Now getting dressed each day is a positive act of remembrance.
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
Exhibition curator Ulrich Loock suggests that the artist is the executioner, playing on the idea that he, after all, is the one who executes the work, and that painting itself is a kind of disruption and mutilation, a negative as much as it is a positive act.
As used by bell hooks (1990), yearning is a positive act that motivates struggle in the search for personal and communal justice.
A proposal for direct intervention was unanimously voted down by the panel, which "concluded that intervention was a positive act of war".
You nod politely, make excuses, change the topic — all the skills of conversation come into play, because that person is right there and you can't ignore them, or rather to ignore them is itself a positive act (that is to say, not simply inaction but deliberate inaction).
Well, it's getting to the point where to ignore a text message, email, or evite is also a positive act.
For all its Götterdämmerung, it was ultimately a positive act".
In cases of "withholding treatment", the law hides behind a fig leaf, namely, the idea that this is not a positive act, like administering poison.
For their next cycle, the group decided to focus on developing new procedures designed to remind officers to schedule an assessment whenever there was a positive screen (Act stage).
