Just a general California yea-saying to the world.

Yet his sense of humor is corny and his yea-saying may put off sophisticated people.

The affirmation of the Provençal tradition is also one of a joyful "yea-saying" to life.

--into all abysses do I then carry my beneficent Yea-saying.

"My answer then," Mr. Zaslaw said, "was really just a matter of yea-saying rather than nay-saying.

So, to those who at the end of this book still can't understand or sympathize with my Nietzschean yea-saying, I quote again:"Fire out of ice."

Clarence Major has created a delightfully lifelike, storytelling woman whose candor is matched only by her devotion to truth and her down-to-earth yea-saying to life.

It is born of close encounters with, and rigorous thinking about, the realities of the world: a heroic yea-saying in the face of modernism's nihilistic nay-saying.

What must be, must be... it is all for the best... there is peace in everything-- In this state of uncritical yea-saying, the passengers on the serpentine were run through an assembly line of elaborate and bestial practical jokes.

And in his music there is almost always the consolation of the great forests, the healing of the trees and silences, the cooling hands of the earth, the everlasting yea-saying to love and beauty, the manly resignation, the leave-taking from dreams and life.

All this was so undramatic after a big day of yea-saying by three-fourths of all eligible voters in the republic that Mr. Gorbachev could perhaps mark it as a lesson in trying to use once-formidable Kremlin parapets to talk down upon the many voices of nationalism heard now in the Soviet empire.