Sentence examples for negative phrases from inspiring English sources

Note that the negative phrases are offset by something positive to end the statement.

Each made bingo cards, but instead of numbers, the squares were filled in with some of the negative phrases they expected to hear during the meal, like "That outfit is interesting" or "Your children won't sit still".

These negative phrases are often automatic ― and they could be destroying your mental health.

"When you make the mistake of saying these negative phrases, your words convey a pessimistic, passive, even hopeless outlook," Price says.

Feel free to do your own version of a simple Google test like this [site:yelp.com/biz "Yelp advertiser" AND "rude staff"] by inserting your own negative phrases in the last set of quotation marks.

After we were done chatting, I replayed the phrases "I'm excited that you exist" and "there's nothing that you can say or do at this point that will make me think less of you, I feel" over and over in my mind; it was successful in tampering the negative phrases that had been playing in my mind all day.

Indeed, even the term impressionism was coined as a negative phrase by the then contemporary critic Louis Leroy, who declared that Monet's painting was, at most, a sketch, and could hardly be termed a finished work.

Rather than the negative phrasing "do you think this person has been raped?", the question was framed positively: "do you think consent was sought and granted here?" If we had entered the workshop looking for a strict definition of consent that we could apply to our lives, we found no such thing.

Statements are paired for each topic with a positive and negative phrasing.

I don't know what you mean Neil! Anyway, it's quite a negative phrase.

address the same topic (Basis of evolutionary theory in scientific data) with a positive and negative phrasing, respectively.