Example sentences of "attitude to life " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jessamy had been as overwhelmed as he had been , dazzled by the physical passion , and amazed that her own easygoing , relaxed attitude to life could be turned upside down by this one man . |
| 32 | Rune was made of sterner stuff , possessing an iron will and sense of purpose and duty that in comparison left Marcus 's attitude to life looking lightweight and immature . |
| 33 | Her sturdy common sense , the downright attitude to life which never ceased to surprise him , the constant loving references to a papa and a mama who sounded remarkably practical themselves , even if they had spoiled their beautiful daughter , informed him that she came from a background very unlike any that Dr Neil had ever encountered . |
| 34 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 35 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 36 | This has greatly encouraged a utilitarian attitude to life , and inflated the notion that human beings are the measure of all things . |
| 37 | More often the impact of dogmatically held relativism on other people is to cause them to waver , feel uncertain and drift into what they feel they can be sure about — mostly in Western society a materialist attitude to life , or perhaps pursuing a lifestance which thinks it has avoided value judgements . |
| 38 | At the same time a quite different attitude to life is being constantly reinforced which ignores such questions and focuses on what is useful or factual or enjoyable . |
| 39 | Fran sat back in the seat , staring unseeingly out of the window , wondering why she should feel the most ridiculous urge to cry at such evidence of Luke Calder 's attitude to life . |
| 40 | That was his attitude to life . |
| 41 | His attitude to life is brought out in both the mutual greeting of friends who agree that Life Is Very Interesting ( 1980 ) as well as the personal philosophy of the Lonely Man Who Is Very Happy And Enjoying His Art Work ( 1974 ) . |
| 42 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 43 | and a he had the same unyielding attitude to life that Germans would have and a very bad temper . |
| 44 | Roddick is convinced her own schooling was also influential in forming her attitudes to life and the business world . |
| 45 | To quote that well-known politician again , I am not interested in ‘ airy-fairy ’ solutions ; but I am interested in promoting responsible attitudes to life . |
| 46 | The impact of religious belief on the attitudes to life of older people is particularly strong . |
| 47 | By this he meant that many people want to cure a particular problem , or to understand themselves more fully , yet do not want to change their way of moving and , especially , their mental attitudes to life . |
| 48 | This is not to say that only poetry with ‘ positive attitudes to life ’ is acceptable , since anyone who has thought about the representation of evil in literature , whether in satire or tragedy or in the novel , will know that an apparently negative attitude can be in fact profoundly positive . |
| 49 | In both novels the heroine undertakes a search for her identity that requires her to navigate between the attractions of two men who represent two different attitudes to life . |
| 50 | The show was very much about young people and their attitudes to life . |
| 51 | Each section contains Pip 's different attitudes to life . |
| 52 | Each of these sections end with a couple of sentences which sum up the consequences of Pip 's attitudes to life in that particular section . |