Use attitude in a sentence
Sentences ending with attitude
- But she was wonderfully beautiful, in spite of her paleness, her downcast eyelashes and languid attitude. [10]
- And the private watchman whom Hodder sometimes met in the darkness, and who invariably scrutinized pedestrians on Park Street, seemed symbolic, of this attitude. [9]
- Dick contemplated him very long in this attitude. [6]
- There was something vaguely ominous in his attitude. [9]
- It was not until I had walked the length of the block that I began to realize what a shock my presence there must have been to him, with his head full of the contrast between this visit and my former attitude. [9]
- Ramballe emptied his too, again pressed Pierre's hand, and leaned his elbows on the table in a pensive attitude. [2]
- It was plain to me, even now, that he did not comprehend the Celebrity's attitude. [9]
- She was striving to grasp the momentous and unlooked-for fact of her friend's unchanged attitude. [9]
- So she had to assume a merely kind and comforting attitude. [11]
- To an observer this admirable woman seemed to be on the defensive--her most alluring attitude. [4]
Short sentences using attitude
- I don't prefer that attitude. [5]
- Your attitude is fixed--directed. [9]
- What is his attitude, George? [9]
- But this attitude astonished me. [9]
Sentences containing attitude two or more times
- Our attitude toward them is precisely our attitude toward the Mexican People. [9]
- The remedy lies in a changed attitude of the employee and the citizen toward government, and the fact that such an attitude is now developing is not subject to absolute proof. [9]
- I said nothing, but I saw my opportunity: I had the clew, now, to a certain attitude he had adopted of late toward me, an attitude of reproach; as though, in return for his many favours to me, there were something I had left undone. [9]
- Wherever one saw a person, that person had stopped what he was doing, and was in a waiting attitude, a listening attitude. [5]
More example sentences with the word attitude in them
- I thought my young friend's attitude was a little too much like that of the Muggletonians. [6]
- I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
- She had not yet learned to use the word patronize in the social sense, and she was at a loss to describe the attitude of Mrs. Duncan and her daughter, though her instinct had registered it. [9]
- As the evening wore on, he was more and more aware of an uncompromising attitude in his young hostess, whom he had seen whispering to various young ladies from behind her fan as they passed her. [9]
- I used to wonder if, in the Brandon attitude of mind at this period, there were not just a little envy of such unclouded prosperity. [4]
- He found him without much trouble in his usual attitude, occupying one of the chairs in the corridor. [9]
- To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
- Even Mrs. Waring, who resembled a Roman matron, with her wavy white hair parted in the middle and her gentle yet classic features, sighed secretly at times at the unyielding attitude of her husband, although admiring him for it. [9]
- But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. [5]
- Charley was wondering whether, after all, she would have the courage to keep her word, whether spiritual terror would surmount the moral attitude of honour. [11]
- The two men were standing by the window, facing one another, in an attitude that struck her as dramatic. [9]
- The minister's opinions well represented the attitude of his time. [9]
- At first she was ill disposed to answer any questions, but she soon felt that attitude would only do harm. [11]
- The young soldier was heartily welcomed by his friends of the merchant's family; but old Damia was a little uneasy at the attitude which he and Gorgo had taken up after their first greeting. [10]
- In truth I was at a loss to understand his attitude until the day in June my grandfather and I went to Carvel Hall. [9]
- Your attitude, your very words, proclaim your blindness to all that has happened you, your determination to carry out, so far as it is left to you, your own will. [9]
- I mixed it up rather too much; and so all that description of the attitude, as a key to the humbuggery of the article, was entirely lost, for nobody but me ever discovered and comprehended the peculiar and suggestive position of the petrified man's hands. [5]
- He could not understand the attitude, for Tarboe would scarcely have risked the thing out of mere bravado. [11]
- He could not understand Ian's attitude, and he distrusted. [11]
- But once or twice when he met Clarence Colfax at these houses he was aware of a decided change in the attitude of that young gentleman. [9]
- Presently he turned towards the East and stretched a robe upon the ground, and with stately beauty of gesture he spread out his hands, standing for a moment in the attitude of aspiration. [11]
- In their attitude toward him could still be felt both uncertainty as to who he might be--perhaps a very important person--and hostility as a result of their recent personal conflict with him. [2]
- His chivalric attitude toward certain ladies who appear in his adventures, must have been sufficiently amusing to his associates. [4]
- He found this too agitating to dwell upon, summoning, as it did, conjectures of the men she might have known; and it was perhaps natural, in view of her attitude, that he could only think of such a decision on her part as surrender. [9]
