Include significant events such as album releases, tragic and negative events (murders, incarcerations, etc)., and positive publicity for the movement (such as the "Stop the Violence" campaign).
But is this tragic outcome, and negative consequences, in any sense our fault?
If Burt's Lincoln is a Rawlsian liberal seeking something like the basic requirements of justice, he is also someone with a tragic sense of "negative capability".
Mr. Bush's national security team — and many Pentagon officers — continues to labor under the tragic delusion that negative coverage, rather than the bad news itself, undermined public support for the war in Vietnam.
What keeps you optimistic that we can turn things around on this big planet and avoid - as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described it -- the possibility of "very negative tragic consequences for humanity?" I now have six grandchildren.
"We have 2,000 years of history, a good percentage of which is negative and tragic, so he was quite right to raise difficult issues".
It pandered to its core voters in a negative and tragic tone, hinting at foul play in the air crash in Russia in April 2010 that killed the president (Mr Kaczynski's twin brother Lech), and 95 others.But the PiS campaign has been surprisingly positive.
Negative space has tragic social implications in the single drawing by Robert Gober that provides one of the show's exclamation points.
All of which, they promise, can help people view divorce as a good thing, not "solely experienced as a negative, damaging and tragic life experience," as the Web site puts it.
It will be tragic if Egypt demonstrates this only by negative example.
