Sentence examples for a negative attribute from inspiring English sources

Many of his photographs exude a pastoral easiness that verges on the sentimental, though you would have to be exceptionally hard-hearted to declare this a negative attribute.

Why is this shift from focusing on individual difference as a negative attribute to reshaping our architectural and more broadly social constructions important for everyone?

It's a common, and extremely frustrating, problem that while most people view ambition as an attractive quality in a man, it often changes into a negative attribute when it crosses the gender divide.

In an appearance this morning on the NBC-TV program "Today," Mr. Evans even seemed to cast Mr. Gore's forensic prowess as a negative attribute -- proof that he had been a political insider too long.

Instead, they have concluded these patterns point to the presence of what psychologists dub "implicit discrimination" – an unconscious association between members of a social group and a negative attribute.

Participants who were faster at hitting the key associated with, say, a black face and with a negative attribute scored higher in implicit bias because they were quicker to make the association between black people and negative attributes.

"Flip-flops are important when they reinforce a larger narrative about a candidate's negative attribute," observed Kevin Madden, a top aide to former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts in this year's Republican primaries.

In another case, one can demonstrate an implicitly negative attribute of something from the fact that it is composed of real parts, arguing, for instance, that "Whatever has separable parts is destructible, every material thing has separable parts, therefore every material thing is destructible".

The stigma of mental illness, although more often related to context than to appearance, remains an influential negative attribute in society.

The same key was sometimes used to identify a black or white face, and to identify a positive or negative attribute.

Finally, a child's getting along "better with adults than with other children" (SDQ item 4) did not appear to be associated with any of the outcomes examined, perhaps because of the ambiguous nature of the question (i.e., could be interpreted as a positive or negative attribute).