He had on his side the one component essential to the negativist: the facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference

But I'm not painting an absolutely negativist picture of the current art scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America] Reference

But he replied to me "My dear Peter, nobody would want to be an illogical negativist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Austrian Economics Heterodox Economics? - The Austrian Economists] Reference

You know, another thought I'm having is that I frequently encounter a sort of "negativist peer pressure" that comes from people who are close to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives] Reference

Republicans traditionally were a negativist party, a party that was used to being out of power, a party that was used to being cynical and sniping at the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004] Reference

Yet it is that very willingness to go beyond what is acceptable, to behave in the literary equivalent of a boorish, pushing manner, that makes for the great negativist.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference

Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist — to introduce a new literary type — is more persuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland, formulaic language of praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference

From The Atlantic's Fiction Issue: Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist -to introduce a new literary type- is more pesuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland formulaic language of praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take THAT Mr McSweegee] Reference

Absolute faith he had none; he was essentially a negativist, guided by the mere relations of phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

I myself felt that he came out during the election campaign as a negativist leader, who was good in criticising the government and Manmohan Singh, but was unable to come out with a positive policy package which he could place before the electorate as an alternative to what the UPA government was doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [rediff.com] Reference

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is not very far from certain eastern negativist modes, as many philosophers, west and east, have noted for half a century. newhavendan says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books] Reference

The negativist of course assumed from the first that Martin, however respectable his knowledge, was far from possessing the scientific mind, and each conversation had supplied him with proofs of this defect; it was not at all in the modern spirit that the man of threescore years pursued his geological and kindred researches, but with the calm curiosity of a liberal intellect which has somehow taken this direction instead of devoting itself to literary study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

Perhaps I'm a dyed in the wool negativist.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Why I See the Positive] Reference

Soldiers living with HIV will testify to the importance of not discriminating against PLWHA with the slogan "Somos positivos e negativist.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference