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  • But I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt since the moment I met him, and any sorrow I felt for him has just been negated by the fact that he's now attempting to tell me that my own mother was somehow involved.†   (source)
  • "Dex," as it is known, can temporarily negate the deleterious effects of altitude; each member of Fischer's team carried repared syringe of the drug in a plastic toothbrush case inside a prep his or her down suit, where it wouldn't freeze, for emergencies.†   (source)
  • The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations.†   (source)
  • Any exotic qualities which might have come from Sol Weintraub's Jewish legacy were instantly negated by his BW accent, his Crawford Squire Shop wardrobe, and the fact that he had come to the party with a copy of Detresque's Solitudes in Variance absentmindedly tucked under his arm.†   (source)
  • Adela notices that all sound is, reduced to a hollow booming noise, so that a voice or a footfall or the striking of a match results in this booming negation.†   (source)
  • The shark was utterly frozen in place, perhaps negating the tank's occupants' ability to sense him.†   (source)
  • There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space — it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole.†   (source)
  • I propose to negate this attack by so ordering our lives that there'll be no chinks for such barbs to enter.†   (source)
  • The negation of the Eleatic philosophy was Heracli-tus, who said that everything flows.†   (source)
  • I also want to say I'm going to negate that policy in this particular case."†   (source)
  • However, your success does not negate the reality of your disobedience.†   (source)
  • Let me assure you as your new principal my goal is to bridge any gap in the school culture that negates that motto.†   (source)
  • This was done to negate the power of organization and to neutralize our collective strength.†   (source)
  • The Fugees were to keep the ball on the ground to negate the competition's height advantage, and whenever possible, to send the ball away from the middle and toward the wings, where Josiah and Idwar could use their speed and where the Fugees were less apt to get knocked around.†   (source)
  • Instead we cherish his negation.†   (source)
  • His skills negated the handicap; he once won on a horse carrying fifteen pounds more than his impost.†   (source)
  • The other guys in the band don't feel the same way, but singing for sex negates the art.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger stared at him blankly and then shook his head in negation.†   (source)
  • Good, negation of good in the past tense, agreement with statement.†   (source)
  • I whispered something, a swift irrational negation.†   (source)
  • Otis chuckled but, Vlad noticed, he didn't negate Vlad's jibe.†   (source)
  • Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word!†   (source)
  • She shook her head and quietly said "no, no, no," over and over again, but without tears, and I wasn't sure if she was answering her grandfather's question or just negating the whole situation.†   (source)
  • You could throw ten thousand more excuses for a sorry childhood on his shoulders, and in my opinion, it still wouldn't negate the fact that my husband, my baby, had been killed.†   (source)
  • As soon as he left, he somehow trained his mind to instantly negate any thoughts of the place.†   (source)
  • Security made a negating gesture.†   (source)
  • Here in this room my defenses were negated, stripped away, checked at the door as the weapons, the knives and razors and owlhead pistols of the country boys were checked on Saturday night at the Golden Day.†   (source)
  • The clear wrap of windows and the glossy acrylic table didn't negate the fact that Simpson was in deep trouble.†   (source)
  • What was happening could negate thirteen years of therapy, couldn't they understand that?†   (source)
  • Including the words that had negated all the rest.†   (source)
  • If we were to take them and the Book back to the Sidh, we could do whatever we wished—modify them, make them the size of ostriches, or negate their existence altogether.†   (source)
  • Her face pressed to her arm, she moved her head, shaking it slowly hi negation.†   (source)
  • A lifetime in a Southern family negated any possibility that he could resign from the school under any conditions other than unequivocal disgrace.†   (source)
  • "After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America—as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.†   (source)
  • The clause that bans State import and export taxes is called a negative pregnant—that is, a negation of one thing and an affirmation of another.†   (source)
  • And how could God keep it all sorted, all these direct lines, these prayers that were shot up to him like bullets, crisscrossing, ricocheting, contradicting, negating.†   (source)
