29 adjectives to describe negatives

The latter indeed is what the contradiction amounts to; but double negatives must be shunned, whenever they seem like blunders.

Of this finger-print a photograph is taken, or rather, a photographic negative, which for this purpose requires to be taken on a reversed plate, and the negative is put into a special printing frame, with a plate of gelatine which has been treated with potassium bichromate, and the frame is exposed to light.

England has answered both these questions with an unhesitating negative.

I can no more prove a universal negative about them than I can about the existence of life on the moon.

The French Ambassador used very strong language, telling him his Court would be very much hurt indeed at finding him make these difficulties after all that had passed, &c. Peel told me he was disposed to grant the motion for any correspondence between the Board of Control or any member of it, &c., with a direct negative.

The Queen-mother, however, placed no faith in the sincerity of this promise, while Richelieu met it by an instant negative, declaring that "every one was aware that Spain was like a canker which gnawed and devoured every substance to which it attached itself."

*The King's exertion of the power vested in him by the constitution, by putting a temporary negative on this decree, it is well known, was one of the pretexts for dethroning him.

This sarcastic comment was Bubble's most emphatic negative.

Hall owners will please consider silence a polite negative.

There is only one Coliseum or Pantheon; but how many millions of potential negatives have they shed,representatives of billions of pictures,since they were erected!

But then, my lord, as I would not recommend it to you to bring into practice the royal negative, so neither perhaps would it be advisable for the sovereign, to instruct those lords immediately attendant upon him, in person.

In taking the picture of the Suburban race almost five thousand separate negatives (all on one strip of film, however) were made during the two minutes five and three-fifths seconds the race was being run.

" The waiting hostility developed in a sharp negative: "Ah, no!" "But yes," Lanyard insisted.

And to the startled negative of the doctor, who repeated that "it was lying on the top of the papers in the box," she added: "Well, it will be burned yet.

Standing on the threshold of a peace restored, we must pray that out of the epic experience of the great conflict something more than the stern negative of our victory shall be preserved for the time to come, something positive of good, something of that divine light of men's heroic sacrifice which shone out in the darkest hour, something of new strength and understanding of life and of human potentialities.

The house is, as I expected, still silent, and, therefore, I may now safely proceed upon the supposition of an unanimous negative.

" Lulu rose and took Monona by the hand, the child hanging back and shaking her straight hair in an unconvincing negative.

What if the sky is one great concave mirror, which reflects the picture of all our doings, and photographs every act on which it looks upon dead and living surfaces, so that to celestial eyes the stones on which we tread are written with our deeds, and the leaves of the forest are but undeveloped negatives where our summers stand self-recorded for transfer into the imperishable record?

Cannot ingenuity supply the place of strength, and the boat be cast from the decks before the fatal moment arrives?" Wilder shook his head in an unequivocal negative.

The marchesa, who found the count decidedly troublesome, not to say impertinent, had opened her lips to give an unqualified negative, but another glance from Trenta checked her.

You propose to clothe judges with the highest legislative functions, since you give them an absolute negative on legislation, and yet you decline to impose on them the responsibility to a constituency, which constrains other legislators.

The boy shook his head in vigorous negative.

Here, after an interval, we were joined by Polton, who bore with infinite tenderness the dripping negative on which could be seen the grotesque transparency of a colossal thumb-mark.

Correspondingly, the next in the series of Turner drawings, the "Aysgarth Force," shows no attempt to give the real color of Nature, but a single color governing the whole drawing, a golden brown passing in shadow into its exact negative.

Against French demands for restitution they presented a firm and unchangeable negative; it was kinder so and juster, to allow no opening for hope, no loophole for negotiation, no intervention by other Powers.

29 adjectives to describe  negatives