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Example sentences for "more positive"

  • I will never forget him for it; you mustn't either," he continued in a more positive tone.

  • I have tried other things, and she would not listen," he said in a more positive tone.

  • But it will be," answered Jack in a more positive tone; this part of the work was in his hands.

  • Policy is often used in a kindred sense, more positive than expediency but narrower than utility, as in the proverb, "Honesty is the best policy.

  • Enjoyment is more positive, always implying something to be definitely and consciously delighted in; a sick person finds comfort in relief from pain, while he may be far from a state of enjoyment.

  • The Monroe Doctrine, as proclaimed in 1825, rounded out this negative policy with a more positive assertion of principles.

  • They have tended to give a new meaning to popular government by endowing it with larger powers, more positive responsibilities, and a better faith in human excellence.

  • During the presidency of Monroe the systematic isolation of the United States in respect to Europe was developed, so far as the two Americas were concerned, into a more positive doctrine.

  • When we have placed the problem on a more positive basis, and are able to invoke the more active and fruitful motives of asceticism and chastity this unfortunate fight against a natural impulse is abolished.

  • If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the "punctum stans" of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration.

  • It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray that produced by the mixture of more positive colors.

  • To allow is more positive, denoting (at least originally and etymologically) a decided assent, either directly or by implication.

  • Defn: A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more abundantly; more active; more and; more beautiful; more before; more cards; more complex; more correctly; more death; more delicate; more formal; more formidable; more grievous; more honorable; more intense; more interested; more liable; more moderate; more particular; more ready; more regular; more remarkable; more simple; more work; more years; scientific method