered on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They developed mental dispositions and traditions and attitudes of thought one to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such a separation could exist only if the personal attitudes ran their course in a world by themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Some attitudes may be named, however,-which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• All this means an accentuation of consciousness; it means a turning in upon the individual's own attitudes, powers, wishes, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Their former attitudes and their former silence were once more first encroached upon by Pancks. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And the attitudes which spring from getting used to and accepting half-understood and ill-digested material weaken vigor and efficiency of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Only the attitudes are certain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Julia's attitudes, though graceful, were studied and luxurious; but always modest and effeminate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He snatched at a premature popularity by outdoing his father's patriotic and aggressive attitudes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was not Lily's fault if Mrs. Dorset's complicated attitudes did not fall in with the Duchess's easy gait. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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