Sentence:  Faulkner 's total works today , and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment , or in 1939 , when Mr. O' Donnell wrote his essay , reveal no such simple <WSD>attitude</WSD> toward the South . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways