He had a dealer, his work was included in scholarly art tomes, and earned friendly notices from The Herald Tribune ("large, highly amusing and inventive prints that look like Pop posters but really go deeper in their social significance and satiric overtones") and other newspapers.
The negativity bias aggravates this feeling; lots of people have said very nice things, and when I go to the Toolbox I can see that lots of people are using the site and posting great stuff there, and yet the few criticisms - which were more like gentle, friendly notices about problems, rather than criticisms - hit me far harder.
As a woman she put up with condescension, but she also attracted friendly notice, especially from Nehru, who admired her persistence and ingenuity.
Vowell has gotten some friendly notice in the Hawaiian media, including a plug on the Hawaiian Kingdom Independence Blog, which argues that Hawaii is a sovereign nation under illegal occupation by the United States.
A friendly general noticed the court beautician's downcast mood and, being told of Max's secret family, arranged for his escape.
"One high school student said that when her elementary school became child-friendly, she noticed the change in behaviour of the teachers," Lulay comments.
She also pointed out that home health monitoring systems are in the very early stages, and that sometimes a friendly neighbor who notices, for example, that your mother has not retrieved her morning newspaper can be as effective as a motion detector.
Mohammed, a philosophy student, was kind and friendly, but I noticed that as he spoke he wrestled his knuckles together and twisted a piece of foil from a cigarette packet into a tighter and tighter cone.
He is entirely friendly but, I notice, not one for prolonged eye contact; throughout our conversation in a Clerkenwell coffee shop, he seems to need something to play with, a coin, a spoon.
A friendly faculty member noticed X's abilities and suggested that X apply to graduate school.
After kindly confirming this and noting that even then they don't come up for sale very often, the friendly real estate agent notices my camera and odd inquisitiveness and checks herself.
