Sentence examples for if not positively from inspiring English sources

But investors already seem willing, if not positively keen, to look to the far horizon instead".

If you were a teenager in the early 00s, the indie music scene seemed hugely exciting, if not positively glamorous.

A large teaching hospital is a self-contained, if not positively hermetic, system which doesn't really recognise outsiders as having any contribution to make.

It is remarkable how scratchy, if not positively disparaging, many of the experts in this field are about their colleagues' work.

The repercussions, understandably, are still rolling on.Many economists would agree with Mr Prodi that rules that force countries to cut public spending, even as their economies slow, are indeed stupid, if not positively dangerous.

Granted that serious jazz scholarship is a comparatively young field, it is still decidedly odd that so many scholars and critics have been so slow -- if not positively reluctant -- to grapple with the sometimes uncomfortable implications of what Armstrong wrote about his life and work, which does not always mesh neatly with his good-humored public image.

An essay by Arthur C. Danto, a Columbia University philosopher who is the art critic of The Nation, zeroes in on Grooms's comedy; it is a very thoughtful meditation (I assure you I would have said that even if Danto had not positively reviewed one of my books in these pages 11 years ago) that forms a kind of conversation with Livingstone.

Most studies, however, only use estimates of reproduction, e.g. breeding success or production of young, and assume that habitat-differences in these demographic parameters will be reflected in local population growth rates, but if survival is not positively correlated to reproduction [see e.g. 59] this assumption may be not true.

Therefore, if epitopes were not positively identified (indicated with "0" in the heatmaps) one cannot conclude that they are absent.

This finding corresponds with the "insurance effect" [19] and "portfolio effect" [20], both of which suggest that if species' performances are not positively correlated over time, greater diversity should lead to decreased temporal variance.

In addition, serum GGT was clearly and positively associated with serum C-reactive protein, whereas serum ALT was not positively, if anything inversely, associated with serum C-reactive protein (Lee and Jacobs 2005).