- A discussion as to whether or not his attitude is unpatriotic and selfish is futile. [9]
- I could afford to take a superior attitude in regard to one who was destined always to be dramatic. [9]
- It is interesting to note that for a time he laid aside his attitude of the dispassionate observer, and caught the general excitement. [4]
- The King seemed to hesitate--in fact, did hesitate; for he put out his hand and then stopped with it there in the air over the crown, the fingers in the attitude of taking hold of it. [5]
- The wax began to display in a much reduced scale the whole figure of the beautiful youth and in the very same attitude which the young Dionysus carried off by the pirates, had assumed the day before. [10]
- If I ventured to describe the attitude, there would be a fine howl--but there the Venus lies, for anybody to gloat over that wants to--and there she has a right to lie, for she is a work of art, and Art has its privileges. [5]
- If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl--but there the Venus lies, for anybody to gloat over that wants to--and there she has a right to lie, for she is a work of art, and Art has its privileges. [5]
- I have reason to believe that he doesn't sympathize with his wife in her attitude on this matter. [9]
- He was reduced to a beatific attitude of submission, for he knew that he had few odds with him now, and that he must live by virtue of new virtues. [11]
- Ever since that time the Rose of Sharon had taken the attitude of having washed her hands of responsibility for a course which must inevitably lead to ruin. [9]
- As he stood thus, worried, exasperated, and perplexed, the fact that there was in her attitude something ominous, dangerous, was slow to dawn on him. [9]
- Then did they throw themselves into one attitude, then into another, striking their swords on the ground, first on the right side, then on the left: at last at it they went with incredible ferocity. [4]
- Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind look or bad opinion from him," Rostov decided; and sorrowfully and with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. [2]
- Whenever we do this we are in a lying attitude, and our speech is cant; for none of us are reverent--in a meritorious way; deep down in our hearts we are all irreverent. [5]
- And he understood this not merely from the attitude of the court. [2]
- The virtue of this dictum lies not in dogma, but in an indomitable attitude of mind to which the world owes its every advance in civilization; quixotic, perhaps, but necessary to great accomplishment. [9]
- It is because this compels you to get down in an undignified attitude and make wild sweeps for them in the dark with the bootjack, and swear. [5]
- One effect of this change is an attitude on which reasonable considerations would seem to have no effect. [9]
- She lay in this attitude so long that Nun feared death had claimed her and, holding the medicine in his hand, listened to hear her breathing. [10]
- He stood in this attitude a short time, then let his arms fall, and said softly: "The dead must be forgiven. [10]
- He remained in this attitude a long time, then suddenly started up, threw his arms upward, and exclaimed, "Korner, I'll follow you! [10]
- He remained in this attitude a long time, then paced to and fro with forced calmness. [10]
- You seem to think there's something to be said for the workman's attitude, Dr. Jonathan. [9]
- From his attitude they might have been good friends who had not met for some time; nothing more. [11]
- Your action could then be decided by Krool's attitude and what he says. [11]
- Restraint fell upon them, brought about by the memory of the intimacy of their former meeting, further complicated on Hodder's part by his new attitude toward her father, and his finding her in the company, of all persons, of Mr. Bentley. [9]
- Their attitude and their rigidity counterfeited death. [5]
- They poured out their opinions most freely and frankly about the frosty attitude of the people who were present at that performance, and about the Boston newspapers for the position they had taken in regard to the matter. [5]
- And this was the very attitude that became her best. [2]
- Wood gives in the 'Student' (April 1870, p. 116) an excellent account of the attitude and habits of this bird during its courtship. [1]
- Natasha threw off the shawl from her shoulders, ran forward to face "Uncle," and setting her arms akimbo also made a motion with her shoulders and struck an attitude. [2]
- He looked in the same direction himself, and could not help being struck by her attitude and expression. [6]
- He therefore assumed the same attitude as had Mr. Flint, and forced the burden of explanation upon Austen, relying surely on the disinclination of his son to be specific. [9]
- That look, and the peculiarly set attitude of the body accompanying it, aroused in her a responsive sense of championship. [9]
- The attitude of the newspapers was new also. [5]
- He has read the letter, and says he accepts the resignation, as he will be glad to do with any other, which may be tendered, as this is, for the purpose of taking an attitude of hostility against him. [7]
- Yet, such is the inconsistency of human nature, I was now unable to contemplate this attitude with calmness. [9]
- Over him hovered the ghost of Washington in warning attitude, and in the background a troop of shadowy soldiers in Continental uniform were limping with shoeless, bandaged feet through a driving snow-storm. [5]