  • I noted that her first name as shortened differs from the English causation-inquiry word by only an aspiration and that her last name has the same sound as the general negator.†   (source)
  • With a feeling of decisive, final negation that was almost like panic within me, I wanted to hear no more about Auschwitz, not another word.†   (source)
  • I could talk to Leila Thackery first, check further into the Burns killing, keep posted on new developments, find out more about the vessel in the Gulf … I might be able to accomplish something, even if it was only the negation of Brockden's theory, without Dave's and my paths ever crossing.†   (source)
  • That was encrusted with parental associations… Negation.†   (source)
  • "This individualism also met its negation, or opposite, in Hegel's philosophy.†   (source)
  • His hands were clasped behind his back, but the relaxed pose was negated by the white knuckles.†   (source)
  • There must be ways to remove the blessing, to negate a spell.†   (source)
  • I might have trust issues, but that doesn't negate the fact that she's the closest friend I have.†   (source)
  • He protested, the negation barely forming on his lips, his hand rising as if to thrust it away.†   (source)
  • Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger called his name sharply, and Jake responded with that inarticulate sound of negation.†   (source)
  • She made a negating gesture, wiping out the rest of that sentence.†   (source)
  • It doesn't negate the fact that my behavior was inadvisable."†   (source)
  • It was man's mind that had to be negated in order to make him fall apart.†   (source)
  • By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person.†   (source)
  • Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'†   (source)
  • Existence is not a negation of negatives.†   (source)
  • This is most apparent in general relativity: Its static model of the universe negates the dynamic nature of matter.†   (source)
  • I was especially mad at my mother, because she had negated the positive impression I had made previously by reciting the color wheel.†   (source)
  • I apologize for the double negative, but it's a real double negative of a situation, a bind from which negating the negation is truly the only escape.†   (source)
  • My ambition was to negate.†   (source)
  • And the more grossly they expressed themselves about women's inferiority, the stronger became the negation.†   (source)
  • Empedocles' standpoint—which provided the compromise between the two schools of thought—was what Hegel called the negation of the negation.†   (source)
  • Even if I'm cleared, it doesn't negate the fact that my application for the academy, my records, are fraudulent.†   (source)
  • Even if the gate was enchanted—though Carn did not believe it was—Roran didn't think any one magician, save Galbatorix, would be strong enough to negate the forward momentum of the barges once they began to move downstream.†   (source)
  • Or maybe it was like pressing on a bruised patch of skin or hammering a tight sore muscle to see if it still hurt, as if applying pain to pain can somehow cancel out or negate the first.†   (source)
  • More than half of the enchantments were dormant—because they lacked energy, no longer had an object upon which to act, or were waiting for a certain set of circumstances that had yet to arrive—and a number of the spells seemed to conflict, as if the Riders, or whoever had cast them, had sought to modify or negate earlier pieces of magic.†   (source)
  • Courts Negating Legislative Will†   (source)
  • He had hired more mature women to negate any physical temptation, but, as a rule, they had been bossy, maternal, menopausal, and they had more doctors' appointments, as well as aches and pains to talk about and funerals to attend.†   (source)
  • The very act of trying to put it all down has confused me and negated some of the anger and some of the bitterness.†   (source)
  • But for her, darkness did not mean infinity; for her, it meant a disagreement with what she saw, the negation of what was seen, the refusal to see.†   (source)
  • To do this,the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality—all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.†   (source)
  • Man's good-say both-is to give up his personal desires, to deny himself, renounce himself, surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives.†   (source)
  • Any group, any gang, any nation that attempts to negate man's rights, is wrong, which means: is evil, which means: is anti-life.†   (source)
  • Galt lay relaxed, as if not attempting to fight the pain, but surrendering to it, not attempting to negate it, but to bear it.†   (source)
  • Such a being is a metaphysical monstrosity, struggling to oppose, negate and contradict the fact of his own existence, running blindly amuck on a trail of destruction, capable of nothing but pain.†   (source)
  • To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight.†   (source)
