All 9 Uses of
positive
in
Oryx and Crake
- Can't you be positive, just for once? All this negative stuff, this is no good, that's no good, nothing's ever good enough, according to you!
p. 56..7 (definition 1)positive = optimistic or agreeable
- Positive about what? That you've thought up yet another way to rip off a bunch of desperate people?
p. 56..7 (definition 1)
- She must have had some sort of positive emotion about him though.
p. 61..5 (definition 2) *positive = indicating approval or agreement
- Cheer up! Look on the bright side! You've got to think positive!
p. 169..8 (definition 1) *positive = optimistically
- These women would begin to see how fractured he was, they'd want to help him gain perspective on life and access the positive aspects of his own spirituality.
p. 190..2 (definition 3)positive = good or beneficial
- "What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves."
"But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman.
"In a simple order," said the man.
"With encouragement," said the woman. "And a positive attitude."
p. 246..1 (definition 1)positive = optimistic or agreeable
- Such positive slogans.
p. 260..6 (definition 1)
- It would be a generous one, more generous than his length of service warranted, because, let's be frank, his friends at AnooYoo wanted Jimmy to remember them in a positive manner, in his terrific new position.
p. 291..1 (definition 2)positive = indicating approval or agreement
- Oh Jimmy, this is so positive.
p. 308..2 (definition 3) *positive = good or beneficial
Definitions:
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(1) (positive as in: a positive attitude) optimistic (expecting or focusing good things); or agreeable
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(2) (positive as in: positive feedback from my boss) approval or agreement
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(3) (positive as in: had a positive effect) good or beneficial