Sentence examples for a negative sort from inspiring English sources

It sounds like a claim for outstanding success but to Dr Holland it is "just a negative sort of success".

The scenery, which it appears came from Turin, pleased one in a negative sort of way by showing that some foreign theatres can still occasionally produce something quite as dowdy as the average staging one is accustomed to at Covent Garden.

Robert Iger, the president of ABC, gets up at 4 45 A.M. and heads to the gym... Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, "Are you busy?," meaning "Are you well?" If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust "Busy!" to which the person will reply, "Good!" "Busy" used to be a negative sort of word... Now, though, busyness is bullish.

Still, Pufendorf's state is not built on a thick, essentialist, or teleological (philosophical or theological) anthropology – even of a negative sort – but on an empirical, historical, or realistic assessment of actual human affairs.

She had "expectations of herself that were not realistic, and also just a negative sort of view of people and family –- that sort of thing was also concerning," Ruthanne added.

Regulatory activity of both cell subsets was tested in autologous and heterologous co-cultures after purification through a negative sorting strategy.

Endothelial cells were cultured and purified over a 2- to 3-week period by a series of magnetic immunosortings with Dynabeads (Invitrogen), including a single negative sort using antibodies to the Fc III/II receptor (Abd Serotec) to remove macrophages, followed by at least two positive sorts using antibodies to ICAM-2 (Abd Serotec) to enrich for the endothelial cell population.

(Would these groups behave better if we did? Would others follow suit? Would harm be prevented?) In other cases, we are concerned with consequences of a decidedly more negative sort.

But there are signs of a new, more defensive, more negative sort of nationalism, replacing the proud, more positive sort of recent decades.

Another of Woodward's pet phrases was "energy-sapper" - a reference to the more negative sort of characters who he believed cost him his shot at the previous World Cup in 1999.

This selection was carried out in a similar manner as the LN8 selection, except that the negative sort was omitted in the first round.