Approval
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- This doesn't mean complacency, but it means and end to striving for the approval of others (or as the story put, going inside of people and eating them from inside) to define us.
Source: Analysis / Monster -
Zero-Approval Gambit - After being accused of being a spy, Brad defects to the Japanese with the intent of sabotaging their war effort from inside.
Source: Film / We've Never Been Licked - But inside, he is so guilt-ridden that he is desperate for everyone to see the world in terms of black-and-white (which would justify his actions), with Gordon on the side of the good guys (thus his creepy obsession with getting Dean's approval).
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