Was it her habitual attitude toward all members of the law enforcement community, or was it meant for this one in particular?
Some lack of enthusiasm is caused by a habitual attitude of boredom and hopelessness, and the simple remedy to this is often to commence a regimen of positive thought.
He relapsed at once into the half-humorous, half-cynical vein which was his habitual attitude to those about him.
In philosophy and psychology, an alief is an automatic or habitual belief-like attitude, particularly one that is in tension with a person's explicit beliefs.
Riding a crest of unbelievable popularity due to his role in the defeat of Napoleon, he would have little reason to change that habitual attitude now.
It is the image of a certain psychic situation which is strongly accentuated emotionally and is, moreover, incompatible with the habitual attitude of consciousness.
It has given us 'skeptical' both in English and in Russian to indicate a habitual doubting attitude.
The thing was in us and not from without, it was akin to our way of thinking and our habitual attitudes; it had, for all its impulsive effect, a certain necessity.
Norman was sprawled in a chair, eyes closed in his habitual attitude.
It lasted only a few seconds, vivid enough to temporarily subdue any discord until their habitual attitudes towards each other slid into place again.