One of the most prominent skeptics is Barbara Ehrenreich, whose best-selling book "Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America," published in the fall, maintains that thinking positively does little good in the long run, and can, in fact, do harm.
"They absolutely, positively don't want to find another".
As a FedEx troubleshooter suddenly so lonely he talks to a volleyball, Mr. Hanks has to learn to experience time in new ways, now that he absolutely, positively doesn't have to be anywhere ever.
All week before the game, they had said they had to beat Detroit, because they absolutely, positively, did not want to have to go to Baltimore needing a victory.
If after you've finished a job interview, you tend to bite your nails to shreds and mentally replay the questions you fumbled until you've convinced yourself that you absolutely, positively didn't get the job, take heart.
They might have folded on the third evening, when Alastair Cook and Alex Hales went out with England 103 runs behind, but so positively did they bat, fed by some modest bowling at a time when Pakistan ought to have been hammering home their advantage, that they shifted the game in a session.
But above all, absolutely, positively don't form organizations to make your case to the public and to represent your interests within the university or science worlds.
Silicon Valley absolutely, positively doesn't need a nap room because in theory we don't sleep, let alone nap (and if we do need to nap — like in an emergency — we take that shiz home, far far away from hungry competitors!).
I loved these unusually tasty potatoes, although a new Dutch friend I met on the island positively did not.
Today, the real Annabelle is a star attraction in the Warren's Occult Museum where she permanently rests in case labeled "Warning: Positively do not open".
He should be investigated by journalists, again and again, for this alleged hypocrisy, until they can say for sure it absolutely, positively doesn't exist.
