Social/Cultural/Psychological Obstacles To Fasting Numerous attitudes make it difficult to fast or to provide moral support to friends or loved ones that are fasting.
Antony and Cleopatra assume their correct attitudes and (this prologue to Shakespeare successfully performed) proceed with their roles.
From America have come Mary Anderson, whose statuesque attitudesare well remembered; and, more recently, Ada Rehan, who gave us so modern and so alluring a Rosalind.
Below are the two exquisite boy angels, whose charming childish attitudes of rapture have always roused so much interest.
There it would squat for a few days, the picture of misery; its long neck lying along the ground in a limp, despondent manner, suggestive of the attitudes of seasick geese and ducks on the first day of a voyage.
Strangely enough, Baedeker has no mention of a female subject portrayed in the concert-room in all sorts of attitudes and in all sorts and no sort of costume.
For Turkish nationalist activities andattitudes during the war, see further I.
These varied attitudes toward Westernism are not parked off by groups or localities, they co-exist among the individuals of every class and every land in the East.
A man's attitudes to his fellow-men and to the movements of his time are, on the whole, determined more by his intellect than by his feeling.
The study of this theological monarch and of his severalattitudes is deeply instructive and of unfailing interest.
Back of them in the candle-lighted room, the motley crew of Baldpate's winter guests stood about in various attitudes of waiting.
In front of me, tier on tier, sit a hundred young men in various attitudes of inattention.
The inner world is expressed only so far as it is revealed in the gestures and attitudes of the bodies of men or so far as it is a mood attached to things and their colors and shapes.
It is evident that these two attitudes must sometimes come into open or secret conflict.
But we should not forget the figurines of terra cotta, a genre sculpture, representing men and women in the acts and attitudes of daily life, at work and at play.
Yet the dependence of beauty upon utility in the industrial arts is not at variance with the freedom from practical attitudes which we have claimed for it.
But lines suggest to us not only the movements, but also the attitudes of our bodies.
More important is the gradual diffusion of their attitudes and the enlightenment following their example.
The figures are not from the same drawings, for the attitudes are different, but the Chartres artist has at least remembered Canterbury choir, which was probably the work of his master, thirty or forty years earlier.
In the figures too, although the attitudes are conventional the drawing of drapery is less so, and towards the end of the period the artist is tentatively feeling his way towards modelling.
I am as sweet as a sugar-plum," said she to herself, going through her attitudes before the glass, exactly as a dancer practises her curtesies.
In his drawings of a group of robins, one misses some of the most characteristic poses of that bird, while some of the attitudes that are portrayed are not common and familiar ones.
Immediately the entire pack wheeled from retreat and took up defiant attitudes in the open, but this did not seem to trouble Scotch; he flung himself upon them with great ferocity, and finally drove them all back into the woods.
Some of the rams posed themselves on the rocks in heroic attitudes and looked serenely and watchfully around.
There are trifling, sneering attitudes even toward the whole of life; and in some men these attitudes are final and systematic.
Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map.
It would strain the ordinary use of language too much to call such attitudes religious, even though, from the point of view of an unbiased critical philosophy, they might conceivably be perfectly reasonable ways of looking upon life.
Originality cannot be expected in a field like this, where all the attitudes and tempers that are possible have been exhibited in literature long ago, and where any new writer can immediately be classed under a familiar head.
Let me now say a brief word more about the attitudes they characteristically awaken.
Total reactions are different from casual reactions, and total attitudes are different from usual or professional attitudes.
It was the best of furnishing in our eyes, and we hasted to squat round it in a circle, in attitudes of extreme devotion, for it was bitter cold.
The men cuddled behind the small embankment and sat in easy attitudes awaiting their turn.
They chased those that straggled and fumed at a few men who seemed to show by their attitudes that they had decided to remain at that spot.
In the regiment there was a peculiar kind of hesitation denoted in the attitudes of the men.
They settled back into reposeful attitudes with airs of having accepted the matter.
The great hall of the citadel was full of men, arranged in rows with their faces towards the south, going through the forms and attitudes of evening prayer under the guidance of a leader, and with the precision of a regiment on drill.
Then, they rounded a point of timber, and came upon a small party of men whose attitudes even in the dimming light conveyed a subtle suggestion of portent.
The body was twisted sidewise, in one of those grotesque attitudes with which a sudden summons so frequently robs the greatest phenomenon of all its rightful dignity.
This because of the diametrically opposite mental attitudes of the students of these two several lands.
If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitudes and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in, and then the things that you want will begin to come your way.
Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.
For it is mostly concerned with attacking attitudes which are in their nature accidental and incapable of enduring.
All their movements, attitudes and voices had such a droll element; all were so irresistibly funny that I wanted to lie down on my back and roar with laughter.
Their attitudes and motions are so unexpected and ridiculous.
A long line of judges, with heads of lions, hawks, or jackals, were awaiting in hieratic attitudes the result of the weighing before delivering judgment.
Delegations of priests and deputations of the chief inhabitants of Thebes crossed the parade ground to meet the Pharaoh, and drew up in double line in attitudes of the deepest respect so as to leave a free passage for the procession.
The others lay around him in curious piled attitudesas though they had dropped off to sleep in the midst of something.
He spent a good deal of the day wandering about Jackson Heights, contemplating such specimens of humanity as remained in the streets, fixed in the various ungraceful and unattractive attitudes of life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attitudes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
