“The fact that he had not returned her call was enough for her to consider it a negative.”

“Inspiring fear in your subordinates is a definite negative of true leadership.”

“The one negative that I find from this diet, is that it is very restrictive.”

“The negation of her dreams left her feeling lost and disillusioned.”

“In this sense unproductive labor occupies the position of an other, a category of labor in difference that can be known primarily by its negative content, which is to say its precise negation of all that defines productive labor.”

“The loss of their star player was a great negation to their chances of winning the championship.”

“The process of formulating Bulgaria's stand should not be accompanied by Euro-skepticism and negativism as some could exploit this.”

“Whatever he touches withers in his grasp and sinks from view into a muck of despair, negativism and nihilism.”

“Perhaps for that reason, few people have bothered to refute Donald's silly negativism.”

“Meditation is a potent tool to alleviate anger and negativity.”

“The key motif of opposition, contradiction, negativity, refusal to accept what now exists in the name of a universal and objective Reason and Freedom is evidenced in all of Marcuse's work.”

“The idea that the reluctance and negativity of the workers came from laziness or a lack of drive had been turned on its head.”

“Bloom's emblematic Shakespeare figures are Falstaff and Hamlet, respectively affirmer and negator par excellence.”

“The Noor presented itself to the world as a grouchy bystander, a great negator.”

“And whoever denies what is common between them is a negator and is surely mistaken.”

“Mothers were instructed to use their own definitions of child positiveness, negativeness, and neutrality in rating child behavior.”

“Everyone is having fun, everyone is happy to be here, and you never feel the negativeness that is normal on many teams.”

“The meagreness or negativeness of their content has been in an inverse ratio to their power.”

“Neither the production of art nor work was supposed to corrupt the negativist rebellion.”

“Dalits would like the support to negativist thesis because it ultimately absolves their ideal from neglecting the real interests of his followers.”

“Set aside all the negativist libertarian whining about constitutional rights, goes his newest advice, and forget about America's moral leadership.”

“This too seems to be based on what may roughly be termed a guesstimate, with no consideration of the negativities.”

“It makes you think of negativities — the water that is not in the boat, the boat that is not a boat.”

“Today, it is clear to the whole world that democracy is the best system despite its minor negativities.”

“The original negatives and micrographs presented in Sutinen et al. and Holopainen et al. were used to identify the ozone-induced granules.”

“It's not a fun job, scanning negatives, and I decided to call it a day when I'd finished the first film.”

“But off-setting these places, are negatives which are really by-products of poverty.”

“I have long thought that Levine's negations and denials were in fact forms of affirmation and acceptance, ways of warding off sentimentality and bad faith.”

“Hume notes that we cannot imagine or conceive of the negations of typical mathematical theorems, but this seems to be a weak hold on the necessity of mathematics.”

“The contradictions and negations of life cannot be sublated into a determinate negation because life is not a positive, given fact but is the product of human labor.”