All 6 Uses of
positive
in
The Fountainhead
- But Heyer surprised everybody by remembering Keating's name and by greeting him, whenever they met, with a smile of positive recognition.†
Chpt 1.5
- Nothing had happened to him—a happening is a positive reality, and no reality could ever make him helpless; this was some enormous negative—as if everything had been wiped out, leaving a senseless emptiness, faintly indecent because it seemed so ordinary, so unexciting, like murder wearing a homey smile.†
Chpt 3.1
- He was frightening by being so totally undifferentiated; he lacked even the positive distinction of a half-wit.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- She rose, stood before him, and the taut erectness of her body was a sign of life, the life he had missed and begged for, a positive quality of purpose, but the quality of a judge.†
Chpt 3.2
- He had not chosen to resign himself—that would have been a positive decision—it had merely happened and he had let it happen.†
Chpt 4.7
- It was not a positive stand rationally taken; not defiance in the name of a cause of importance; just a fastidious feeling, something pertaining almost to chastity: the hesitation one feels before putting one's foot down into muck.†
Chpt 4.9
Definition:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)