The phrase "a negative description of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a portrayal or characterization that highlights unfavorable or undesirable qualities of a subject.
Example: "The article provided a negative description of the new policy, emphasizing its potential drawbacks and shortcomings."
Alternatives: "an unfavorable portrayal of" or "a critical depiction of".
As all instances of legitimate criticism remind us: Neither every negative description of a person('s self-image) nor every challenge of her current status position as hurtful as such "challenges" might be for the affected person is necessarily a form of misrecognition.
In India, in Hindu society, he said, the occupation of your final stage of life was to renounce everything and set out as a spiritual wanderer on an unknown path — a trip with a positive goal that sounds like the negative description of retirement as losing your way.
Converting Socrates' negative description of the non-philosopher, we find that the philosopher has a knowledge (gnôsis) of the reality of each form, thus a clear paradigm in his soul.
As trait words are a powerful means of social description, representing highly abstract characterizations that are easily generalized [35], it was hypothesised that the same offers would be accepted with a higher probability when they were preceded by positive rather than by negative descriptions of the partners.
Voters were divided into four groups: one quarter heard no reference to the female candidate's appearance, while the other three groups were presented with either neutral, positive or negative descriptions of how she looked.
For instance, a number believe that Martin is treated sympathetically, and that his character holds Voltaire's ideal philosophy pessimism. Others disagree, citing Voltaire's negative descriptions of Martin's principles and the conclusion of the work in which Martin plays little part.
STAI determines positive and negative descriptions of oneself ranging between 1 (not applicable at all) and 4 (highly applicable).
Prior research suggests that mothers with PPD are more likely to give negative descriptions of their children than control mothers (Murray and Cooper 1997).
The 10-item LAS includes six positive and four negative descriptions of the extent to which women feel in control during childbirth.
The negative descriptions of treatment at the hospital included argumentative statements, such as the program is not useful, there is a lack of privacy, the treatment stay is boring, the professionals lack competence, the method in the alcohol treatment program is wrong or not clarified enough, and that the process is difficult to understand.
