I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.
Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.
Or that she probably, given her attitude toward Spotify, wants more money than that per stream if she has to let me do it?
Oddly enough, many who hold this “not like us” attitude are religious people.
Let us realize the importance of the attitude in which we stand before the world.
He was in doubt as to the attitude he had better assume to Will and Ted.
It is expressed in conduct, of course; but conduct may fail while the attitude can remain constant.
Their common decency in attitude toward the other sex was the unique bond of union.
In the instant of reply, Dick Gilder, by some inspiration of love, changed his attitude.
1660s, via French attitude (17c.), from Italian attitudine "disposition, posture," also "aptness, promptitude," from Late Latin aptitudinem (nominative aptitudo; see aptitude). Originally 17c. a technical term in art for the posture of a figure in a statue or painting; later generalized to "a posture of the body supposed to imply some mental state" (1725). Sense of "settled behavior reflecting feeling or opinion" is first recorded 1837. Connotations of "antagonistic and uncooperative" developed by 1962 in slang.
attitude at·ti·tude (āt'ĭ-tōōd', -tyōōd')
n.
The position of the body and limbs; posture.
A manner of acting.
A relatively stable and enduring predisposition to behave or react in a characteristic way.
