Example sentences of "attitude to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got the right attitude to life , Dorothy . |
| 2 | It is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and a common attitude to life , far more than to any uniformity of physical type . |
| 3 | Isolation and wilderness travel require a special attitude to life . |
| 4 | Frankly , I believe that It begins in an attitude to life which is almost mystical , if not religious , in its orientation and approach . |
| 5 | Their humour did not consist of mere jokes ( though they could make those too ) but in their whole attitude to life , as the violin runs through the Benedictus of the Missa Solemnis like a golden thread from which all else rises and falls ; an unforced humour which has known tragedy , and learnt to surmount it . |
| 6 | Your attitude to life should be far more positive and your self-esteem justifiably high . |
| 7 | In fact pekingeses have a much more robust and independent attitude to life than many young people . |
| 8 | In a broader sense , people with a calm , positive and compassionate attitude to life are perhaps better equipped to help solve the many ecological , social and political problems facing the world today . |
| 9 | I wonder if it is because the prevailing attitude to life in the Eighties in Britain seems to be to look after number one , to get on , to make money , and not to bother about anyone else ? |
| 10 | She recognised him as a kindred spirit , with the same happy-go-lucky , questing attitude to life which she herself possessed . |
| 11 | If you have a positive attitude to life you will get there in the end . |
| 12 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 13 | Perhaps in societies where women in the extended family or tribe naturally spend a lot of time together , there is a healthier , more relaxed attitude to life . |
| 14 | I saw you last night , though you chose not to see me , and I can not understand your casual attitude to life . |
| 15 | Marryat 's common-sense attitude to life was certainly not insensitive . |
| 16 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 17 | My attitude to life is probably the same as most people 's . |
| 18 | It was partly her age , of course , she was an old woman by anyone 's standards , but her attitude to life too and her clothes , her grey tweed skirt and green Viyella blouse and green and grey check cardigan , her stockings and ‘ court ’ shoes , the powder on her nose , lipstick on her thin old lips and the perm in her hair . |
| 19 | Amongst transient communities of working men , with no obvious home situation , irreligion and blasphemy and a casual attitude to life were usual , and in such circumstances what was termed sexual ‘ promiscuity ’ was rife , as for example amongst sailors , railway navvies , residents of common lodging houses and the like . |
| 20 | But he was also a man whose attitude to life amused , astonished and alarmed his contemporaries . |
| 21 | He said that since he was seven he had kept that childlike outlook and attitude to life and this had enabled him to paint and compose . |
| 22 | Though Sparkes was game for his first homosexual experience , his thick Yorkshire accent and humorous attitude to life left Minton undone with laughter and not very much happened . |
| 23 | Their attitude to life was not unlike Henry 's , he thought . |
| 24 | Professional actors can suggest a character 's background and attitude to life in very subtle ways , whereas amateur actors are often just vehicles for the language . |
| 25 | All this business , it 's bound up with my bossy attitude to life . |
| 26 | Throughout his life Charles Garrett has remained a God- fearing man with a strongly held yet straightforward attitude to life . |
| 27 | In Schorske 's words , only in Austria was aestheticism ‘ not a form of protest versus bourgeois civilization ’ but ‘ an expression of that civilization , an affirmation of an attitude to life in which neither ethical nor social ideals played a dominant part ’ . |
| 28 | His attitude to life had changed during this time . |
| 29 | The sheer scale of the country , its unpredictability , its generally unstructured attitude to life seemed to call everything she knew into question , turning her inward to the family for security and , for a social life , to other Lebanese who shared her sense of exile . |
| 30 | Polybius could not have written his history as he did if he had not found in Rome an aristocracy which he could instinctively understand because he shared its attitude to life . |