Sentence examples for needlessly negative from inspiring English sources

In some ways, the young women coming in are needlessly negative.

In society at large, however, nostalgia can distort our understanding of the world in dangerous ways, making us needlessly negative about our current situation.

For example, we steer clear of the shorthand "illegals" and also the word "aliens," both of which we think have needlessly negative connotations.

At the risk of sounding needlessly negative, I'm pretty sure that I'd prefer baking bricks in the hot sun, guzzling motor oil, or jumping rope with barbed wire to spending an afternoon living among the Na'vi, perhaps the most sanctimonious and frankly boring humanoids ever portrayed on film.

On this note we should remember that being polite isn't about holding your tongue when something needs to be said, rather, it is about expressing yourself and your ideas in a way that isn't needlessly negative.

The term  however  in the third paragraph of the intro seems needlessly negative about previous research.

If a lack of awareness about NF1 results in children being deprived of these approaches, they could needlessly suffer major negative impacts on their cognitive and psychosocial development.

With Web-based attacks proliferating, campaigns are leaving behind the assumption that to respond to highly negative or false accusations is to needlessly publicize them.

Third, in his distinction between negative and infinite judgments he apparently needlessly distinguishes between a "wide scope" negation of whole propositions and a "narrow scope" negation of predicates, thus creating a systematic ambiguity in interpreting propositions of the form "Fs are not Gs," which can then be construed either as "no Fs are Gs" or as "Fs are non-Gs".

Ms. Futter, the president of the American Museum of Natural History, was sick of the swirl of negative attention surrounding her, worried that it needlessly detracted from JPMorgan's strengths and that it might hurt the reputation of the museum, people briefed on the matter said.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] mice and menSIR – Your leader on animal experiments stated that scientists "usually publish the results of their research only if they are positive, but if there is more data about negative results, scientists are less likely to repeat experiments needlessly" ("Suffering for science", May 9th).