Sentence examples for neutral sense from inspiring English sources
It just simply means, in the most neutral sense, contribution.
And a very political one at that, in the neutral sense of the term.
I'm using the term "commercial" in a really neutral sense; I'm not putting anything on it.
The adjective "quirky" expressed shiftiness or guile in the nineteenth century but lost its moral valence around 1960, when it adopted its neutral sense of "idiosyncratic".
Debates are a form of propaganda in the neutral sense of the word: They are occasions for parties to make their respective arguments.
Huntington claims that he is using "nativism" in only a "neutral" sense, to mean "intense opposition to an internal minority on the ground of its foreign (i.e., 'un-American') connections" (here he is quoting Higham).
For one thing, it turns some of the score into melodrama, in the strict (and neutral) musical sense: speech over a running instrumental background.
Yet the other striking and, in its way, perhaps explanatory thing about the book is how petty-bourgeois (in the neutral, descriptive sense that Marx, or, for that matter, Kierkegaard, used the term) its world picture is, even including the petty-bourgeois bias toward self-contempt.
Yet the other striking — and, in its way, perhaps explanatory — thing about the book is how petty-bourgeois (in the neutral, descriptive sense that Marx, or, for that matter, Kierkegaard, used the term) its world picture is, even including the petty-bourgeois bias toward self-contempt.
One way of taking account of this is by speaking (as above) explicitly of the philosophies (in the plural) of the Vienna Circle (and to avoid the singular definite description) while using the expression "Vienna Circle philosophy" (without an article) in a neutral generic sense.
Two dropped shots in the opening three holes had neutral onlookers sensing that Poulter, who started the day with an aggregate score of eight over par, six behind Greg Norman, would once again be consigned to also-ran status.
