What's the difference between attitude and obeisance?

Attitude


Definition:

  • (n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
  • (n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.
  • (n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (2) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
  • (3) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
  • (4) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
  • (5) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
  • (6) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (7) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
  • (8) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
  • (9) In doing so they are often supported by their parents who as well assume an ambivalent attitude towards therapy.
  • (10) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
  • (11) The attitude towards drug trials was negative in 79% of the personnel, in contrast to 71% positive in three Swedish mental hospitals.
  • (12) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
  • (13) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
  • (14) None of the male students' sexual behaviors were related strongly to parent sexual attitudes.
  • (15) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (16) Furthermore, relatives in the activation group showed a more positive attitude to the care than those in the comparison group.
  • (17) It was possible to achieve this very clear result although a strong aversion to animal experiments and a critical attitude toward biological research exist in Switzerland, as well as in other European countries.
  • (18) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
  • (19) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
  • (20) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.

Obeisance


Definition:

  • (n.) Obedience.
  • (n.) A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kim can be expected to continue to pay obeisance to North Korea’s original governing concept of juche , self-reliance.
  • (2) He used to sit in the bath shrinking his jeans.” On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians would now offer obeisance to pop stars.
  • (3) Many guests were the Queen's "kissing cousins", which happily dispensed with protocol over who should pay obeisance to whom.
  • (4) It’s a way for them to pay obeisance to the NRA without changing the world as it is.” Texas senator John Cornyn, the author of the Republican alternative to the FBI watch list bill, took issue with Schumer’s characterization, deeming it “incredibly ignorant”.
  • (5) Blair’s obeisance to corporate power enabled the vicious and destructive policies the coalition now pursues .
  • (6) Fox Business Network has been spared having to abide by the Ginsberg demands, partly perhaps because of the strong obeisance shown by senior Republicans towards Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network.
  • (7) The industry makes obeisances to the ideals of “diversity” and “representation”, but many at the sharp end of abuse argue that it has so far done little to help them or to learn from their experiences.
  • (8) Both Blair and Brown abased themselves by being so obeisant to the Australian, sorry, American, godfather; but Brown, under the beneficent, and crucial, influence of Ed Balls, resisted the siren voices calling upon him to sign up for the single currency quite independently of Murdoch's propaganda.
  • (9) This obeisance to a symbol has all but destroyed the US anti-war movement – Obama's singular achievement.
  • (10) Not yet, though it has its rituals – attendees of the conferences check their cynicism in at the door; standing ovations at TED seem, at times, like mandatory acts of obeisance rather than spontaneous moments of appreciation – and it's not far off De Botton's description of the Catholic church: "collaborative, multinational, branded and highly disciplined".
  • (11) And note, more lightly, with due obeisance to the cab-rank principle, that Hunt's QC, whose arguments were said by the judge to have a "too-narrow view of the public interest", was Hugh Tomlinson, chairman and silkiest silk of Hacked Off .

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