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Attitude

noun

A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways. Synonym: mental attitude.

The arrangement of the body and its limbs. Synonyms: position, posture.

A theatrical pose created for effect.

Position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion).

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"Attitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... a picture of the day of judgment by Tintoretto. In this picture both Paradise and Hell were portrayed. I saw in Paradise a lovely woman glowing with youth, beauty, and grace. She was reclining in a most enchanting attitude, upon a bed of roses, and surrounded by angels. Below, on the other half of the picture— that is to say, in Hell—I saw the same woman; she had no couch of roses, but was stretched upon a glowing gridiron; no smiling angels surrounded her, but a hideous, grinning devil tore her ...

— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach

... right which he had to be considered as a sovereign prince; he was, he said, three months before, as much Emperor of Elba as Louis was King of France, and, by invading another monarch's dominions, could not have forfeited his own rank as a monarch. He next adverted to the ignoble attitude in which England would place herself in the eyes of the world by abusing his confidence—hinted that either his father-in-law or the Czar would have treated him far differently—and concluded by expressing his belief that the climate and confinement of St. Helena would kill him, and his resolution, ...

— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart

... man, on the other hand, is a fatuous spendthrift of his fortune. He reminds us how close we are of kin to the frolicsome chimpanzee. His attitude was expressed on election night by a young man of Manhattan who shouted hoarsely to ...

— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

... Something in his boyish attitude and in his entire loss of self-control touched Ruth strangely. She knew he was five or six years her senior, but at the moment she felt as if she were much older than he, and a sudden vague wish passed through her mind that he had ...

— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley

... meant. Beyond the fields was a bit of woodland, and in one corner of that you might, if your eyesight was good, discern here and there a glimpse of white. It was the old burying-ground of Goshen church; and I knew by the strained attitude and intent gaze of the watcher in the door that somewhere in the sunlit space between Aunt Jane's door-step and the little country graveyard, the souls of the living and the dead were keeping ...

— Aunt Jane of Kentucky • Eliza Calvert Hall

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