Nodding in affirmation, Ex led her away from the pack and into the group of bodies writhing on the dance floor. |
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Their observation affords both entertainment and an affirmation of their superior restraint and breeding. |
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He is too timid and vacillating about his own faith to offer an untrammeled affirmation of it. |
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It is also an affirmation of his skills as an experienced organiser and motivator. |
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The nun's words were punctuated silently by her sisters' nods of affirmation. |
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For them, Birthright was a powerful, emotional affirmation of everything they already believed. |
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Pledging my affirmation to Australia is probably one of the most mature things I've ever done. |
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And they need the affirmation from relationships with parents and other adults. |
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By blogging, I can leap beyond this place and get affirmation for saying things that would only otherwise have gotten me glares and shunning. |
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It's really a great affirmation to get that level of feedback on a person-to-person basis. |
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Readers might be looking for entertainment, information, affirmation or help. |
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Readers will experience the love and reverence Walter Mosley has crafted into this encouragement affirmation of all humanity. |
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The problem occurs when we demand affirmation regardless of whether it's called for. |
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But I want the human touch, the human affirmation, the human truth of real love. |
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For these boys the organisation had already become a support group, a place of refuge, a source of affirmation in their journey to adulthood. |
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This also makes them ideal for artists or art students seeking inspiration or affirmation. |
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As old as I am, anything positive as in a positive affirmation from my father means so much to me. |
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Maintaining clarity of thought and affirmation of purpose required constant effort. |
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As her correspondence indicates, Hurston consulted with Boas frequently, seeking his advice and affirmation. |
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The best salespeople, meanwhile, were impatient and aggressive, and needed a lot of affirmation and encouragement. |
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Hardly had I driven it down the road than it attracted waves and nods of affirmation from pedestrians and drivers alike. |
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But the orienting theme throughout the Mosaic canon is life and its blessings, the affirmation of personhood. |
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Until you awaken this feeling, you should not expect the affirmation to work. |
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In both cases, testimony functions as a public affirmation of participation in the church community. |
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Hardly had I driven the car down the road than it attracted waves and nods of affirmation from pedestrians and drivers alike. |
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The public refuses its masochistic role as philistine, seeking affirmation instead in an art of generosity and pleasure. |
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She said the allocation of R500m was a positive affirmation of the role teachers played in the community. |
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Girls feel enhanced by continuous social affirmation while boys feel diminished. |
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By using an affirmation, you are attempting to shift yourself so that you can do or be something even though your mind doesn't accept it yet. |
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Balfour deconstructs Coleridge's affirmation of the symbol and symbolic politics by pointing to the allegorical style of his political rhetoric. |
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It is easy to explain away not receiving parental affirmation or to put off admitting the obvious in our lives. |
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This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him. |
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Exposing students to old tribal masks is an affirmation of a living artistic path to which children continue to discover contemporary extensions. |
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In today's baptismal service, all who are present are invited to participate in the creedal affirmation of faith. |
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Joan of Arc, I believe, was a revolutionary leader whose tragic end is a further affirmation of the fundamentality of the causes she championed. |
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And the affirmation of life is what we had all been gasping for in an effort to regain the totality of our humanity. |
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Take 20 minutes a day to exfoliate, moisturise, and listen to a meditation CD for positive affirmation. |
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It's truly a euphoric piece, supplanting the vocalists' rage and rediverting it to become almost an affirmation of life. |
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Each person is seen as trapped within his or her own private bubble, in constant need of affirmation and recognition. |
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In a stunning affirmation of the artistic impulse, they made beauty out of abjection, and that, at least, is a triumph. |
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In their political and personalised affirmation of Aboriginality, they challenge and detach themselves from the European historical narrative. |
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The jeweler's simultaneous affirmation and repudiation of Jewishness collapses the binary into the same. |
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What might seem like skepticism ends up as affirmation because of the poet's commitment to honesty. |
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The other guard nodded in affirmation and began to head down towards the bathroom. |
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I think the point is that the youth is in a situation in which the symbols of courage and affirmation have inevitably become twisted. |
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He looked inquisitively at his future sister-in-law and she nodded in affirmation. |
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Friends usually do have something to gain from each other, be it companionship or affirmation of existence. |
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They did this in various ways, an example being the investment in university education and the social affirmation that went with it. |
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The most difficult young people are often the most damaged young people, the most in need of affirmation and support and love. |
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An enormous impetus behind this interest was the kind of parental affirmation that it received. |
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Trying to bring her own emotions back under control, she nodded her head in affirmation. |
