Sentence examples for negative phrasing from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Use the tactful, positive, or neutral word rather than the potentially offensive or negative phrasing.

Each statement is scored on a five-point categorical scale, from 'strongly agree' through 'neither agree nor disagree' to 'strongly disagree' 1 5 or 5 1 depending on positive or negative phrasing.

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".

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.

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

For some, "the Kansas experiment" is a negative phrase – an epithet hurled toward anyone who would defend the sweeping tax reforms implemented four years ago in the Sunflower State.

Why has the negative phrase "It's just a PR stunt" entered common parlance to suggest something ephemeral and without substance, merit, or legitimacy?