- The information that the flowers were for the daughter of the president of the Northeastern Railroads caused a visible quickening of the little florist's regard, an attitude which aroused a corresponding disgust and depression in Austen. [9]
- Mr. Ruskin is the bull that stands upon the track and threatens with annihilation the on-coming locomotive; and I think that any spectator who sees his menacing attitude and hears his roaring cannot but have fears for the locomotive. [4]
- The attitude of the body was not bad I should say--but the head, the face--Aye, the man who can mould such a likeness as that has his hand and eye guided by the holy spirits of art. [10]
- The attitude of the authorities gave the violent mutineers their opportunity. [11]
- That was scarcely the attitude, said the Chairman, he had expected. [9]
- I really think the attitude of the enemy's army in Pennsylvania presents us the best opportunity we have had since the war began. [7]
- It reflected accurately the attitude of her parents, particularly of her father. [9]
- It was not the attitude of a culprit. [9]
- I wonder if that's the attitude the Almighty intended His respectable creatures to take toward one another! [8]
- It is clear that your attitude has not changed since our last conversation. [9]
- But up to that time the man had not changed his attitude a hair. [5]
- In other words, that the whole attitude toward life should be changed, that life should appear a bright thing rather than a dark thing, that labour should be willing vicarious instead of forced and personal. [9]
- And Austen recognized that the justification of his attitude meant an arraignment of Victoria's father. [9]
- Nell could see that she raised her dark eyes to the face of her superior, and that their expression, and that of her whole attitude for the instant, was one of mute but most touching appeal against this ungenerous usage. [12]
- The attitude was that of one who sought the heat. [12]
- Smith's attitude was that of a priest who puts up for the worship of the vulgar an idol, which he knows is only a clay image stuffed with straw. [4]
- She had imagined that if ever she should meet Mr. King again, she should defend her course, and perhaps appear in his eyes in a very heroic attitude. [4]
- And the fact that his attitude toward her had been one of sympathy and friendliness rather than of disapproval, that his insight seemed to have fathomed her case, apprehended it in all but the details, was even more disturbing--yet vaguely consoling. [9]
- It struck me that he did not believe in his fellows as much as Morgan did; but I fancied that Margaret only saw in his attitude a tolerant knowledge of the world. [4]
- A suggestion of tenseness in her pose betraying an inner attitude of alertness, of defiance, conveyed to him sharply and deliciously once more the panther-like impression he had received when first, as a woman, she had come to his notice. [9]
- His attitude of sympathy did not change, but he managed to ask her, in a business-like tone which she welcomed:--"On what grounds? [9]
- The tall man sustained her with an attitude of infinite sympathy, and seemed to speak words of encouragement. [4]
- And while her suspicion of Hannah's anxiety troubled her, on the occasions when she thought of it, Lise's attitude disturbed her even more. [9]
- Such tranquil stupidity, such supernatural gravity, such self-righteousness, and such ineffable self-complacency as were in the countenance and attitude of that gray-bodied, dark-winged, bald-headed, and preposterously uncomely bird! [5]
- It tumbled in such a way as to establish itself in a picturesque attitude. [5]
- How odd, and strange, and grotesque every action, attitude, movement, gesture would be. [5]
- The redoubtable chief stood in menacing attitude, with his eighteen-foot spear poised; his warriors stood massed at his back, armed for battle, their faces eloquent with their long-cherished loathing for white men. [5]
- And Uncle Nicholas stood before them in a stern and threatening attitude. [2]
- The beautiful Armenian still sat motionless and in the same attitude, with her long lashes drooping as if she did not see or feel what the soldier was doing to her. [2]
- The economic and social significance of this tendency, the new attitude of the working classes, the ferment it is causing need not be dwelt upon here. [9]
- That he did so possibly led the author of his life to exhibit a somewhat hostile attitude towards his hero. [4]
- His attitude expressed so much arrogance and puerile, defiant, unruly audacity, that Cleopatra found it difficult to suppress an exclamation of disgust before she spoke. [10]
- There was a silent space while the two young ladies regarded him, softened by his haggard and dishevelled aspect, and perplexed by his attitude. [9]
- It was this silence and this attitude which proclaimed itself that angered Mr. Flint, yet made him warily conceal his anger and change his attack. [9]
- Wherever she went she was made conscious of a new attitude towards herself, a more understanding feeling. [11]
- But above all, she was cowed by the sudden change in Janet herself, by the attitude of steely determination eloquent of an animus persons of Lise's type are incapable of feeling, and which to them is therefore incomprehensible. [9]
- This attitude, which she perceived, amused Miss McDonald. [4]
- It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed--no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. [5]
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