"British negativism is overwhelming, along with its lack of respect for the role of mediators".
And he argues that these Mexicans are engaged in a process of reverse colonisation a Reconquista of the south-west recapturing the landsouth-west recapturingr of independence of 1835-36 and the Mexican-American war of 1846-48.Nonsense, perhaps—but nonsense that taps into a deep seam of nativism and negativism.
Instead of criticism, negativism and fear of the future, people in Germany should enjoy their high standard of living and relax.
In his "Political Dictionary" he later explained that negativism was the key word; that nabob, from the Urdu, meaning governor, hence self-important potentate, was the ideal practitioner of a negative outlook (see the use by John Adams in 1776); and that nattering was meant to denote complaining, but that Stewart Alsop, his pundit-mentor, had told him that the British use was closer to chattering.
It is pointless to anticipate any meaningful "political debate and competition" to arise from the election.Paul Tighe DublinA splendid splenetic speechSIR – Your obituary of William Safire (October 3rd) mentioned his fondness for alliteration, such as "nattering nabobs of negativism", which he wrote for Spiro Agnew.
The man who Mr Bush calls "Vice" is not just playing the traditional role of a vice-president in an embattled presidency like Spiro Agnew, savaging the "nattering nabobs of negativism" during Vietnam.
Before his resignation in a tax scandal, Spiro Agnew did little to embellish the presidency of Richard Nixon (apart from uttering the alliterative phrase William Safire wrote for him—"nattering nabobs of negativism"—to disparage the administration's critics).
Giving terrorist suspects a proper trial is not a risk; it is justice.It is hard for Mr Bush to reach out beyond his natural supporters, partly because he often brings out the worst sort of unprincipled negativism in his opponents be they Howard Dean or Jacques Chirac.
Calling news commentators "nattering nabobs of negativism," Agnew complained that a mere handful of journalists and producers in three networks determined what the entire population of the country learned about national and international events.
Richard Nixon's administration as a speechwriter; he coined the famous phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" in a speech written for Vice Pres.
Although he was little known to the American public at the time of his nomination for the vice presidency in 1968, Agnew won national recognition for speeches in which he denounced Vietnam War protesters and other opponents of the Nixon administration with colourful epithets such as "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history".
