Word Finder - attitudes

definition

The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.

example

The ballet dancer walked with a graceful attitude.

synonyms

• posture
• stance

definition

Disposition or state of mind.

example

Don't give me your negative attitude.

definition

The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.

example

The airliner had to land with a nose-up attitude after the incident.

synonyms

• orientation
• trim

definition

A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.

There is, it is true, a smoothness and finish about them not often seen elsewhere; but, as though to avoid the exaggerations of Audubon, Gould usually adopted the tamest of attitudes in which to represent his subjects, whereby expression as well as vivacity is wanting.

As has already been indicated, it was in their religious attitudes that the essential difference lay between the Sassanid Empire and the older Iranian states.

The first is the "Adam and Eve" dated 1507, in which both attitudes and proportions are as carefully calculated, though on a somewhat different scheme, as in the engraving of 1504.

Something of the imposing unity of his work was also, no doubt, due to an extraordinary power of memory, which enabled Millet to paint (like Horace Vernet) without a model; he could recall with precision the smallest details of attitudes or gestures which he proposed to represent.

The relationship of Talmudism to the Old Testament has been likened to that of Christian theology to the Gospels; the comparison, whether fitting or not, may at least enable one to understand the varying attitudes of Jewish thinkers to their ancient sources.

It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men.

By the patient study of the behaviour of precocious young birds, such as chicks, pheasants, ducklings and moorhens, it can be readily ascertained that such modes of activity as running, swimming, diving, preening the down, scratching the ground, pecking at small objects, with the characteristic attitudes expressive of fear and anger, are so far instinctive as to be definite on their first occurrence - they do not require to be learnt.

In the settlement of labour disputes conciliatory methods were successful in the formative period, when the parties to disputes adopted customary attitudes of hostility and fought to the end unless they were reconciled by the Board to a final agreement or to an agreement to arbitrate.

This would be so if people acted independently and without guidance, but actually they are sometimes misled by published advice and movements in the market intended to deceive them, and, even when they are not, they watch each other's attitudes and tend to act as a crowd.

The extent to which these two attitudes have been combined or separated is discussed in the ensuing article which deals with the various schools of modern metaphysics in relation to the principles of the Aristotelian " first philosophy."

An overwhelming naturalism swamped the older reserves of Egyptian art, and the expression of the postures, actions and familiarities of daily life, or the instantaneous attitudes of animals, became the dernier cri of fashion.

The John and Paul are conceived and executed really in the great style, with a commanding nobility and force alike in the character of the heads, the attitudes, and the sweep of draperies; they represent the highest achievement of early German art in painting.

It treats of the attitudes of consciousness towards reality under the six heads of consciousness, self-consciousness, reason (Vernunft), spirit (Geist), religion and absolute knowledge.

The first of these attitudes taken alone is dogmatism; the second, when similarly isolated, is scepticism; the third, when unexplained by its elements, is mysticism.

To be categorical, a judgment does not require a belief in existence, but only that something, existent or not, is (or is not) determined; and there are two quite different attitudes of mind even to a non-existent thing, such as a square circle, namely, unconditional and conditional belief.

I cannot stand people with sassy attitudes.

But two individuals exemplify the different attitudes which the nation adopted towards its new environment and its wider opportunities, Joseph the tax-farmer and Jesus the sage.

We constantly see him in the wall-paintings portrayed as a priest in the conventional attitudes before the images of the gods.

In such work the painters of Upper Germany at this time, working in the spirit of the late Gothic style just before the dawn of the Renaissance, show considerable technical attainments, with a love of quaint costumes and rich draperies crumpled in complicated angular folds, some feeling for romance in landscape backgrounds, none at all for clearness or balance in composition, and in the attitudes and expressions of their overcrowded figures a degree of grotesqueness and exaggeration amounting often to undesigned caricature.

There are people who harbor attitudes about models, particularly wild string bikini models, that are dangerous and can get you into difficult situations.

It led to a certain ambivalence in their attitudes toward the organized labor movement, despite their commitment to greater economic equality.

Equality mainstreaming occurs when these ideas, attitudes or activities routinely incorporate an equality perspective and become a normal feature of mainstream thinking.

We are given a final adjuration to change our attitudes in chapter twelve.

Such attitudes have been reflected in the predominantly ' common sense ' explanations of pit alignments to date.

He didn't simply hope to foster public attitudes toward indigenous peoples that would be the basis for a multi-cultural society based on mutual respect.

They are planning a new campaign aimed at children to try to change attitudes toward violence in the home.

However some negative attitudes have also been reported in previous studies.

Itâs peopleâs attitudes, and I was exactly the same before Adam got ill.

I also found that other friends who were pregnant had what appeared to be very carefree attitudes throughout their pregnancies.

They seem careless in their attitudes to people infected or affected by HIV.

Consumers tend to buy attitudes, based on belief and instinct, and are increasingly discerning in their choices.

Gillett makes helpful observations in this chapter on the complex set of attitudes surrounding the operatic diva.

The speed at which the range has diversified reveals a major shift in attitudes toward Fairtrade.

These are attitudes engrained in many sections of Indian society.

He took up aerobatics in 1994 originally to overcome a fear of flying in extreme attitudes.

What do such hopes tell us about our attitudes to mortality and our attitudes to human finitude?

Moreover, the small numbers of workers in these areas were often Russians deeply imbued with colonial attitudes.

As a result of these new attitudes to language development there is an emerging research impetus in linguistics which concerns itself with recent change.

The difficult subject of child mortality and attitudes to it are discussed, using evidence that is inevitably incomplete.

These can be deeply ingrained and sometimes lifelong inflexible attitudes and behaviors.

We have experienced a breakdown in societal attitudes concerning the practicality of staying married throughout the mutual lifetime of a couple.

It would be worthwhile to explore how group members ' differing attitudes toward one or more topics or ideas might affect social mitosis.

Different attitudes to what happened after death, including systems of eternal reward and punishment; belief in eternal nothingness; and ghosts.

Her specialist interests include medieval hospitals and religious and social attitudes to charity and the poor, and lay women's piety.

Having examined attitudes to contact, we now turn to attitudes to cultural pluralism.

I want to make a difference, play my part in changing attitudes and challenging preconceptions.

Increasingly, the attitudes of male professionalism have seemed outrageously at odds with a supposedly caring profession.

Amidst these good girls, we run a gamut of attitudes toward their male protagonists.

The stress now no longer falls on the observation of basic morality and the cultivation of wholesome attitudes as a means to higher rebirths.

It ignores cases where subordinate minorities may develop a negative self-concept together with positive attitudes toward the dominant group.