Adaptive attitude (n.) is the tendency to take on the same attitudes as the people we spend time with.
An Adaptive attitude (n.) is changing your stance so the room doesn't have to.
Adaptive attitude (n.) is the tendency develop the same attitudes as people we associate with.
An Aesthetic attitude (n.) toward one's images, merely perceiving and shaping them, is far easier than passing to an attitude of judgment that is morally and intellectually binding, where many capable patients stall.
An Aesthetic attitude (n.) turns a problem into a picture one can contemplate at ease, re-living its passions at a safe distance — a guard against any real participation, which a religious understanding would demand.
Anti-Americanism (n.) was the charge the United Nations earned the moment it stopped being Washington's instrument.
Anti-Americanism (n.) is the label for anyone in the world who does not share the picture of the US as benign victim — which settles the matter by dismissal.
Anti-Americanism (n.) as an accusation would be laughed at in Rome if aimed at a critic of Berlusconi as "anti-Italian" — though it might have passed under Mussolini.
Anti-Americanism (n.) is a charge borrowed from the lexicon of totalitarianism, treating a critic of the state as a hater of the country and its people.
Anti-intellectualism (n.) is bred less by anxiety than by the stalemate and paralysis of purely intelligent action.
Anti-intellectualism (n.) is often just depoliticization; being concerned with the world is not especially intellectual — Salvadoran peasants are.
Anti-intellectualism (n.) reads just enough to prove it didn't need to.
Anti-intellectualism (n.) is happy to take the medicine and furious at whoever invented it.