  • A shudder of pity ran through her body and ended in the movement of shaking her head: she did not know for which of the two men the pity was intended, but it made her unable to speak and she shook her head over and over again, as if trying desperately to negate some vast, impersonal suffering that had made them all its victims.†   (source)
  • Evil, not value, is an absence and a negation, evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from. us.†   (source)
  • But you stifled, negated, betrayed it.†   (source)
  • A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness-to value the failure of your values-is an insolent negation of morality.†   (source)
  • Rearden said involuntarily, not knowing that the question negated his anger, that it was a plea to stop this man and hold him, "What did you want to learn to understand about me?"†   (source)
  • He caught a glimpse of his own figure: the tall body distorted by a sloppy, sagging posture, as if in deliberate negation of human grace, the thinning hair, the soft, sullen mouth.†   (source)
  • The removal of a threat is not a payment, the negation of a negative is not a reward, the withdrawal of your armed hoodlums is not an incentive, the offer not to murder me is not a value.†   (source)
  • Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason.†   (source)
  • All their identifications consist of negating: God is that which no human mind can know, they say-and proceed to demand that you consider it knowledge-God is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit, A is non-A, perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason.†   (source)
  • You let them infect you with the worship of need-and this country became a giant in body with a mooching midget in place of its soul, while its living soul was driven underground to labor and feed you in silence, unnamed, unhonored, negated, its soul and hero: the industrialist.†   (source)
  • It was not a solitude of atrophy, of negation, but of perpetual flowering.†   (source)
  • Joad waved his stick in negation when the plug was held out to him.†   (source)
  • No arsenic to obtain and administer—nothing definite-just-negation!†   (source)
  • "A stick," said Eugene, "is not only wood but the negation of wood.†   (source)
  • To me, you were the sufficient negation to all your teachings.†   (source)
  • …doing anything but just thinking out loud at all) that the legal mind might perceive and clarify that initial mistake which he still insisted on, which he himself had not been able to find: 'I was faced with condoning a fact which had been foisted upon me without my knowledge during the process of building toward my design, which meant the absolute and irrevocable negation of the design; or in holding to my original plan for the design in pursuit of which I had incurred this negation.†   (source)
  • I want them to absorb their negations.†   (source)
  • Maria had turned and waved her hand at him and El Sordo waved disparagingly with the abrupt, Spanish upward flick of the forearm as though something were being tossed away which seems the negation of all salutation which has not to do with business.†   (source)
  • Just blank negation.†   (source)
  • Whence can such a power come to break the life-negating spell and dissolve the wrath of the two childhood fathers?†   (source)
  • Negation?†   (source)
  • A monastic-puritanical, world-negating ethical system then radically and immediately transfigures all the images of myth.†   (source)
  • There was little difference at first, although there was a definite beginning, as when the pump starts and the rubber of the tube crawls a little, but it came now as steadily as a tide rising or the sap rising in a tree until he began to feel the first edge of that negation of apprehension that often turned into actual happiness before action.†   (source)
  • Death— the great negation?†   (source)
  • Absorb the Negation!†   (source)
  • The soundlessness impressed her as a positive entity rather than as the mere negation of noise.†   (source)
  • It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.†   (source)
  • The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism.†   (source)
  • She shook her head, but with a weakened negation.†   (source)
  • 'At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all—and we deny——'†   (source)
  • It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations.†   (source)
  • Napoleon silently shook his head in negation.†   (source)
  • What if "niceness" carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness?†   (source)
  • No one realized that she thought tears vile, a degradation more subtle than anything endured in the Marabar, a negation of her advanced outlook and the natural honesty of her mind.†   (source)
  • He does not call it a dishonest action but 'the impulse of a noble despair'; 'a negation'; or the devil knows what!†   (source)
