negatives
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Negatives are removed, as are the critic’s dismissive comments about the film and the exceptions to the opinion.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Negatives include a firm ride quality and less-than-ideal outward visibility.
From Washington Times • Feb. 12, 2020
Negatives in the performance of both works, such as intonation discrepancies in very high and very low ends of the string sound, were overshadowed by the satisfaction of hearing both scores side by side.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2016
One spine is ominously marked “Keep These Negatives in This Box or Else.”
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2015
It is indeed much easier to describe what is not Humour, than what is; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done Wit, by Negatives.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
