Sentence examples for merely negative from inspiring English sources

This is different from merely negative feedback, which can be dismissed.

There was never any admonition about merely negative things," says Cox.

But his style wasn't a merely negative exercise, a winnowing or clearing out: he delivered a gorgeous, full-bodied alternative.

In that view, the function of its adoption is not merely negative, but positive; the planning of improvements as well as the extirpation of abuses.

Nothing can be less helpful than for courts to go beyond the extremely limited restrictions that the Constitution places upon the states and to inject themselves in a merely negative way into the delicate processes of fiscal policy-making.

"What our age thinks of as the 'shadow' and inferior part of the psyche contains more than something merely negative," he writes in The Undiscovered Self, an essay published in 1957.

That we are being told this is all just negative publicity, merely a marketing blip, is not a promising sign.

This confirms the Ghana AIDS Commission campaign message that merely testing negative once in your life does not necessarily mean that your HIV status will always remain negative.

Modernists merely paid negative homage by breaking that tradition.

Having quickly achieved widespread name-recognition, he failed to move on from being merely a negative "anti-Hillary".

Why should he care about a piece by an obscure writer in a dying magazine in which a merely mildly negative sentence by him was quoted?