  • The life that went on in them seemed to me made up of evasions and negations; shifts to save cooking, to save washing and cleaning, devices to propitiate the tongue of gossip.†   (source)
  • They were present at each event—space was negated, time turned back, "then and there" transformed by music into a skittering, phantasmagoric "here and now."†   (source)
  • As an indifference cherished, or left to atrophy, becomes an emptiness, to this extent he had learned to become empty of Nicole, serving her against his will with negations and emotional neglect.†   (source)
  • His scepticism, once his least tolerated quality, has now triumphed so completely that he can no longer assert himself by witty negations, and must, to save himself from cipherdom, find an affirmative position.†   (source)
  • She looked, even as I did, and gave me, with her deep groan of negation, repulsion, compassion—the mixture with her pity of her relief at her exemption—a sense, touching to me even then, that she would have backed me up if she could.†   (source)
  • It negates the efforts of every scientist, statesman, moralist, reformer, doctor, and philosopher that ever gave his life to humanity's service.†   (source)
  • I am a sort of negation of it.†   (source)
  • But when winter shut down on Starkfield and the village lay under a sheet of snow perpetually renewed from the pale skies, I began to see what life there-or rather its negation-must have been in Ethan Frome's young manhood.†   (source)
  • So complete was their negation of interest in anything which seemed directly or indirectly a part of our everyday life that their sense of hearing—which had gradually come to understand its own futility when the tone of the conversation, at the dinner-table, became frivolous or merely mundane, without the two old ladies' being able to guide it back to the topic dear to themselves—would leave its receptive channels unemployed, so effectively that they were actually becoming atrophied.†   (source)
  • This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.†   (source)
  • 'A negation' is profound talking."†   (source)
  • And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation.†   (source)
  • Here she gave her negations.†   (source)
  • Here, negation and the cult of nihilism—there, the eternal yes and the Spirit's loving inclination toward life!†   (source)
  • Atheism only preaches a negation, but Romanism goes further; it preaches a disfigured, distorted Christ—it preaches Anti-Christ—I assure you, I swear it!†   (source)
  • But does not the very positing of eternity and infinity imply the logical, mathematical negation of things limited and finite, their relative reduction to zero?†   (source)
  • One can say that he consumed one whole week waiting for the return of that single hour every seven days—and waiting means racing ahead, means seeing time and the present not as a gift, but as a barrier, denying and negating their value, vaulting over them in your mind.†   (source)
  • Humankind must be informed that certain effects can be diminished only when one first recognizes their causes and negates them, and that almost all sufferings of the individual are illnesses of the social organism.†   (source)
  • The distance between an amoeba— a pseudopod—and a vertebrate was minor, insignificant in comparison to that between the simplest form of life and inorganic nature, which did not even deserve to be called dead—because death was merely the logical negation of life.†   (source)
  • …stone stairway leading down to it from the ground floor did indeed create the impression of a descent into a basement, this was almost entirely an illusion, the reasons for which were, first, that the ground floor sat rather high, and second, that the whole edifice had been built on a steep, mountainous slope, so that the "basement" rooms faced the front and looked out onto the garden and the valley—a state of affairs countered and negated, as it were, by the effect of the stairway.†   (source)
  • …conceited forbearance that the spirit—or what passed for spirit in this case—extended to its alleged guilty opposite, in the presumption that such "politic" action was necessary, when in truth no such noxious indulgence was required; he could not help castigating a damnable dualistic interpretation of the world that cursed the universe—in particular life itself and its fancied opposite, the spirit: for if the one was evil, then the other, as its pure negation, had to be evil as well.†   (source)
  • …powers of resistance to illness and death, whose defeat by the overwhelming forces of base nature so pained Herr Settembrini, were absolutely alien to litre Naphta; and his method for coping with the deterioration of his body was not sorrow and gloom, but scornful high spirits and an unparalleled aggressiveness, a mania for intellectual doubt, negation, and confusion, all of which severely aggravated the other man's melancholy and daily intensified their intellectual arguments.†   (source)
  • Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself.†   (source)
  • But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the science of negation, and he's ready.†   (source)
  • "Where is the original?" asked Madame de Bellegarde, in a voice which was really a consummate negation of impatience.†   (source)
  • "Never!" cried Mrs. Penniman, who had bethought herself what she should say to Catherine, but was not provided with a line of defence against her brother, so that indignant negation was the only weapon in her hands.†   (source)
  • In the "Palace of Crystal" it is unthinkable; suffering means doubt, negation, and what would be the good of a "palace of crystal" if there could be any doubt about it?†   (source)
  • Before time was, by some decree which I could never make out, I was pre-destined 'to deny' and yet I am genuinely good-hearted and not at all inclined to negation.†   (source)
  • And by those negations, considered along with the affirmative fact of his prodigious bulk and power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though not the most exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.†   (source)
  • It was perhaps this negation in the Doctor which made his neighbors call him hard-headed and dry-witted; conditions of texture which were also held favorable to the storing of judgments connected with drugs.†   (source)
  • A character at unity with itself—that performs what it intends, subdues every counteracting impulse, and has no visions beyond the distinctly possible—is strong by its very negations.†   (source)
  • …willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former days the free-thinker was a man who had been brought up in ideas of religion, law, and morality, and only through conflict and struggle came to free-thought; but now there has sprung up a new type of born free-thinkers who grow up without even having heard of principles of morality or of religion, of the existence of authorities, who grow up directly in ideas of negation in everything, that is to say, savages.†   (source)
  • Assuming the negation to refer only to the victory and not to the lunch, M. de Beausset ventured with respectful jocularity to remark that there is no reason for not having lunch when one can get it.†   (source)
  • For his own part he said to himself that he loved her as tenderly as ever, and could make up his mind to her negations; but—well!†   (source)
  • Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous.†   (source)
  • As for other acquaintances, there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room; human beings, mere men and women, without furniture, without anything to offer you, who have ceased to count as anybody, present an embarrassing negation of reasons for wishing to see them, or of subjects on which to converse with them.†   (source)
  • As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers.†   (source)
  • He would never have been easy to call his action anything else than duty; but in this case, contending motives thrust him back into negations.†   (source)
  • And in any case, even supposing negations which only a morbid distrust could imagine, Fred had always (at that time) his father's pocket as a last resource, so that his assets of hopefulness had a sort of gorgeous superfluity about them.†   (source)
  • In reality, however, she was intensely aware of Lydgate's voice and movements; and her pretty good-tempered air of unconsciousness was a studied negation by which she satisfied her inward opposition to him without compromise of propriety.†   (source)
  • She only shook her head in determined negation, and clenched her teeth as the next pain came.†   (source)
  • For there can be no certainty of the last Conclusion, without a certainty of all those Affirmations and Negations, on which it was grounded, and inferred.†   (source)
  • The restriction in question amounts to what lawyers call a NEGATIVE PREGNANT that is, a NEGATION of one thing, and an AFFIRMANCE of another; a negation of the authority of the States to impose taxes on imports and exports, and an affirmance of their authority to impose them on all other articles.†   (source)
  • That Understanding which is peculiar to man, is the Understanding not onely his will; but his conceptions and thoughts, by the sequell and contexture of the names of things into Affirmations, Negations, and other formes of Speech: And of this kinde of Understanding I shall speak hereafter.†   (source)
  • …Things conceived; as the names of all sorts of Bodies, that work upon the Senses, and leave an Impression in the Imagination: Others are the names of the Imaginations themselves; that is to say, of those Ideas, or mentall Images we have of all things wee see, or remember: And others againe are names of Names; or of different sorts of Speech: As Universall, Plurall, Singular, Negation, True, False, Syllogisme, Interrogation, Promise, Covenant, are the names of certain Forms of Speech.†   (source)
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