The jeweler's simultaneous affirmation and repudiation of Jewishness collapses the binary into the same. |
Each person is seen as trapped within his or her own private bubble, in constant need of affirmation and recognition. |
Girls feel enhanced by continuous social affirmation while boys feel diminished. |
In a stunning affirmation of the artistic impulse, they made beauty out of abjection, and that, at least, is a triumph. |
In their political and personalised affirmation of Aboriginality, they challenge and detach themselves from the European historical narrative. |
What might seem like skepticism ends up as affirmation because of the poet's commitment to honesty. |