Unfortunately, that included negative traits.
Pinter's great subject was Englishness, and its stereotypical negative traits, especially repression.
Focusing on your negative traits and behaviours means that you turn a blind eye to your positive qualities.
Generally, minority groups are allowed certain desirable traits in the culture, which they pay for with a matched set of negative traits.
Her haters would have just as easy a time coming up with a list of negative traits they might claim define her.
Our financial sector, which plunged a large swath of humanity into economic turmoil, is perhaps the epitome of all the negative traits associated with modern capitalism.
In a recent session at RHR, Mr. Healy of Best Buy took part in a series of exercises aimed at helping participants confront negative traits common in their ranks, like arrogance and the drive to dominate people.
Paltrow has become a compelling Marmite figure in popular culture, partly because we project on to her character the negative traits we associate with discipline (being dull company, not having sex) as well as the positive ones.
Understanding diet in the future will be a case of finding the genes responsible for negative traits (such as obesity) and working out how they interact with the stresses in our individual environments.
"There is a lot that I could say about my extreme differences on management style with the current leadership at Nest, who seem to be fetishizing only the most superfluous and negative traits of their mentors".
Intentionally or not, this report regurgitates the old middle-class myth that the poor would be perfectly fine if only they could shed the negative traits of their class and become more virtuous.
