This is an astonishingly self-affirming worldview.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Fright] Reference

But these self-affirming measures are necessary first steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Talk About Sex] Reference

Possibly, fewer men than women consider caregiving as a self-affirming role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Perspectives on Disability] Reference

In most instances, the classification serves a purely self-affirming purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Do Rich People Always Go to the Same Parties?: Jamie Johnson] Reference

What could be easier, and yet so intellectually self-affirming and fulfilling?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Peretz on the Cairo Speech:] Reference

All this happy do-gooder self-affirming nonsense is putting a dent in our bottom line!.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Yes, yes, yes — standing up in the face of change and embracing it is a self-affirming policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Month of Writers, Day Fourteen: Catherynne M. Valente « Whatever] Reference

For Hatcher, who had thought Stone would deny everything, the outcome was unexpectedly self-affirming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teri Hatcher's Desperate Hour] Reference

You can expect a good amount of positive and self-affirming discussion on the "Darwin = evolution = Hitler" thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

But these self-affirming measures are necessary first steps. for instance – i am a lover of the skirted bathing suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let’s Talk About Sex | Her Bad Mother] Reference

West had the masochist's subtle attachment to his failures, a recognition which is, in its fashion, somehow self-affirming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funny as a Crutch] Reference

Because it is uncompromising, because it is self-affirming in its peculiarity but still welcoming to anyone, it is appealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Scattered thoughts on a divided spiritual identity.] Reference

Others live next door to us, hiding their sins behind a cloud of public uprightness and a vibrant, self-affirming moral glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Commandments] Reference

His great ideals still remain obscure, his humane vision of humanity and for peaceful and self-affirming co-existence still denied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haiti's founding father - The women who influenced him, his ideals and legacy] Reference

Their weltanschauung is a tangle of conceptual binaries, self-affirming inferences, and prior assumptions that treat image as reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neo-Con Rage « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

He wanted a community that could enfold him and make him feel that he was part of something that was recognisable and self-affirming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daimnation!: Obamabelonging] Reference

If life can be reversed engineered so what we "see" can be rapidly produced, then it is a self-affirming design principle at this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are dem bunny prints?] Reference

At Their Best: Become self-affirming, trusting of self and others, independent yet symbiotically interdependent and cooperative as an equal.    From Wordnik.com.  [hemopoetic Diary Entry] Reference

No surprise that you seek out self-affirming liars elsewhere on the web.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Isolated, insulated, and self-affirming, they promulgated the idea that We Own the World.    From Wordnik.com.  [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference

Stonewall Riots marked the beginning of modern LGBT activism, the self-affirming phrase 'Gay.    From Wordnik.com.  [PrideSource - front] Reference

And if they happen to possess a little self-affirming lore, they will be all the more legendary.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

There is something self-affirming, something that underscores dignity, when a person earns his or her own way.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And for those who can somehow eke it out, I think that it's a far more challenging, self-affirming proposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Baby Blog] Reference

Everyone is complicit in Arthur's self-loathing yet self-affirming drunkenness, no one more so than the audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference

It too has acquired the status of an absolute truth around which a set of self-affirming theoretical principles has also developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Mail] Reference

In addition, she suggests exercises, including meditation, writing down worries and self-affirming qualities to combat stereotypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

But what makes them cluster in self-affirming groups is a desire to be part of a community of like-minded people -- safety in numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

These self-affirming groups of outlaws huddled around, outside buildings, and what they do is reinforcing their addiction more and more.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

All this happy do-gooder self-affirming nonsense is putting a dent in our bottom line! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Why not quench it with a self-affirming program?.    From Wordnik.com.  [de.lirio.us] Reference