Sentence examples for negative writing from inspiring English sources

Opinions as to the quality of the road were mainly negative; writing in 1795, John Aikin said "Much Labour and a very great expense of money have been expended on the roads of this parish, but they still remain in a very indifferent state, and from one plain and obvious cause, the immoderate weights drawn in carts and waggons".

Critical reaction to the show was generally negative: writing in The Times following the broadcast of "Conversations with the Dead", Andrew Hislop wrote that "Star Cops has neither the campiness of Star Trek nor the imagination of Dr. Who to overcome its technological limitations".

Mark Androvich of Classic Gamer Magazine was similarly negative, writing "Games by Apollo released a couple of decent games before going bankrupt, but you never would have guessed that anyone at the company knew how to program the Atari 2600 judging by their debut game".

But Maynard Smith has not been consistently negative, writing in a review of The Panda's Thumb that "Stephen Gould is the best writer of popular science now active... Often he infuriates me, but I hope he will go right on writing essays like these".

"I understand that there are times when good stuff is written, too, but in New York, where it's so competitive, there has to be something negative written.

"I never understood why postmodernism had to define itself in the negative," wrote the musician David Byrne in the V&A catalog.

Williams' last, garbled story, "The Negative," written in November of 1982, tells of a has-been poet who can't finish his poem and is about to be sent to a nursing home.

"Those [from the UK] on the temporary employment register are there for a reason, usually negative," wrote Chris Slay, director of another firm, Skills Provision, in a newsletter to clients.

Do vice presidents seek out feedback from people well outside their inner circle — and act on it?" For executives who want to create an atmosphere of respect, "Positive always beats negative," wrote Peterson.

Today Dan wore a Primus T-shirt to school and had Type-O-Negative written on his hat and I was like—cool!

Today Dan wore a Primus T-shirt to school and had Type-O-Negative written on his hat and I was like cool!