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The girl was silent for a moment, then she nodded, grunting in affirmation. |
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Human life should be a search for meaning, but meaning only comes through affirmation. |
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The constant affirmation throughout the play is keeping the lines of communication open. |
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Cinema offers simultaneous affirmation and dissolution of the binary oppositions upon which our most fundamental notions of self and other are based. |
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If the client has a problem with the shortness of the cable you offer, respond with the affirmation that you understand they are looking for a longer one. |
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In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the dance of life, an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. |
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And so the Catechism makes that profound missiological affirmation. |
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It has also been a period of greater affirmation of human consciousness. |
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Still, for people to be so interested in you that your cellulite, bad-hair days and flabby stomach become a topic of conversation is affirmation of a sort. |
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I nod in affirmation, holding my breath, expecting the world to wobble off of its axis for a second because of the profoundness of what I have just admitted. |
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Both groups emphasized prosocial behavior and need for affirmation. |
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The officers nodded in affirmation and pulled out their guns. |
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Leigh nodded in affirmation and made his way back to the car. |
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I have long thought that Levine's negations and denials were in fact forms of affirmation and acceptance, ways of warding off sentimentality and bad faith. |
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The gangster is also often portrayed as a self-made man rising above his station, another affirmation of the spirit of free enterprise for the audience to clasp. |
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Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield examines the negative connotation of the phrase and turns it into an affirmation. |
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The man did not seem to expect such an affirmation and he appeared to be suddenly drained of his fury. |
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I was just so toxically addicted to affirmation I would do anything to get it. |
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It might be the most powerful affirmation, and perhaps even a feminist or political statement, from any public person this year. |
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Maybe I need some of that positive affirmation, brothers and sisters. |
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Perhaps we might also ask whether he will take an oath or make an affirmation in respect of those matters of fact which he is going to put before us. |
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Are you prepared to take the oath, or will you make an affirmation? |
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The Kaddish prayer, recited after the death of a close relative, is not a prayer for the dead, but rather an affirmation that life is gorgeous, beautiful, fantastic. |
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In Literary Theory and the Claims of History, Satya Mohanty posits a hermeneutics of affirmation in contrast to Jacques Derrida's hermeneutics of negation. |
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Go with the to and fro flow through the rhythms of urbanity, through the too-human rhythms of love and loss, through the rhythms of responsible affirmation or negation. |
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The decision was an unlikely affirmation of the democratic ideals Nehru had so tirelessly promoted. |
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The document has not been cast as a statement under oath or as a solemn affirmation or made in a similar manner as to bind the conscience of the author of the document. |
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Apophasis transcends both affirmation and negation, refuting in both any possible attainment of understanding beyond the limitation of conceptual analysis. |
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The apophatic dimension is well taken, but what I missed here was affirmation of what is actually given in the apostolic faith and discussion of the limits of diversity. |
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What I am addicted to is affirmation and validation from women. |
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Father hunger is the deep, but often unconscious, longing young men, and even older men, have for affirmation from male authority figures. |
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While jurors voted on oath or affirmation, a Lord could vote upon his honour. |
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Mary is thus called the 'Theotokos' or 'Bogoroditsa' as an affirmation of the divinity of the one to whom she gave birth. |
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Charles recognised Chilperic as king of the Franks in return for legitimate royal affirmation of his own mayoralty over all the kingdoms. |
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A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to give an affirmation instead. |
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The church has also endorsed an LGBT film meant to encourage support and affirmation for LGBT people. |
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Until the oath or affirmation is taken, an MP may not receive a salary, take their seat, speak in debates or vote. |
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The Principal Clerk of the Table Office at the despatch box offers a choice of affirmation or oath cards to read. |
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Still, the ideal solution, I think, would be to render unto Caesar an affirmation of flag and country but to keep God in our hearts. |
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This book is apparently meant as an affirmation of that claim. |
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Sull presents new thoughts on disciplining children, focusing on affirmation instead of strictly punishment. |
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Social historians took eagerly to the affirmation of historicity and the injunction to attend to child-rearing. |
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On affirmation of method of seed germinative capacity analysis. |
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The opposite of acedia is not hard work but cheerful affirmation. |
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Not all theologians with liberal inclinations reject the possibility of miracles, but many reject the polemicism that denial or affirmation entails. |
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However, in both of those cases, an affirmation can usually be replaced with a written statement, only if the author swears the statement is true. |
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The Anabaptist tradition was largely ostracized by the other Protestant parties at the time, but has achieved a measure of affirmation in more recent history. |
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Of the three opinions,, under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis. |
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