Hi Beagle,
You said:
ONLY until an attitude is reached at which whatever it was that told you you had stalled no longer does so
This is what I used to do instinctively until the CFI who was checking me out for my Flight Test told me to pitch forward until the speed had increased significantly over the stall (say to Vx) before recovering from the descent.
In trying to figure out why his approach was better I guessed that just making the stall warning go away might result in wallowing along on the back of the drag curve.
Do you think I was right after all?